Adapted from the novel Painting Soul Pan Chuan by writer Shi Nan. In this work, Gong Li plays a female painter in the Republic of China. This female painter is a sketch of a nude female model.

In the era of feudal thought, she was banned by the old school, and the heroine played by Gong Li had a scene of undressing and practicing painting. Part of the film is Gong Li's works with the largest deductive scale, so Gong Li was controversial after the film was released at that time.

When Gong Li was young, her looks and abilities were recognized, so this work was welcomed by many people at that time. But even if the box office of this work rises all the way, the pictures inside will still be deleted. When it was broadcast on TV, the film was 130 minutes, but it was cut into 90 minutes and 40 minutes were deleted.

This film is excellent in subject matter. It not only presented the life of the legendary female painter Pan to the audience, but also made more people know this patriotic painter who dared to fight for art from the beginning.