A Collection of Portraits of Court Ladies Throughout Chinese History

Author: Guo Xueshi / Zhang Zikang
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Publish Date: 1998-08-01
Features: Portraits of women in traditional Chinese painting fall under the category of figure painting. However, because they primarily depict female figures and convey the social life of the time through the creation of beautiful and moving images of women, they also communicate specific artistic tastes and aesthetic concepts. Works in this genre possess their own unique characteristics in terms of subject matter, ideological connotation, creative methods, and expressive forms, and their historical trajectory of origin, maturity, evolution, and development does not always align with that of figure painting. As a result, it has become an independent branch of Chinese painting, and the artistic tradition it has formed continues to this day, exerting a significant influence on contemporary Chinese painting, New Year pictures, as well as handicrafts such as ivory carving, jade carving, carved lacquerware, palace lanterns, and filigree inlaid works. Therefore, studying portraits of women is a necessary topic for promoting the traditional culture of our country.