What kind of painting form is "portrait painting" in painting art?

Portrait painting is a kind of figure painting. Portrait, a kind of figure painting. A picture depicting a character. It can be divided into head portrait, bust, full-length portrait, group portrait and so on. Portraits have been painted in East Asia for a long time. Western portraits developed during the Renaissance. With the development of photography technology, portrait painting has also entered the field of photography. The traditional title of China's figure painting is "vivid" or "portrait". It takes people who exist objectively in real life or history as the object of description, and focuses on depicting the specific appearance characteristics and inner charm of the characters through creative methods such as both form and spirit, so as to achieve the effect of both form and spirit.

"Vivid" or "photo". China's portraits are traditionally called "portraits". Xiao, but does not require a certain theme and plot, the image of a group of several people. It first requires the painter to draw the object accurately, and also has the meaning of one or two portraits of the whole body, which is lifelike. Portrait painting is generally a single half-length portrait, which should depict the spiritual temperament and demeanor of the object. Painting like "Portrait Painting" is a form of painting aimed at a specific person.