New China "Seventeen Years" (1949-1966) Research On Industrial Theme Oil Painting

"Seventeen years" in New China refers to a specific time concept from the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966,with political,cultural,economic and other meanings.In literary and artistic creation,it refers to the stage of all-round development of Chinese socialist new literature and art.The "seventeen years" of industrial oil painting in New China came into being along with the propaganda needs of national socialist industrial construction.Under specific historical conditions,under the advocacy of specific artistic requirements and artistic functions,it formed a unique artistic form,which has written a strong and heavy brush stroke in the history of Chinese oil painting and exerted a non-negligible influence on the development of Chinese oil painting.For the research of artistic creation in the "17 years(1949-1966)" of New China,it is not enough to simply grasp the historical context of its development.How to clear a clue from the complicated theoretical criticism and make systematic and in-depth comments on its artistic presentation,its key and difficult point is that we must choose an appropriate starting point and foothold.The starting point of this paper is the concept of "industrial theme oil painting".This choice is based on two kinds of logical thinking: First,the vigorous development of Chinese industry after the founding of the People’s Republic of China gave birth to the unique expression of industrial paintings.As an important part of realistic painting,industrial oil painting serves as a mission to record the history of industrial construction and people’s production and life,as well as to show people’s life and aesthetic fashion in an era.It is not only the epitome of social and national ideology,but also reflects the dependent relationship between art and politics and economy.Secondly,through the use of literature research,field investigation,historical research,formal analysis and other research methods,clarify the historical background of the rise of industrial oil paintings in the seventeen years,extract typical industrial oil paintings from the seventeen years of art works for analysis,through the interpretation of their artistic content,creation form and narrative mode and other specific visual presentation forms.It is helpful to explore the value and significance of New China’s17 years of industrial theme oil painting.From the perspective of modernity reconstruction,this paper reflects on the gains,losses and value of "seventeen years" industrial oil painting.After the founding of New China,artists participated in the construction of New Chinese art with full enthusiasm.Under the influence of national politics and mainstream ideology,they developed and constructed a new set of cognitive evaluation and aesthetic expression system."Seventeen years" industrial theme oil painting as the early exploration of new China art,its advantages and disadvantages are very obvious."Seventeen years" artists firmly grasp the country’s propaganda needs for industrial construction,through the propaganda and education function of oil painting,encourage people to participate in the construction,promote the speed of national industrial construction,but the seventeen years of oil painting in the development process is gradually restricted by national policies,politics gradually dominated the artist’s creation.The industrial theme oil painting gradually presents the characteristics of "stylization" and "conceptualization",hindering the development law of art itself.If we want to systematically explain the value meaning of the 17 years of industrial theme oil painting,we must jump out of the traditional thinking pattern,abandon the evaluation idea of either left or right,and make an objective and differentiated evaluation of the value meaning of the 17 years of industrial theme oil painting from the three dimensions of society,history and art ontology.The modern reconstruction of the value meaning of the 17 years of industrial theme oil painting not only has important empirical guiding value for the current cultural research and art research,but also is an effective supplement to the 17 years of art creation research.Finally,from the two perspectives of creation mode and aesthetic form,this paper further explores the deep correlation between "Seventeen years" industrial theme oil painting and modern and contemporary industrial theme oil painting.The development of industrial oil painting in the "seventeen years" of New China is not only a paean to the labor and courage of the people in an era,but also carries the emotional memory of a generation.Moreover,it has left precious historical experience and guiding value for the theme art creation of the current new era.