The Expressions Of Chinese Oil Painting And The Search For Cultural Identification

As a representative of Western art,Oil painting has been impacted by Chinese culture and politics since the early 20th century when it was introduced into China,and also affects the development of Chinese art at This paper attempts to explore the connections between the expression of oil painting in different periods of time and it's traditional cultural identity,which manifest on various aspects.The arts of China had had a strong impact on oil painting,especially the influx of modern Western art.Many people too delight in talking about western art,but knew very little about the cultural traditions,ethnic traditional culture were gradually declining in the impact of Western culture.How to make the traditional culture shining again with the impact of Western art,many artists considered on it.Before the 85th,drawing the traditional culture is mainly on the form and content of the graft,to fit the Oriental aesthetic with using the western material.The traditional conception of painting,the way of using brush and the character of freehand brush work became the way to put the oil painting with more nationalities.Since the late 80's of the 20th century,with the rising of multiculturalism and carrying out the reform and opening up policy rapidly brought the expression of self-contained China's art into international background.However,the main West sense of social values is still leading the primary judgement level on the art. cultural identity of Chinese artists has become increasingly blurred.With the developing inter-cultural exchanges,the crisis awareness of cultural identity was gradually realized that artists,they begun to explore new point of view and the new aesthetic experience actively,to express the identity of the national culture. This period,the traditional culture and the integration of contemporary painting has been toward a more mature direction,exploring a new way from the content, form and artistic and used the performance of contemporary art forms of contemporary social life and the artist's subjective thinking.Western post-modern art effect of misappropriation,copying and collage tools,such as popular art,there are a lot of traces of ideas and manners in many works in contemporary.China's traditional cultural resources of contemporary artistic creation,enriched expression of contemporary art and art forms,so that the Chinese contemporary art speed up the process greatly.In addition,traditional cultural resources in the oil painting,especially the successful using and conversing of contemporary oil painting,to the Chinese traditional culture and heritage in the contemporary development of new possibilities,and also proved that the time-honored traditional culture tremendous vitality and inclusiveness.