表现藏族题材的绘画作品种类繁多,单从表现语言上概括,目前有三种绘画样式,首先是藏族传统绘画中的唐卡、寺庙壁画,创作者都是藏族人,有家族代代相传的画师,有寺庙里的高僧喇嘛以及民间以手艺为生的艺人;二是藏区主题绘画,从20世纪二三十年代开始兴起,一直延续至今。这类绘画作品迎合了当下社会大众的审美取向,已成为一种主流绘画样式,创作者是具有较多专业知识储备的艺术家,他们中大部分人来自汉地,以及在其带动下的藏区画家;三是当代艺术语境下的架上绘画,使用当代艺术表现语言来诠释藏文化,表现内容同样涉及藏族人的生活、信仰等层面,大多数创作者聚集在拉萨,形成了独特的“西藏群落”。 At present, there are three kinds of painting styles. The first is Thangka in Tibetan traditional painting, the mural painting of temples, the creators of Tibetan paintings are all Tibetan people, the artist who has been handed down from one generation to the next, There are monks and monks in temples and artisans living artisans folk artists. The second is the Tibetan theme painting, which began to flourish in the 1920s and 1930s and continues today. These paintings have catered to the current aesthetic orientation of the general public and have become a mainstream style of painting. The creators are artists with a large reserve of professional knowledge, most of whom come from the Han area and the Tibetan areas under their influence Painter; third, frame painting under the contemporary artistic context, interpreting Tibetan culture by using contemporary artistic expression language, the contents of expression also involve the lives and beliefs of Tibetans, most of the creators gathered in Lhasa to form a unique “Tibetan community ”.