Study On The Youth Theme Of Chinese Neoclassical Painting In Reform And Opening

The Youth Theme of Chinese Neoclassical Painting is a kind of practical painting based onacademism which becomes prevalent with reform and opening. It reflects the artistic qualities ofthe painting by western classical painting techniques, pure oil painting language. Meanwhile itshapes the youth theme, mainly for the young generation, with traditional art ideas. Theneoclassicists try expressing marrow of traditional culture and lofty art ideas via external andspiritual level, and building humanistic spirit with expressing beauty to sublimate humane beautyto ideal beauty.The neoclassicist was gradually formed in the process of people’s continuing expanding inhumanistic spirit and culture in1980s and1990s of China. The Youth Theme of ChineseNeoclassical Painting dispels youthfulness, heroism, and narrative narrow in painting since1949.It also shapes the image and better qualities of human nature, mainly for the awareness of thepublic appreciation. Nowadays, neoclassic artists have a richer understanding of “Youth” andbroaden their visions of art creation. They explore the spiritual and external beauty of peoplefrom figure shaping, living environment and internal world of people. After reforming andopening to outside, the art circles represent a diversiform situation. Some paintings of youth areaesthetic expression, while some excessively deviate from the basic qualities of the people, suchas violence, bloodiness, indifference and other uneasiness of people. A few works break awayfrom reality and distort spirit, existence of human beings, which great shock the public. In suchkind of painting situation, the living conditions and spiritual belief of humanity are facing a hugecrisis. However, the Youth Theme of Chinese Neoclassical Painting, reflecting humanistic ideas,becomes a rare freshener in modern material word. There is no doubt that to hold and inherit theculture and lofty spirit by means of rational perspective in value of contemporary humanexistence, no matter in the game of modern or tradition, west or east, betray or persist. And it isthe most important mission for today’s artists since the reform and opening.This paper studies youth neoclassical painting based on the following four aspects. First, the goal and content of youth neoclassical painting are included, stating what are youth, youthneoclassical painting in1980s of China and in western art history, and introducing the scale ofthis kind of painting. Second, to study the foundation of the appearance and development of thissort of painting, relating the studying subjects and the time closely. And this paper also analyzesthe historical background and current situation in order to provide the theory for the existence ofart. Third, explore the characteristics of this kind of painting with some typical works inphilosophy, and find the relationship between internal and external world of people. Fourth,study the values of neoclassical painting of youth for Chinese social culture and spirit and theacademic value and profound influence for Chinese current art.Words follow the times. The Youth Theme of Chinese Neoclassical broadens the distinctivecultural horizon of Chinese human. Its existence and development is bound to follow the pulse ofthe times and constantly moving.