Portrait is something that can be recognized by a specific natural person reflected on a certain carrier through sculpture, painting, etc.

Through painting, photography, writing and other artistic means, it is an ornamental modeling work to reproduce the character image of the portrait owner on the material carrier.

Portrait is an artistic representation, which should be fixed on a specific material carrier (such as photographic paper, TV screen, newspapers and magazines, etc.). ) specifically and independently. It is an objective visual image derived from and independent of the portrait owner, which can be dominated, controlled and disposed of by people and has certain property interests. The price of a painting is related to the author, technology and materials.

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China's portraits have a long history, dating back to the Shang Dynasty. During the Six Dynasties, figure painting had a new development, advocating vivid form and paying attention to the depiction of characters' spiritual temperament. The Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties witnessed the great development of figure painting in China. Portrait creation before the Ming and Qing Dynasties was mainly concentrated in the court and the upper class, and there was no large-scale portrait creation between the folk and literati classes.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the continuous development of the economy, people began to turn from outward observation to self-observation, and it became a fashion to take pictures to preserve the truth. From the perspective of social demand, although figure painting is relatively declining, it stands out and shows a vigorous development trend. Portrait painting is no longer limited to the court and clan class, but began to spread among the people, especially in the relatively developed Jiangnan area.

Almost all the portraits of Ming and Qing dynasties collected by Nanjing Museum come from the prosperous and prosperous Jiangnan area. Both portrait painters and the real people depicted in the paintings are related to Jiangnan, which may be related to the changes in the overall economic and cultural atmosphere of Jiangnan society during this period. The rapid rise of commodity economy in Jiangnan in Ming and Qing Dynasties also supported the development of figure painting in Jiangnan and the formation of aesthetic taste under certain conditions.

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