On The Artistic Value Of The "Prints In Cultural Revolution"

The period of "Cultural Revolution" is always be defined as "The era without art", and the art works produced during the Cultural Revolution were considered as losing the nature of art and aesthetic character, therefore, they are barely referred to in the Chinese art history, and the special study about Great "Cultural Revolution arts" is extremely rare. The trend of studying "Cultural Revolution" is becoming obvious in the recent years, so some attentions and ponder appeared in the art circle around "Arts in cultural revolution". However, there still seems to be no any research on "Prints in Cultural Revolution", which is one of the very important forms of arts in that period. It revealed the specific ideology in that special period of time, thus, just like "Prints in the war of resistence", it not only displayed the cultural tendency of prints in a special history, but also played a vital role then."Prints in Cultural Revolution" are called "The prints in explosion time", During Cultural Revolution, Print, with its inherent edge in convenience and duplication, firstly fueled the extreme God-making movement and propagandized the absurd history with its vivid skill and strong color. It was indeed in this anfractuous clamor involving art and politics, human and society, print had been widely spread.The expressive language of print is more abundant and extensive. Print itself also improves reasonably in various constructing elements such as idea of plastic, expression of color and mentality of vision. The diversification of expressive means broadens print's perspective of production and the extension of expressed subjects brings forward higher requirement in terms of technique and art. Therefore, "Print of Cultural Revolution" has already formed a new value system. This essay is mainly focused on the discovery and research of the value system and the revelation of the value. This essay is based on the contemporary history of art, using the theory of structure, in order to find and reveal the intrinsic logic relationship between things through the enumeration and statement of phenomena. The first argument of this essay is the discovery of the value system of "Prints of Cultural Revolution", concentrating on the intrinsic value of "Prints in Cultural Revolution" as a form of art work, that is to say, the art value. The second argument of this essay is the discovery of the value of prints in cultural revolution as a kind of art activity, on the one hand, it embodies in the influence of "Prints in the Cultural Revolution" upon "Arts in Cultural Revolution", to be more specific, the revelation of value in aspects of social influence, cultural promotion and penetration of civilization. On the other hand, it embodies in the actual significance of "Prints in Cultural Revolution" for contemporary art, in other words, the influence upon contemporary Chinese prints and art market.