Comparisons Of The Changes Between Picasso And Lin Fengmian

This paper analyses thoroughly the inner reasons, differences and common points of the two persons' artistic changes, trying to find the differences in the commons and seeking the commons in the differences in the history situations and from the angle of the Chinese and Western artistic comparison. And the author tries to avoid the speaking of their lives and creations in general terms. Thus we can find some regularities of the artistic creation and expand the thinking for the modern artistic creation.Chapter 1 points out firstly that they two all approve that the artistic creation should show the individuality and the characteristic of time. Then it shows the essential differences between the two people of their spirit seeking from the Chinese and western cultural backgrounds and from the different contexts of the artistic revolutions. Picasso pays attention to the individual and self, while Lin Fengmian concerns the national feelings. This is a thread that runs through all the parts of their artistic creations. Beyond this, chapter 1 also compares the differences between Picasso s anti-tradition and Lin Fengmian s seeking the new from the tradition. This is more convincing. And this is the main part of this essay. On the basis of the content mentioned above, we analyze the difference of Picasso' s rebelling the tradition 'and Lin Fengmian' s innovation by force of the tradition, the difference of Picasso' s innovation in the form and Lin Fengmian s diversification in languages, and the difference of creating practice and esthetic style.Chapter 2 analyses the relation between the emotion process and the artistic creation of the two people from the emotional angle. And this also causes different artistic manners. Picasso's self-indulgent and variant emotions lead to the varieties of feelings of the pictures and the artistic manners, while Lin Fengmian links closely the nation, personal feeling and the artisric creation. He cherishes high ideas and endures humiliation in order to carry out an important mission. And this emotion surelv leads to the sorrowful artistic manner.Chapter 3 discusses the difference between Picasso and Lin Fengmian from the artistic language practice view. Picasso' s completely rebelling the tradition and breakthrough in the aspect of expressing media, penetrating rules, views of modeling and colors expressing induce the modern arts' innovation from view to technique and from form to content; While Lin Fengmian creates the art of modern ink painting, in the aspect of constitutes, colors, themes, artistic conception, tools and lines, innovating in regard of amalgamation. Then this paper analyzes both the similarities of their assimilating the nutrition of artistic languages and the similarities of valuing and mining the folk arts.Undoubtedly, Picasso and Lin Fengmian become the grate masters depending on artistic innovation for deploring a new field. Their courage and insight of opening a new door, the pushing on artistic history, and the influence on afterworld are pervasive and preservative. From the analysis of their creative points in regarding of all kinds of aspects, we understand the different context of Chinese and Western artistic creation more deeply, comprehend the close relation of the spiritual quest, cultural feelings and the evaluation of artistic style, and find out the selection and innovation of artistic languages in the practice of creating works. The three aspects described above have realistic meanings. Therefore we can draw the following conclusions: Innovations will never depart from the traditional marrow, on the other hand, learning from the tradition cannot fetter the innovation. Only do we seek the breakthrough on the ground of inheriting the tradition, innovation can be of more profundity and strength. Artists should deplore the artistic personality in deep soul by means of introspection of ages and individuals. Then artists can grasp the marrow of folk art and carry them forward in the process of contrasting the individuals and the whole world.