A thinking about oil painting

In one thousand two hundred the Chinese oil painting since local history, and what a canvas system, or oil painting genre, or oil painting style, or oil painting style, really belongs to our own original "version", and has produced a wide range of international influence?

European  Classical oil painting wholesale put no matter, said impressionist or impressionist later, France can be said to be the birthplace of modernist art. After the second world war, the United States was the birthplace of the post-modern art. Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, even Japan, South Korea, also don't fiddle, have launched their own ingenious "version" (such as new performance, ultra avant-garde, new concrete, etc.). The above method, America, Germany, Britain, Italy and other countries of different "version" art, has produced different degree of international influence.

China again we look back a generation of artists, it is in constant learning and using for reference, imitation, transplantation, "pirated" and "new" Europe "version" of modern paintings at the same time, every little bit, slow and rigid writes our own oil painting history. As the year before Mr WenLiPeng at a conference on said, summarized up is a words: "to learn, to learn and to learn." We first have the typical realistic style oil painting (the traditional continues today, such as the early 1980 s, the "scar art", "life flow" art); With the LinFengMian to as a representative of the group after group of "Chinese and western blends together the" modern compromise style oil painting, or tend to abstract doctrine, or tend to expressionism, vary; After liberation, "su shi realism" style paintings and once thriving, developed, has become the mainstream of MingChongYiShi (a style that was once decline down, now has looked up); At the same time, "oil painting nationalization" voice also growing in, in this slogan inspiring, freehand brushwork in traditional  Classical Nude Painting (or yue new enjoyable) style paintings finally got certain development (for example WeiTianLin, the developmental WuDaYu, wu guanzhong, SuTianCi, representatives); In recent years, the style of painting widely popular, but also a lot of talents; Since the reform and opening, "from" the stars painting exhibition "to '85 art trendy, to imitate western modernism and postmodernism art, soon became a younger generation of artists" fashion behavior ", all kinds of socialist (abstract expressionist, socialist, cubism, surrealism, abstract expressionist......) Art is a master of art style of Europe and America many again almost can find them in the domestic imitators and "pirated" works, pushing up holding "new generation art", "playing the world or PoPi realism," "political borp", "pop culture", "the keitch art or yue 'colourful makeup life" art ", and so on, it can be seen as western mainstream art on a platter of and a Chinese "spring rolls" (LiXianTing language). Dare to ask which a genre, and what kind of style and say we own original "Chinese version" oil painting? From the above list only all the facts come to see, my answer is: no. That said, and not to deny the western learning and the necessity of the modern and contemporary art, the more is not to say that want to kill one of the various results, but that should be alert to cause, must introspection.

Need deep reflection of the first point: in a period time, oil painting be mistaken for main is a craft, language problem, and in this respect, European masters is almost unattainable, so they kept to learn, meditate them. This look today, is actually an error. Oil painting is not only a problem craft, also is certainly not just a name but not the "oil" family name. We can't just meet in "to learn, to learn and to learn," "reference, reference, and reference", can no longer blindly follow sb to emulate that is "pirated" western modern, contemporary art of any a socialist, any genre, any a master. Should understand clearly that: the road is blocked. Or rather, road closed already had come to an end.

Need to reflect on the second point: we should go out LinFengMian xu beihong, such as in advance for our pioneers laid "integration", "Chinese and western blends together the" such a "bridge". Because the facts already proof: "integration" or "Chinese and western blends together the" or not can spawn "Chinese version" of any a kind of art, or, at best, is a kind of and gave a trade-off style after grafting. I have referred to them as "international" style of the native "version." Further, to remain in such a "bridge", we can neither beyond the west, also cannot transcend their traditional, "overpass" just "convenient bridge", they can not replace the hard way, to explore the creation of the road, self-improvement and self-reliance road, renewal. Any a national, regional, national art, must keep their differences, must have their own creative "version" art. Only in this way, can the world of art in the forest to win a place really, win the respect, and blended in among them, have wide international influence. Europe and America is already in the mainstream think so, do so. They never go to consider what the "west combined with", "in the west blends together", we naturally and so should want to, to do this. Is it can go to "combination", "with" one hundred years? Farewell xu, forest train of thought, it's about time!

Need deep reflection of a third point: blindly simply emphasize "nationalization". According to the folk art or traditional literati painting (freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting, spring art) model of and methods for developing oil painting, which is above says freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting or yue new enjoyable style paintings (also have a kind of view is "oil painting"), it seems that also produce not out "Chinese version" oil painting. Because blindly follow is simply that "counterpart" their own tradition art, both neither can transcend their traditional art, more can't enter the new vision of contemporary art. The traditional "element" (style, style, the method, the material) can't just follow suit, use only, also must pass a contemporary perspective filter, the transformation, the transfer and beyond, to make them to "resurrection" in contemporary art on the body.
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