He Cheng insists on keeping pace with the times, always pays attention to social life with high-spirited passion, highlights the grasp and excavation of the spiritual temperament and inner personality of the people of the times, and pursues the rich spiritual connotation of figure painting with capitalization, which is in sharp contrast with many "still life paintings" that lack emotion at present. He advocated "beauty of my heart, pleasing my eyes, pleasing my ears, inspiring my soul, strengthening my soul, embracing the times and repaying the people".
Second, borrow the past to open up the present, and suit both refined and popular tastes.
He Cheng once immersed himself in the ocean of China cultural tradition, walked out of the profound painting tradition, skillfully integrated Han Yun, Wu Feng and folk art, carried forward the new beauty and new look of the times, and constructed his own new artistic conception. His military paintings mostly draw lessons from the brushstrokes of landscape paintings, which is vigorous and clumsy. His figure paintings in ancient costumes are mostly due to the connection of traditional "brushwork" flower-and-bird paintings.
Third, androgyny, combining rigidity with softness.
He Cheng grew up in Qilu, studied in Jiangnan, and the culture of North and South merged. In addition, his elegant and bold temperament determines that his paintings are bold, neat and meticulous. His leisure sentence "melting soul and casting courage" is "strong body" (the core of oriental culture), which shows his pursuit of artistic spirit.
Fourth, borrow foreign countries to open China, where color and ink blend.
With his understanding of Chinese and western painting, He Cheng spread his arms (accepting the collision between Chinese and western cultures) and introduced the light, color, point and surface in western painting into his own Chinese painting pen and ink system, advocating that "color is strong without losing its true colors" and "color and ink complement each other, and you have me", thus achieving the realm of "bright ink with color, awakening color with ink, blending Chinese and western, and blending ink and color".
Five, the book into the picture, freehand brushwork vivid.
On the basis of learning, He Cheng also brought elements of calligraphy into painting, so his brushwork has the charm of Gu Zhuo, which is particularly prominent in ancient figure painting. Cursive sketch, distinct thick and thin lines, and distinct black-and-white relationship all strengthen the brushwork and Mo Yun, a unique tool of Chinese painting, so his schema is different from the traditional single-line flat painting and realistic sketch color ink, thus forming a new type of freehand figure painting.