The Realistical Meaning Of Classicism Oil Painting

Along with the gradual quickening of social development, while economy develops swiftly, people's spiritual thought has also had the profound change, and the general populace in spiritual aspects, value orientation and so on are also changing rapidly. Because of western modern culture's turbulent entry, in the drawing region of art, one-sided counter-tradition trend of the partial cultural radicalists is day by day serious .While they advocate vigorously experimental art as western modern prior art, yet they deny the western traditional oil painting's contemporary value and criticize that the extension of classicism oil painting is not only one traditional art flow and the ossified cavity, but also one kind of decadent and decayed artistic style. As an oil painting art researcher, I feel deeply this viewpoint extreme and one - sided. Through continual oil painting practice, I realize : the classicism oil painting is not obsolete ;its combining connotation of ideal and harmony expresses modern people's spiritual pursuit and can meet the need of some important aspects of modern people's spiritual demand . At the contemporary fast - developing social time, the classicism oil painting will not decline and decay. Instead, it will play a more and more important role in people's everyday spiritual demand and soul purification.This article begins from the meaning of classicism, uses a method combining theoretical clarification and specific works analysis to discuss the present situation of classicism oil painting in China. It emphasizes on the core connotation of classicism oil painting -idealism and harmony to clarify the common points of Chinese and western classicism drawings. In addition, accounting for the present social condition, it mainly argues the realistical meaning of classicism oil painting from the aspect of spirit.This article mainly includes four parts:The first part: It clarifies the basic concept of classicism and classicism oil painting. The classicism refers to historical tradition or aesthetic viewpoint based on the ancient Greek and ancient Roman art. When used to explain the historic tradition, it refers to ancient art or the later art influenced by it. The classicism oil painting is a perfect and whole typical example which is set in classical spirit and pursues the expressive style of ideal and harmony.The second part: It clarifies the present situation of classicism oil painting in China. Firstly it simplifies the background knowledge after the classicism oil painting has been introduced into China: gradual reception by Chinese people and the painstaking research of Chinese oil painters on studying of western oil painting. Secondly through the analysis of representative painters and their works, it combs the classicism oil painting in China's development vein and the present situation; since the reform and open policy, cultual radicals have rebelled against the Chinese traditional culture. The artistic development presents the multiple patterns. The entire fine arts are in traditional and modern struggle intersection. Under the rigid pursuit of Chinese oil painters, it forms an oil painting group with Chinese style and large quantities of master pieces.The third part: It argues that "idealism" and "harmony" are the common connotations of eastern and western classical art through a combining method of theoretical clarification and specific works analysis. Idealism collects lofty and exquisite and is the aesthetic standard which eastern and western classical arts have in common. Harmony principle is the basic one which the eastern and western classical aesthetics altogether have.The fourth part: It discusses the realistic meaning of classicism oil painting. Firstly it analyzes that the contemporary social spirtitual crisis is caused by the social transition over about one hundred years and western modern art attack. Through theoretical clarification and specific analysis of some representative works, it discusses that traditional culture embraces a role of integating the social spirits. The spiritual connotation of classicism oil painting can meet the modern people's spiritual demand and it is the good medicine of treating spiritual crisis. Secondly it discusses the necessity of constructing a harmonious society. Through theoretical classification and specific analysis of some representative works, it indicates that the spiritual connotation of classicism oil painting can cultivate people's loft taste and promote the national whole quality enhancement and is helpful in constructing a harmonious society.