黄慎是历史有名的“扬州八怪”之一,他擅长人物画,既能工,又能写。他的写意人物画题材广泛,多反映现实生活,,生动传神,所画内容对贫苦劳动者寄予了深深的怜悯之情。以草书入画,草书线条打破了古代人物画家的那种过于工整、挺拔之形态,而是有节奏、有韵律,时而舒展,时而顿挫。开写意人物之新风,使其人物画面貌焕然一新,给当时已呈衰微败势的人物画坛,注入了新的生机和活力。黄慎的艺术,开启了现代写意人物画之新河。 Huang Shen is one of the famous historic “Yangzhou Baicai ”, he is good at character painting, both workers, but also to write. His freehand portraits draw a wide range of themes, which reflect the real life and vividly express his feelings. The content of the painting places deep pity on the poor laborers. To cursive into the painting, cursive lines broke the ancient figure painter that over-neat, upright form, but rhythm, rhythm, sometimes stretch, sometimes frustrated. Open the novelty of the novel, making the appearance of her character a new look, which gave a new vitality and vitality to the figure-painting scene which had been declining at that time. Huang Shen’s art has opened the new river of modern portrait painting.