Opera Figures in Ink and Wash Scene — Analysis of Guan Liang and Han Yu’s Ink and Wash Opera Figures

In the long history of records, China is a big country, has a complete set of its own cultural system, and these systems will always reveal a subtle connection. The combination of Chinese painting and Chinese opera is enough to reflect the extensive and profound Chinese culture. In the folk tradition, there are a lot of folk art to stage opera characters for the performance of the theme, while opera art has become more and more popular. In the form of painting to describe the opera, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some artists began to use this way to express the opera, but the number is very small and did not form a large scale, and it did not break away from the style of literati painting, resulting in the failure to cause more researchers at the time of the pro-gaze. After the modern society, a group of overseas artists returned, the advanced western humanistic thought into the painting, bold attempt to a variety of painting language performance, the theme of the performance is also more extensive. Mr. Guan Liang’s opera figure painting is a model of this period. He is an explorer who takes opera figures as the main performance theme of painting, and combines his own creative experience to successfully create countless opera figures with different personalities in the performance language of Chinese painting. Finally, he formed his own independent painting style, different from the artistic style of literati painting. After that, more and more painters began to express operas in Chinese paintings. Among them, Han Yu, Gao Made, Lin Fengmian and so on, the works have their own unique spiritual outlook, explored a new path of painting, these excellent works not only from the inheritance of traditional culture, but also reflects the rich and colorful art of today’s era, in the history of Chinese art will leave a glorious page.