Exhibition And Transmission:Research On The Features Of Art Exhibition During The Perid Of The Republic Of China(1911-1949)

Since the early20th, Art Exhibition is rising in China and it was blooming during the former interim of Republic of China till stable development in late Republic of China which leads Chinese modern art exhibition and dissemination into a fully opened system and art exhibition become a very important media and carrier of the communication among artistic concepts, artworks and ideological trend. The emergence and development of Art Exhibition has changed people’s socio-cultural psychology and expanded the propagation path and exchange space of culture and arts. It has also promoted the initiatively transformation of Chinese traditional culture, mutual exchanges between Chinese and Western Art and the progress of modernization of Chinese Art. However the academic circles of art history do not pay enough attention to Art Exhibition and the researches were mostly limited to the history of modern art exhibition. Fundamental characteristics and inherent laws of Art Exhibition during the Republic of China haven’t been studied comprehensive, systematically and deeply and social function and role in history of it hasn’t been affirmed and recognized as it deserved.This article differentiates and analyzes in exhibition and transmission which were two core vocabulary contained by the Art Exhibition during the Republic of China. I analyzed and researched qualitatively on the whole period of Republic of China on the basis of quantitative analysis on kinds of art exhibition after I collect, arrange and analyze papers, periodicals, books and profiles deeply based on current researches. When I break the boundary of time and breakthrough the multiple forms, finally, I summarized the Four Features of Art Exhibition during the Republic of China which are instructive, modernity, welfare and marketability. On the first part, I’ll discuss instructive feature on various aspects such as elementary education of modern aesthetic taste among ordinary people caused by body art exhibition, art exhibition of aesthetic education and patriotic education which were realized from school children to art college even ordinary people, the Performance Art Exhibition and Society Art Exhibition which lead to the development of Art disciplines. On the second part, I’ll elaborate the modernity feature of Art Exhibition such as art exhibition presented itself in the form of modern, the rise of modern art paintings and Western Thought and modern transformation of Chinese and Western painting. On the third part, I’ll explain the welfare feature of Art Exhibition through those art exhibitions purpose on relief and rescue, helping the vulnerable and Japanese national salvation. Finally, I’ll present the marketability of Art Exhibition by explaining elements of art market such as art production, artwork pricing, art trade, artwork consumption and relationship among them. I profoundly reveal the Fundamental characteristics and inherent laws of Art Exhibition during the Republic of China, its historical responsibility in the process of modernization of Chinese art and the significant historical role of promoting Modernization and constantly changing of Modern Chinese Art through my study on the features of Art Exhibition during the Republic of China systematically and deeply.