人物画,顾名思议,必须以人物形象为表现对象,而这个人物形象又必然涉及被表现人物的阅历、性格、思想乃至行为。因此人物画的创作除了人物造型和笔墨技巧的难度,人物画家还得深入到被表现人物的内心世界,与其共同体验人生与心灵的历程。从这个意义上,人物画家比花鸟,山水画家更具有批判现实的作用。当然,艺术语言本身也渗透着时代的信息,但人物画是中国画时代精神最直接而深刻的反映是勿庸辩白的。问题是,当下的人物画更多的成为“静物画”,人体被“物化”,除 Figures and paintings, as their name suggests, must be based on the character image of the object, and this character image necessarily involves the experience of the character, character, thought and even behavior. Therefore, in addition to the difficulty of character modeling and pen-and-ink skills, the figure painter has to go deep into the inner world of the represented person and experience the life and soul together. In this sense, the figure painter has a more critical practical role than the flowers and birds and landscape painters. Of course, the art language itself infiltrates the information of the times. However, figure painting is the most direct and profound reflection of the spirit of the Chinese painting. The problem is, the current portrait painting more become “still life”, the body is “materialized”, except