Investigation Of The Cartoon-style Representation In The Chinese Contemporary Paintings

Has cartoon-style-painting lost it-self? Lots of controversies started because of the glamour cartoon-style-painting, which is very popular in Sichuan and Guangdong fine arts colleges during these 10-odd years. In these several years, cartoon-style-paining has been imitated or copied here and there. In China, with the development of Chinese contemporary art market, some fine arts college students go with the "cartoon flow", and inconceivably, their cartoon-style paintings which have been painted coarsely sell well. Cartoon-style-painting has been thought as a kind of skin-deep works by Chinese art critical field for a long time.However, although there are some "coarse cartoon" existed in the contemporary fine arts'world, lots of wonderful art-works are setting a trend of contemporary arts. Contemporary art is greatly subject to the social, economic and cultural impacts, which are the root causes of such a tendency. For instance, the rapid development of the economy has made transitions in different aspects of the society, including the consumer culture, the Internet culture, new media art, the restructuring aesthetic standard. How to see cartoon-style-painting? And what should we——new artists in the future do, during our long art journey in the future? This thesis will analyze many cases of new cartoon-style-paintings for these several years, and show new improvement of cartoon-style-painting after the "cartoon flow". The key part of the analysis about the cartoon-style-painting will relate to Chinese Special Commix these years. And the background of the painters, including social environment,growth background,knowledge scopes, will be analyzed amply in this thesis.