A Brief Analysis Of The Symbol In Contemporary Figurative Realistic Painting

In contemporary figurative realistic painting, the phenomenon of symbolization has already locked people's sight tightly. Symbolization of the image and the language of painting reflect contemporary oil painter's concern about social life, human destiny and philosophical thinking and exploration to them. An artist will find out an image or a language of painting from the reality and shape it, stylize it, to make it a personal symbol or mark. How to find the language of a personal symbol in painting, is a topic that many artists are concerning about.The contemporary figurative realistic painting has differentiated from the traditional realistic painting. Comparatively, it has more identities, for example to express the individual significance and individual worth on purpose, the perspective philosophy and the idea of the painter and so on, which reflect the artistic style of an artist full of honesty and exploration. To deepen this study, through the analysis of the famous figurative realistic painters and their works, will undoubtedly have an important significance as reference, particularly for the development of China's foreign paintings kinds of realistic painting, as well as for the young artists' research and exploration on personal symbol of painting.A mature artist has his own special personal style for sure. Only when a symbolized language of painting, which has already taken a place in people's repository of vision and information, had the artist the chance to walk out from neglect. The symbol of painting won't form itself in one day, nor will it keep the same situation for ever. We couldn't be conservative in the research on painting, we should carefully learn and accurately understand the modern art, absorb the essence of foreign painting and modern painting. However, we couldn't absorb them all. We must on one hand deepen the study of traditional western painting techniques, on the other hand absorb the nutrition from the chinese traditional culture and contemporary art, strengthen the acquaintance with the local culture and foreign culture, so as to find the language of the realistic oil painting with characteristics of the times.