Research And Analysis Of Japanese Contemporary Painting

Japan's history of more than one hundred years of painting almost keeps up with the development of Western art history.It has followed the academicism,impressionism, modernism,and abstractionism in Europe and the United States,pop and even postmodernism oil paintings.This just liked the other aspects such as economy,culture, and architecture and so on.From Japan's Meiji era(1893),the Japanese advanced wave upon wave to absorb the essence of Western art greedily,with an open mind and passion.It can be said that it is their passion and humility let them blend the traditional and Western culture into a warm melting and conflict.However,the most importantly, they faced criticism for a number of reforms and experiments,combined the best of East and West.After nearly a hundred years of development,Japanese contemporary paintings has formed its own set of national characteristics oil system.This article analyzes their introduction,and development tracks as well as the vicissitudes systematically,with details and based on rich materials.It introduces the new ideas from the west,all kinds of social mechanisms which had supported the development of Japanese arts,and the social links,one of the very essential roles in the painting development.The author explores deeply the mental element in the attitudes of accepting the foreign culture and methods.He tries to sort out and at the same time provides the readers more clearly context of modern paintings as well as the realistic states.We can see that he also has the ambitions to analyze the various pros and cons of its underlying causes and to propose their own opinions and thinking objectively.In the current development of the information age,the Western strong culture and a trend of globalization is increasingly eliminating national differences,especially under the crisis that the traditional culture tends to be assimilated,Japan is the first Asian country to take the lead in the modernization.One hundred years ago,it was a bridge for china to learn from the West,today it can still be a mirror for our Chinese to accept and absorb Western culture.Therefore,this paper will definitely contribute to be a positive reference for our Chinese development and improvement in painting arts,as it has made commitment to study and dialyze the success and failure of Japanese contemporary oil paintings,their various confusion and conditions.