Reconstructing Reality:The Common Enlightenment Of Giorgio Morandi And Avigdor Arikha's Figurative Expression Paintings

In the splendid western art history of 20 th century,figurative expression painting is not an art style or genre explicitly proposed,but there is no doubt that an important force was formed by a group of painters with a combination of figurative and expressive features that originated in Cezanne in the 20 th century art.Such works between the abstract and the realistic are not to recreate the objective world as the traditional painting did,nor to explain nature purely from the inner conception like the abstract painting,but to perceive questions by treating the reality as a pure visual perception.Although this style of art looks ordinary and trivial both in formal terms and in content,it actually contains profound thoughts and philosophies,such as the thinking of visual viewing,perceptual experience,the nature of the image and the reality.Giorgio Morandi and Avigdor Arikha in different spatio-temporal areas actually represent two stages of the development of figurative painting in the 20 th century.Although there is a certain difference in the content of their works,both in formal language and in content,but they have great similarities in artistic thought,such as their direct or indirect relationship with phenomenology.Under the impact of contemporary art,figurative painting faces the dilemma and crisis of development due to the limitations of the media.Therefore,studying Morandi and Arikha's thinking on the nature of viewing and drawing is of great significance for the development of figurative painting in China at present.This thesis is divided into three parts: introduction,text and conclusion,of which the text consists of five chapters.The first chapter is a detailed account of Morandi and Arikha's artistic life,combing their stages of artistic development in the context of the times.On the basis of this,the second chapter analyzes the typical formal language features of Morandi and Arikha's figurative expression paintings respectively,such as Morandi's "horizon and plane","single perspective and multiple perspectives","overlapping and infiltration",and Arikha's "planarization and fragmentation","chattering and mobility","sketching and once completed".Therefore,the third chapter analyzes the texts consisting of interviews on Morandi and Arikha,and painters' writings from the perspective of "representation and depiction","vision and perception","reality and truth",to refine their core ideas about figurative expression painting.Considering the direct or indirect relationship between Morandi and Arikha and phenomenological thinking,the fourth chapter examines their art in the context of phenomenology.The fifth chapter is an overview of the meanings of Morandi and Arikha's figurative expression paintings,Since the object of reality is always in the evolution of phenomenology,the meaning of painting will never be exhausted,which is also the important revelation to the development of figurative painting in China at present.