The Female Images In Fine Arts Works Of The People's Republic Of China (1949-1966)

Seventeen years' fine arts of the People' s Republic of China means the art course between the foundation of the People' Republic of China(1949) and the beginning of the Cultural Revolution (1966). It is an important part of Mao Zedong era' s art and it also leaves a brilliant page on the history of Chinese modern art. In the seventeen years, the social structure and class of china have changed greatly. The women have gained the liberation which they didn' t possess in the past. They come into public domain from family private domain . The concept of the equality of sex has got into everyone' s mind through country' s ideological sphere. The women of health, simple, self-respect and self-confident are the typical examples of the female images in seventeen years' art. These ideas not only become women' s consciousness but also turn into the common aims which the women pursuit. Art works are regarded as the prove of the developing of the history and record the course that the women come into society from family and change the dependency of men into professional women. At last, the thorough liberation of women will reality. So the works' thesis showing the women' s social life are mainly common women in realistic art, hero women in evolutional realistic art and labor women in evolutional realistic art combined with evolutional romantic art. It displays fully Chinese women' s self-respect, self-confident, activity optimism spirits. T hey are no longer as the object of desire in men' s eyes.The thesis uses the basic principles of Marxism, the theory of iconology, the theory of western feminism, the method of femalepsychology and explains the meaning of the female images of seventeen years' art works. It probes into the theories and women' s concepts behind the females images from the point of sex view.We can say the female images of seventeen years' art works prove the liberation of Chinese women and equal rights that they share with men in political , economical, cultural and family life. It shows the political ideal of equality between sexes and the female is denied as a equal and independent sex group under the text "Times is different, men and women are the same. " Although the works in this epoch are not reached the artistic standard it would be because of the limit of the ideological sphere, their inner spirits spread a kind of artistic charm that is not copied by later generations.