Lin Fengmian’s Portrait of a Lady: The Influence of Western Art and the Reformation of Chinese Tradition
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.160How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Lin Fengmian; The Portrait of a Lady; drawing style
- Abstract
From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, many artists appeared along with Shanghai. Some learned paintings in China while were studying abroad, like in Paris or Japan. All these artists want to mix Chinese traditional objects with Western painting techniques well. By using a bright color, Lin Fengmian might be the representative artist of it. Later in his life, he was more willing to paint the Portrait of the Woman, and also, there are rarely some findings of the subject matter in the image. Many other objects can be painted, like landscape or still-life. It is deserved to discuss why he chose to paint the Portrait of the Lady. To begin with, for the landscape paintings, the objects in the picture, like mountains, trees, and tiny houses, are not close enough to investigate, while the lady sits face to face with the audience. Also, it was just using the western drawing techniques Lin learned from France to build up the scenario, which is very common to see in traditional Chinese paintings. Little distance between the observer and the object can focus on the light, texture of clothing, and hairstyle. A closer look, audiences can recognize the influence of the different schools of painting from his description. This article will get a closer look at the picture to get a complete idea about the objects in it and the influence he accepted, even about the reformation of the Chinese drawing style.
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TY - CONF AU - Enyu Cui PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/28 TI - Lin Fengmian’s Portrait of a Lady: The Influence of Western Art and the Reformation of Chinese Tradition BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 849 EP - 852 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220110.160 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.160 ID - Cui2022 ER -