"China Style": Contemporary Arts Realization From Cultural Strategy To Cultural Consciousness

In a broad concept, "China Style" is a kind of cultural communication method. It is a notion arisen from people's thinking of how to response to international multi-cultural communication based on Chinese realism condition. In a narrow concept, it is a way to express towards arts. It means the thinking and expression when artists with Chinese culture background search for the practice of how Chinese contemporary arts can effectively enter international Modern art system.In this thesis, "China Style" not only concerns about art creation practice, but also concerns which way should be adopted to enter international communication. Chinese contemporary art with "China Style" should possess two visual experiences. One is to have western modern art features. Another is to express Chinese traditional culture spirit and Chinese emotion and experience. In this thesis, the main characters of "China Style" art works are those which use visual elements with Chinese traditional cultural resources, which reflect Chinese unique political, economical and social phenomenon (problems) and symbolized in a visual way or behavior. They reconstruct visual language which accord with modern art context. It is a value tropism when Chinese artists concern about cultural condition, searching for art "Legitimacy" and request for enter international communication acting as Chinese contemporary art representative.The thesis stands on the main theory of "China Style", research realistic conditions, strategies to and arousal of self-value when Chinese contemporary artists participate international culture communication. The author expatiates based on concrete art works and expresses the understanding to Chinese contemporary art. In this thesis, the author emphasize on the direction of integrating thoughts of domestic and international cultural backgrounds, Chinese traditional and contemporary cultural condition, artists' personal temperament and cultural group features, orient study in western culture and realistic condition of Chinese contemporary art. In idiographic research process, the author tries to digest different subjects and apply viewpoint and methods of Art Historiography, Study on Traditional Culture, After-Modernism and Iconology in research to obtain a general perception towards Chinese contemporary art.