Fine Brush Line Drawing Character Painting Manual -- Beauties

Author: Wen Shuqiang
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
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Ladies Painting: Ladies, ancient palace maids. Ladies painting refers to figure paintings that primarily depict beautiful women. It originated as early as the Warring States period. Tang Dynasty scholar Zhang Yanyuan's Records of Famous Paintings of Past Generationss: "San Jun was a skilled painter. The wife of the Prince of Qi, who resided in the Nine Layers Terrace, summoned San Jun to paint. San Jun was unable to return home for a long time and missed his wife, so he painted his wife standing opposite him. The Prince of Qi learned that San Jun's wife was named Jiang and gave him a million coins in exchange for her." Among ancient paintings, works such as Tang Zhou Kuang's Autumn Wind and Silk Fan and Palace-Attired Ladies, as well as Qing Dynasty Gai Qi's One Hundred Beauties, are all treasures of ladies painting. The characteristics of ladies painting mostly rely on meticulous brushwork and rich colors, with a strong decorative quality. Ladies painting has undergone thousands of years of development in China's art history, standing as an independent category in traditional Chinese painting. It carries strong national characteristics and reflects the Eastern perception of female beauty and its evolution. This book is the Ladies Painting section of the Meticulous Brushwork and Line Drawing Character Painting Collection. It includes an overview of meticulous brushwork ladies painting, step-by-step illustrations of meticulous brushwork ladies painting, a general introduction to traditional ladies painting, and a large number of meticulous line-drawn ladies painting illustrations.