The Farmer Topic In Chinese Oil Painting Expresses

An oil painting stems from Western Europe and has a long history. Chinese oil painting is an foreign goods, which has combined Chinese traditional culture arts and western Europe's. Although the arts of oil painting were formally transmitted into china only for some hundreds, it developed in the direction for localization and nationalization. Generations of oil painters had been exploring all kinds of western painting styles, which had grown from foreign painting to integrating into blood. Up to now, it has been coming into the oil painting system of"let a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools contend".The paper focuses on Chinese oil painters, who are good at farmer's theme painting and merging Chinese traditional culture with social reality. The paper recalls briefly European oil painting works of farmers'theme on the ground of china is an agricultural country and most of Chinese are farmers, it discusses Chinese oil painting of farmers'theme in comparison with the same theme of Europe. It discovers the historic backgrounds, whole features of farmer's theme works and Chinese painters many creating styles in each period (May 4th New Culture Movement, War of Resistance against Japan, building new china, open up and reform and contemporary diversification period). At last, it shows that great significance of creating farmers'theme works by reorganizing looks, features and changes on each special stage...