On the Influence of Western Expressionism on Contemporary Freehand Figure Painting

Abstract

Since modern times, China opened the opening door to the outside world, various Western-style ideas were introduced into our country. Infl uenced by western foreign ideas, Chinese painting is also facing the problem of transformation. Western painting emphasizes the use of painting techniques. In the process of mutual infl uence between Chinese and Western painting ideas, the knowledge and principles related to body structure, perspective relations and anatomy have also been deeply integrated into the expression techniques of Chinese painting, and promoted Chinese fi gure painting to take a crucial step. Therefore, this article is completed after a comprehensive investigation and research, combined with the specifi c connotation of Western expressionism, analysis of its infl uence on contemporary freehand fi gure painting.