Research On The 'Cartoon' Phenomenon Of Chinese Current Art

1990s is the new era for china, the foundation of Chinese current art changed a lot. The development of the market economy, the rise of china urban culture, youth culture and constant updating social reality decide the tendency of artists works altogether. From the end of last century to the beginning of this century, people's life largely relies on the digitized science and technology. People's aesthetic is unable to avoid from the imaginary cartoon, the animation, the game and the network transmission which has had the new cognition and the appreciation system. It was separated from the traditional standard by far.The young people who were born in the 1970s and 1980s are the creators of our country urban culture and youth culture. The 'late 70's' artists are the new force in art circle. Under the impact of commodity economy, they have an entirely different attitude from other artists in life and artistic. It manifested that the young artist's life experience, thinking mode and the esthetic experience. In their works, a large number of artists have chosen the cartoon image what that exaggerated a lot and has close relation with their own daily life. They used the cartoon image a great deal by painting, device, and so on. The 'late 70's' artist's 'cartoon art' have the very strong affinity in the contemporaries, it is easily approved, and has the strong visual impact. So it gradually becomes the object of attention from contemporary Chinese artist and critics.'Cartoon generation' and the 'New cartoon generation' phenomenon is a part of the youth culture at present. The 'cartoon' phenomenon is not something new and original, behind this it has profound economy, society, cultural background and complex psychological factor. " They grow under the red flag waving gently, and also penetrated by the 'cool' and material feeling of capitalism" . The 'cartoon art' appearance has close relationship with our country's society reforming, the change of living condition, the change of life style, the lack of tradition and the cultural multiplication, body and mind's development of the young people.The group member of the 'Cartoon generation' are Huang Yihan, Xiang Dingdang (Chen Qiutong), Tian Liusha, Feng Feng, Sun Xiaofeng, Jiang Heng, Su Ruoshan, etc. 'Cartoon generation' art workgroup did one kind of criticism like 'kala OK', with the aid of the popular method and the popular symbol to do the easy and direct criticism. They paid attention to Cartoon generation's existence way and the daily attitude, highlighted the pleasure principle. At the same time, they disclosed that the 'Cartoon generation' have the spiritual barrier of easy to become the copy culture's captive, be short of the activity to enter society and the main body dysphrenia. The forces of 'Cartoon generation' art workgroup changed their political way of talking that is critical, thoughtful and superorganic to true feeling of daily life and culture. Cartoon is proposed as the cultural question in the 'Cartoon generation' art workgroup, The 'Cartoon generation' is the art direction as a social problem.The 'New cartoon generation' art trend recent, it is the development and progress of 'cartoon' phenomenon. The painter who was considered the 'New cartoon generation' are Kong Weimeng, Xiong Yu, Shen Na, Xiong Lijun, Li Jikai, Ouyang Chun, Xu Maomao, Gao Yu, etc. the 'New cartoon generation' has not paid attention to the 'cartoon' by self-conscious, but receives the influence of cartoon culture on unconsciously, cartoon is the visual form to them in their own growth experience. They insist on the feeling of 'cartoon', express their own, personal and real cartoon life. Their pattern, style and the interest basically are establishes under the cartoon culture influence.Generally speaking, as a kind of art phenomenon which grows up and spreads in the Large-scale in the new generation of artist colony, the 'cartoon art' is a noticeable new trend in Chinese present art, It showed that the new human's brand-new cognition to the world. Basically speaking, this kind of modus what directly goes into the pop culture, the network culture and the consumption culture is a major tendency of the contemporary art's development.