Analysis Of The Oil Painting Development At The Market In Shanghai Since 1980s'

As an important kind of art, the oil painting possesses the quality of commodity. If an oil painting enters a market, its art worthiness will be necessarily influenced by the market.The whole development of oil painting market in Shanghai during the 20th century can be divided four stages. The first is initial cultivation and formation before liberation, second is atrophy from 1950s'-1970s', third is recovery during 1980s' and forth is rising during 1990s'. As the time enters in the 21l century, the oil painting market in Shanghai becomes booming. Many galleries with professional level are coming forth. Public sale business and art exposition are also rising. The rising and booming oil painting market push the advancement of oil painting art and pullulation of some distinguished young and middle-aged artists in Shanghai.However, the oil painting market in Shanghai is still in the course of initial development. During the developing course, the market has to face some problems which should be overcome and resolved. These problems include cultivating of a certain size of painter team with highly professional level, settling and piloting of the purchaser team, further cultivating of the market which is a multiply structure composed of gallery, salesroom, art exposition, network market, etc, normatively operating and guiding under government policy of the market and settling benign correlation between the purchaser and seller at the market.As a whole, in spite of the existence of the above problems, on the one hand, the oil painting market will obtain further development by overcoming the problems via the special background of history and culture, market connotation and leading position of economy in China. On the other hand, the developing of market will more effectively push the progress of oil painting art.