Oil Painting Art On Luo Zhongli

As an important figure of China's contemporary art history, Luo Zhongli, has made tremendous contributions to the oil painting development of China. In the 80s of last century, he and other oil painters with Cheng Danqin had opened a new field for the oil painting of China, which leading a new era of art. Mr Luo Zhongli's art style has gone through two develop stages: the first stage was the style of local realism from the beginning of 80s to the beginning of 90s in the last century; the other stage has last till now from the end of 80s , which indicates the style of the original expressionistic."Father"is the masterpiece of his early painting style; it used the monumental composition, super-artistic realism, which demonstrates the typical image of Chinese farmers. It was a serious shock for the audience, has made a huge influence for the country, meanwhile, it had laid Mr Luo Zhongli's position in the art history. Since"Home of paintings", Luo Zhongli's painting style begun to change, it has gradually abandoned the character of theme and typical, and replaced as the tendency of'life flow', the artistic expression had gone through from the character of realism to performance step by step, the character's modeling had become Symbolic, To the early 90s of last century, this style has been fully matured, which presented a unique personal expression。The antipathy of modern industrial civilization and exclusion, the attachment and beautify on the agricultural civilization, were the prominent features of Luo Zhongli's second phase work, The"Daba Mountain"that Luo Zhongli has showed to us is the piece of Harmonious, peaceful, simple, pure and flexible, the original realm that away from the hustle and bustle secular world, it was a Idealized world of high aesthetic. In his work, with full of affection it had described the graceful and harmony human nature with healthy and simplicity, which in the agricultural society that full of original meaning. It has sufficiently demonstrated the thinking of "Unity of heaven and man"of the Chinese traditional culture, has strongly assumed the character of Primitivism. By describe the Utopian local cultural landscape that has a certain distance with the industrial civilization and urban culture, the aim is to remind and warn people to reflectively think the industrial civilization, thus it contrast the drawbacks of business consumer society, and by this action to achieve the purpose of criticism, which includes the questioning of the human values orientation and ultimate concern as well. Luo Zhongli's works, that with the contemporary cultural values and critical consciousness, have the significant meaning of common sense that beyond the Ethnic and geographical.