Perspective And Indicate

Chinese society has started their long journey of modernization since the beginning of the Westernization Movement.Situational evolution renewed the artists' cultural perspective.Especially female artist keenly perceived the social and cultural alienation and showed in their own works as more vulnerable roles in the society.Pan Yuliang who lived in the period of modern transforming in China and had a special experience, became a typical representative of female artists.On the one hand,for her unstable knowledge structure,she had been a specific type of western arts and culture import.On the other hand,she has become an extremely complex body of contradictions because of her own specificity.Therefore,she has the research value as a typical issue of the period of change.This paper adopts case study pattern,drawing on the feminism arts history research approach that converted the arts issues into cultural issues.By means of illuminating Pan Yuliang's pictures and combining all her life experience,the paper unscrambled her gender awareness and investigated the social cultural origin to form her special mentality. After sorting the development of Chinese gender notion,the paper concludes:The age which Pan Yuliang lived was a period of Chinese social structure reconsolidation to modernity.At this point,the bandage on women shift itselfe from body to mind, appearance and emerged with a civilized and moderate mask.Pan Yuliang's weakness and contradiction was a consequence of the weakness of the overall social and cultural alienation in special historical period.