Speaking of the world's painting style, Chinese ink painting can always stand out, unlike the Westerners' realistic style, ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy pay attention to the beauty of the artistic conception, the artistic conception is beautiful and the divine beauty, simply outline a few strokes, lifelike character forms and mountains and rivers jump on the paper. The ancients used brushes to paint and calligraphy, and loved ink painting, whether it was the tranquility of the small bridge flowing water, or the lonely beauty of the Gobi side, or the happiness of the playful children, they could only be depicted with brushes and ink. But if we want to pay attention to the meticulous form realism of the characters, it is still the number of Western genres that are more superior.
In ancient times, Westerners were curious about this magical eastern power. What the form of Chinese life in ancient times has always attracted our descendants. We can only speculate from history books and excavated artifacts, and we do not have a complete understanding of ancient society. Especially for the ancient characters, we have no way to understand, and we can only imagine their external images through historical records.
To say that in ancient times, there were many people who were good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. However, in the ancient imperial palace, there were royal painters, and the painters in the palace were selected after layers of examinations, and the skills were naturally exquisite, but the object of the painter's service was usually the lord of a country, which could casually reveal the paintings, and the portraits of the emperor were mostly artificially beautified, and the authenticity was doubtful.
That is, during the Qing Dynasty, due to the development of the world, the trade exchanges between countries were more frequent than those of previous dynasties, and there were already foreign painters in the imperial palace during the Qing Dynasty, and in the prosperous era created by Qianlong, Westerners were not unusual in the central plains. During Qianlong's reign, he hired an Italian painter named Lang Shining, and it is said that he also quietly painted the "true face" of Qianlong, and the portraits he made also left precious materials for future generations to study.
Qianlong's dynasty was a prosperous one, and relying on the solid foundation laid by his father Yongzheng, he developed the Qing Dynasty to a heyday, when the Qing government was closed to the country, but the domestic development was thriving. Moreover, there is a Western painter in the palace, Qianlong is very appreciative of him, as a Westerner, Lang Shining also used his talent to win Qianlong's love and became his royal painter, and his status is visible and unusual.
Lang Shining's painting style perfectly shows the characteristics of Western realism and button details, and because it is completely different from the Chinese painting style, he also attracted a number of palace concubines to come to him to paint. This Lang Shining has been in the palace for a long time, but also knows the way of survival in the palace, he is not completely the image of the emperor's concubines on the paper, but deliberately avoided some shortcomings, on the basis of realism added a little freehand style, the advantages of the character image magnified, the shortcomings are small, so the portraits are showing a certain spirit, the concubines are also very satisfied.
Lang Shining and Qianlong stayed together for a long time, so he had a very clear understanding of Qianlong's appearance, so he quietly painted a portrait of Qianlong himself, which is also the closest portrait to Qianlong's true appearance in history, and also allowed the world to witness the style of the emperor of ancient feudal society. Many netizens said that the Qianlong Emperor in the painting is very much like a star, that is, Sun Haiying, but everyone's views on this are different. Today, this bust of the Qianlong Emperor is preserved in the Yinchuan Art Museum.