Create the Image•Portray the Appearance

We can get a taste from the figures of ladies, literati, and immortals created by Qi Baishi, Pu Ru.Zhang Daqian, Huang Junbi, Hang Zhiying, Xie Zhiliu, Fu Baoshi, Xu Yansun, Huang Qiuyuan, Xu Beihong and Lin Fengmian.

To achieve "similarity,”one has to gain a rich understanding and experience of the real conditions as well as the spiritual world of people living in the targeted society. This has been well indicated in the human body sketches and human figures of Xu Beihong, Fang Junbi, Zhang Qianying, Pan Yuliang, Fei Yifu, Sun Zongwei, Wang Jiyuan, Feng Fasi, Luo Gongliu, Zheng Yefu, Zhao Yannian, Li Zongjin, Huang Yanghun, and Ha Ding.

Interestingly, there has been an increasing tendency among mainstream artists in the West in modern days to step away from objective authenticity since the twentieth century. The images created by artists like Wu Dayu have demonstrated the influence brought by such a change. In the modern Chinese context, where art tended to be more and more associated with "the realization of enlightenment and the promotion of ethics and morality" in the hope to "save the nation" and "serve the people,”third-person narration that tended to stress and incorporate objective authenticity gradually became mainstream in the narration of Chinese culture in the twentieth century. This can be proved by a great number of portraits and self-portraits in this module.