称刘斯奋的人物画为“现代文人画”，并不只是就他的作品风格而言，更多地是指作为一个画家的生存状态。就作品的风格而言，画家强调诗、书、画结合，在信笔挥洒的同时，还借助了书法与诗词本身的表现力。而这三个方面，正是构成文人画形式特征的基本要素。就画家的生存状态而 Calling Liu Shaofen’s portraits as “modern literati paintings” does not mean, in terms of his style of works, more about the state of being as an artist. As far as the style of the work is concerned, the painter emphasizes the combination of poetry, calligraphy and painting. At the same time as he devotes himself to calligraphy, he also draws on the expressiveness of calligraphy and poetry. However, these three aspects constitute the basic elements of the formal characteristics of literati painting. On the artist’s state of existence