My Opinion on Urban Figure Ink Painting

Abstract

There are skillful and clumsy works, and ancient and modern paintings. Since the development of ink and wash figure painting, there have been many themes of ancient costumes, ethnic minorities, and drama, but there are few themes of urban characters. It seems that there are special reasons for this. Traditional Chinese ink and wash character themes generally focus on ancient costumes, with long and complex clothing patterns. Many Chinese character painters nowadays depict a large number of Tibetan people, dance figures, or new ladies. The characters have long clothing patterns and lines, and their shapes are also closer to traditional ancient costume character costumes. Therefore, it is relatively easy to graft traditional pen and ink programs onto the above-mentioned themes, which is quite lazy in the current innovation of ink characters. In the process of socialization today, urban culture is an important representation of modern culture. If we continue to draw contemporary urban characters in a conservative traditional ink style, it will feel out of place. The theme of urban figures is a major challenge and opportunity in the process of Chinese figure painting. How to use more vivid language to depict urban characters is an important topic that contemporary Chinese character painters need to ponder deeply.