工笔人物画的写实性拓展既是工笔画当代性演进的主导趋势,也是中国当下写实性绘画繁盛的一种表现。的确,在当代艺术风靡全球、架上艺术一度被认为终结了的21世纪,中国美术不仅仍然以各类架上艺术为主体,而且写实绘画的火爆,也超出了西方艺术史学者的学术逻辑与判断。譬如,写实油画在中国本土的发展,并未按照西方艺术史的逻辑是从古典写实到现代主义、再至后现代主义的路线进化。在中国当下,古典写实油画具有和当代艺术同等的前驱力度,从而体现了艺术的跨文化移植被注入新的文化基因而再度 The realistic expansion of the mythical figure painting is not only the dominant trend of the modernity of the contemporary painting, but also the thriving performance of realistic painting in China. Indeed, in the 21st century when contemporary art swept the world and art was once considered the end of the world, Chinese art not only continued to focus on the various forms of art on display, but also exploded in the art of realistic painting and beyond the academic logic of Western art historians judgment. For example, the development of realism in China’s native land did not follow the logic of western art history from classical writing to modernism and then to the post-modernism. At the moment in China, classical realistic oil painting has the same precursor to contemporary art, which shows that the cross-cultural transplanting of art is once again infused with new cultural genes