Fu Baoshi's character paintings are mostly related to literary history and allusions, tracing back to the themes of his historical stories, tracing the source of Fu's creative inspiration, And the lofty artistic achievements of Fu Baoshi are not just the cultivation of painting skills, but the crystallization of genius, knowledge, morality, that is, the spirit of all personalities.
Through the detailed examination of the theme of Fu Baoshi's character story paintings, it is believed that Fu Baoshi's love and deep understanding of traditional Chinese culture, and the diligent study and accumulation of art history knowledge are the primary basis for his innovation in the actual painting of characters. There are roughly three ways and means of innovation: old problems come out of new ones, new problems are made by homemade, and new works are made of old topics.
Fu Baoshi's "Lan Ting Tu" Axis Color on Paper 1944
Fu Baoshi "Wash Tong Tu" Axis Color on Paper 1942
Fu Baoshi's "Washing Horses" Horizontal Scroll Color on Paper, 1943 Collection of Nanjing Museum
Fu Baoshi's "Pipa Line" Axis Color on Paper 1944 Collection of Nanjing Museum
Fu Baoshi "Drunken Monk Diagram" Axis Color on Paper 1943
Fu Baoshi's "On the Mountain Vagina" Axis Silk Coloring 1947 Collection of Nanjing Museum
Fu Baoshi "Finding Sentence Diagram" Axis Color on Paper 1942
Fu Baoshi "Ruan Tu" Axis Color on Paper 1940s
Fu Baoshi's "Jin Xian Tu" Axis Color on Paper, 1945, Nanjing Museum Collection
Fu Baoshi "Visiting the Stone Map" Mirror Heart Color on Paper 1941 Fu Family Collection
Fu Baoshi "Handwashing Diagram" Hand-rolled color on paper, 1942
Fu Baoshi "Strike Nguyen Chart" Axis Color on Paper 1947
Fu Baoshi "Imitation of Hashimoto Guan Xue [Shi Le Qing Dao Tu]" Color on paper About 1945 was collected by the Nanjing Museum
Fu Baoshi's Qu Yuan, on paper, colored, collected by the Nanjing Museum in 1942
Fu Baoshi "Lady Xiang" On Paper Color, 1943, Beijing Palace Museum Collection
Fu Baoshi's family at the western suburbs of Chongqing at the "Jingang Slope Down the Mountain" (circa 1942)