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Introduction to portrait 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.