In traditional Chinese figure painting, artist usually prefers black and white to other colors.

Taking into account the social and historical backgrounds and focal debates on Chinese art, this paper points us to the important historical facts during the process of Chinese freehand figure paintings toward modernization, evaluates its theory and practice in the development of its content, forms and skills, and studies the main schools and representative personages in different phases.

The article makes an analysis of the background condition of the modernization of Chinese freehand figure painting from two aspects: the externalrestriction and selfdiscipline of the art s development.

How to teach elementary points about delicate-strokes-portrait shapes? The answer lies in the integration of Chinese freehand brushwork painting with western sketch painting.

This paper carries out an intensive research and comparison from such aspects of conception,modeling,lines,coloring composition and painting style,based on a great deal of excellent ancient and contemporary realistic figure paintings.

Beginning with the all-around observation of traditional Chinese realistic figure paintings of Tang Dynasty, which is the flourishing period of ancient figure paintings, this paper introduces a meditation of modern figure paintings and gives a picture of the original relation between traditional and modern paintings.