The Embodiment Of Popular Culture On The Chinese Current Art

This article mainly explores the beginning and development of the new culture conformation, analysises deeply about the popular culture which gradually dominats the society, while from 1980's the Chinese government carried out reform and opening policy and accordingly the social culture and the art conformation changes a lots. Besides, it also makes some discussion about the effection of the popular culture about Chinese present article development and artists productions.Last the article explains how the popular culture effect the development of modern art and artists.The first chapter studys about the popular culture coming into being in the 1990s' in China and the embodiment of its blossom. The conception popular culture firsts expressed by Germay writer named Johann Gtfried Herder in the late of the 18's century. In the west studys it can be translated as mass cluter.No rigid limit about these conceptions causes mass and different meaning in understanding. Geneally, the popular culture is connect with people. From the history, popular cluture developed with society development, opposed the high-class culture. The reform and opening has changed people's value orientation. As for the new ideology, the adjusted popular culture gradually becomes an important consumable in people's daily life, which filled with all our life space and effects both matter and inspirits.The second chapter discriminates the art form effected by art and popular culture relation .It discusses that the popular culture and art must be reconformed and reconcepted under describing how popular culture effects all kind of society. At the same time, it describes new art form in 1990s in China.The third,forth and fifth chapter is the most important, discusses the effection on art of popular culture. The effection of popular culture on the 1990s' Chinese current artist of different ages embodies the changes of artist's conceptions and exist strategy, generally includes the following aspects:art in 1960s most about collectivism has to face the special spirit culture in 1990s, it concerning the life style and consuming style in the new cultural form, thus to accomplish the effect of consuming culture by means of embezzle and collage to reproduce or replace it, in orde to show itself, which cause art thought called "Hippy Realism" and "Political Borp". Concerning the existence and life style of specific domain and class in the social culture, those artists born in 1970s pay attention to new life style and consume style under the new culture, which brought out by themself. On one hand they irony and animadvert people's philistinism, babbittry and arriviste culture by magnify and copy, on the other hand they embody their spirit rupture in the picture by nearly abusing themself method, mainly in such style as "Gaudy Art" and "Bloom Cruelty". The artists born in 1980s show a cultural form such as the cartoon generation and multi-media art by means of a variety of techniques emerging in the consuming culture such as shadow,appliance,texts,performances and so on.The last chapter is the conclution part, extends the significance of this article. Popular culture attents consuming,and in some degree artists begin to attent market requriement. The market more or less limit the artist's coming on. More and more artists begins to think about how to resolve the relation of pursuing art and market.