明清仕女画的特征

Characteristics of Beauty Painting in the Ming and Qing Dynasty

仕女画发展到明清时期,以一种相对稳定的程式固定下来,塑造了具有病态美的纤弱清秀的女性形象。此类审美倾向风行于整个明清画坛,除陈洪绶、吴昌硕等少数大家能跳出窠臼自创一格,多数画家均以此作为创作导向,遂形成了明清以阴柔、羸弱、幽郁为主要特征的仕女画风。

Developing into the period of the Ming and Qing Dynasty, beauty painting was fixed up in the stable form. it has created an image of slim and fragile woman. This kind of appreciation tendency was popular in the entire painting circles during the period of the Ming and Qing Dynasty. In addition to a few painting masters such as Chen Hongshou, Wu Changshuo who could get rid of constraint and create their own style, most of the painters followed the fashion. Therefore the painting style characterized by tenderness, fragility and melancholy was formed.