Study Of Contemporary Urban Themes Landscape

China is entering into its era of urbanization. City life with abundant commodities has become the major background of cityscape painters. Such circumstances lead to the necessity of depicting the cityscape and the life of themselves. Since late 1970s, people have paid more attention to cityscape as a new theme. Many works reflected current metropolitan prospects and lifestyles, though few related studies have been found. This article discovers many relevant factors of the theme of cityscape painting; further, it emphasizes the importance of inheriting the spiritual pursuit that classical ink and wash landscape paintings usually carry. It is also helpful to learn from western paintings about colors and mindset. Today's cityscape paintings represent realistic aesthetic view that"expression must update with times."It has become an indispensable part of current Chinese cityscape paintings.