The Contemporary Transformation Of Traditional Materials

The contemporary lacquer painting of china comes from thousands of years' traditional lacquer art, which emerges as a distinctive language of art attracting more and more attention through recent years'progress. Lacquer painting as a craft of material bears unique preponderance from other paintings in materials usage. Lacquer painting's own development should be pondered and reconstructed under the new environment of literacy. How can we accomplish the transformation from traditional material of lacquer painting to modern one is the task encountered itself, which also is the main research content of our paper.This article first analyzes current developments and confusions of lacquer material in modern times, researches the exploitation and utilization of lacquer material in the environment of contemporary art, the aesthetic orientation of lacquer material beneath the present-day's ideological trend; How can traditional materials conduct themselves'continuity and conversion in modern times, which includes the definition of painting materials, the selection, the arguments, the "mistake" utilization in traditional painting, the modern development and extension of traditional lacquer painting usage method and categories, explores lacquer painting materials horizontal development, reversal craft and the "devastating" usage, especially new techniques and new materials brought by new science and technology supplement and perfect the contemporary lacquer materials which give the new material more artistic forces, provide more possibilities for painting materials'selection and usage and enrich lacquer materials further. Then beginning with the attitudes to lacquer painting materials'inheritance and acceptance, we investigate lacquer painting materials' contemporary spiritual expression, and excavate the performance under contemporary art environment. Finally we analyze the significance of lacquer painting materials in modern times, which not only broadens lacquer painting's performance space, promotes its development, but also enables lacquer painting and other arts influence and learn from each other through the exploration of painting material.The richness of lacquer painting material makes the media and techniques of lacquer as the main language of art. If we expect lacquer painting to be developed, we should explore and study the materials of lacquer painting firstly, and the contemporary transformation of material language is lacquer painting's developing mission under contemporary language circumstance.