Public Art

Pubic art is a new concept. To Chinese, it's also a foreign concept.The Chinese name public art is directly translated from English. Public art is notonly an issue about art. On the one hand, public character is the precondition. On theother hand, it refers to the social value, urban reform, industrial economy, etc.The theory and practice in the field of public art are starting to develop in ourcountry. To recognize the concept and practice really is just the thing of recent years.It is meeting the period of wide demand and rapid developing likely. The guiding ofthe concept and practice of public art has close relation with our reform and opening.From the classical and inaugurating great fresco of capital international airport inBeijing at the end of 20th century 70's to the concept of public art refered in themiddle or later of the 90's, companying with the great developing of market economyand gradual democratization of political system, the urban process in the present ageand frequent communication internationally, the development of public art seems tobe a current.What's public art? How to face and develop it in our country?Firstly, abundant realizing causes mastering better. This work drops public artinto the background of the present age, referring to the full view of orientation andinternational language environment. On the one hand, the paper takes the concept ofpublic art as an important researching content. On the other hand, because of thewestern countries has developed public art for long time, the work provides referenceby specializing experience and successful cases of the western countries. Secondly,euramerican cases are not sure to be applicable to our country. They must be adjustedand corrected with our experience to avoid to be maladjusted. So the paper has asimple analyse to the contemporary situation about public art in our country.