Traditional factors in Chinese Modern Art has been challenged by the dominant western culture and therefore declined, marginalized and even goes to vulgarization. Moreover, the cultural identity of modern arts has been quite vague. The exotic tendency of artistic ideal and the phenomenon without Chinese factors in the contemporary art is unfortunately becoming more and more manifest. It is vital for artists to develop spiritual outlook with Chinese characteristics, take the indigenous culture create factors as their self-conscious choice, and put the traditional Chinese artistic symbol into modern arts. In this way, modern arts and its evaluation system with our own Chinese features can be developed. Time-honored traditional culture, economic globalization, cultural diversity and great changes in modern artistic trends have contributed to our concerns over our realistic existent of art environment. We ought to bring our traditional artistic symbol into modern art and consequently keep our artistic traditions protected and flourish.
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