Contemporary Chinese Public Art’s Situation; Issues And Solutions

Chinese contemporary public art is a complicated conception, it involves with daily life by using kinds of methods to express the artists’ idea about society. Chinese contemporary public art should design on the universal publicity and public opinion; it conveys public spirits through art and safeguards the people’s right by institutional improvement.The paper discusses Chinese contemporary public art completely which starting from time, space and spirituality, it tries to solve the problem what is Chinese contemporary public art by analyzing history, constitutional rules and spirituality. The author points out its trend from art works to art events and from city to village, he thinks that Chinese contemporary public art is changing from expression of mainstream value, public emotion and experience of playing art to spirituality which is people oriented.Public life in Chinese contemporary society is on the turning point during the information age, internet changes traditional relations between people. Virtual life has implicated on Chinese contemporary public art, it brings new impossibility to Chinese contemporary public art. New media means that Chinese contemporary public art has a new opportunity to extent to a wider area. The paper analyzes perceptively the trend of Chinese contemporary public art during information age, it makes us known that criterion of Chinese contemporary public art has changed from only the works to exist at the same time between physical substance and artistic action, between virtual space and physical space and new direction of crossing-art with mixed media.Chinese contemporary public art develops slowly because of unbalance elements with inner and external contradiction, the situation shows us the problems of low level clone, absence of art, short life, appropriate public property and political projection. Aim at these, the paper concludes some solutions and criterion from time and space, it raise that Chinese contemporary public art should take the centering on space as direction and time as coordinates. The publicity of Chinese contemporary public art needs to judge by the passing of time, the criterion of it has to give attention to the expression between individual and group, art criticism and public opinion, it should take the public opinion as the final criterion. The paper aims at the fact that contemporary public art lives in our daily life and wants to inspect the validity of Chinese contemporary public art by observing the trend and participating in the practice, by analyzing the cases and interviewing the artists.Chinese contemporary public art will lead an artistic enlightenment in society, the history of Chinese nation determines the specificity of Chinese contemporary public art, while Chinese contemporary public art influent directly or imperceptibly on ideas and aesthetic modes of contemporary Chinese people.