| This thesis focuses on an important period in the history of modern Chinese art:the Seventeen Years of the People’s Republic of China(1949-1966),and an important regional theme for modern art creation: industrial themed paintings in the Northeast region.During this period,the Northeast region held a special historical position for the establishment and development of New China due to its leading industrial development level and scale nationwide.Against the background of the nationwide promotion of modernization and the vigorous development of heavy industry,industrial-themed art in the Northeast region became an important branch of art and played a representative and exemplary role nationwide.This article provides a comprehensive review and analysis of industrial-themed art in the Northeast region during the 17-year period.Chapter One explores the historical and social context of the emergence of industrial-themed art in the Northeast,including the overall economic development path of New China and the industrial development of the Northeast region,the artistic guidance policy and art education in the Northeast,and the creative environment,presenting the macro context of relevant creations during this period.Chapter Two,the article discusses the new meanings and related works of various industrial symbols in the Northeast region,including industrial production departments such as Angang and new worker images,which constitute the main expression theme of industrial art creation in the Northeast during this period.After reviewing the relevant works,backgrounds of different creators and their creative intentions,the article delves into a close reading of representative works using the method of analyzing the internal logic of pictorial language at the micro level,including the influence of Soviet art and art education,folk art,traditional Chinese painting,and how they were specifically learned,transformed,and applied.At the same time,the article also compares the industrial-themed art in the Northeast with that in other regions nationwide during the same period,analyzing the leading role of the Northeast and the regional differences within it.Chapter Three,the article discusses the deeper production mechanisms behind these paintings and images,including how artistic policies and political discourse reshaped the overall image of industry,how the national industrialization demands affected workers’ actual production and life,the relationship between the generation of new worker images and ideological dissemination,and how modern Chinese art in the contemporary era created its own narrative mode.After clarifying these clues,the article explores how the "real" and "symbolic" elements in the images are organically unified and how ideological propaganda incorporated personalized artistic creations into a larger "image system".Finally,the article extends the timeline and further explores the development and changes in industrial-themed art creation in the Northeast after the 17 years,including during the Cultural Revolution and the reform and opening up period to the present day.It reflects on which factors were magnified,rewritten,or even denied later on,and what inspirations and meanings industrial-themed art in the Northeast during the17-year period still holds for the post-industrial era today.Through research,it can be concluded that industrial-themed art creation in the Northeast during the 17 years of New China has an important position and unique visual appearance in the history of Chinese art.It not only reflects the important development of society and economy at that time,but also represents a new node in the intrinsic development of art.In these works,the new voice of the era and the new language of painting interacted with each other,and realism and symbolism were interwoven,becoming the most advanced artistic paradigm at that time,sounding the horn for the development of socialist art in New China. |
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