The Coquettish Flower-the Study On The Present Gaudy Art In China

Gaudy Art is an art phenomenon in the late nineties in China, it appears the controversial. First of all, it has broken the traditional aesthetic values, it is to the direction of popular ideology-driven, with "gorgeous" and "tacky" instead of "aesthetic" and "high". Starting from the significance of the new Chinese Public culture and popular culture, Gaudy Art use the real life of the direct "imitation" as the creative means to look for a way of artistic expression, which is for the first time in the arts in the field of popular culture to challenge the elite culture. Guzi said in the "Analysis of the Background of China Gaudy Art" that, Gaudy Art reflects the basic characteristics of Chinese culture since the nineties, use exaggerated,flat, bright advertising practices, bring an upstart peasant-style festive fun as the keynote standing position of elite culture, satirize and criticize the current flood of "Kitsch culture".Gaudy Art has its own unique values and characteristics of the times. It is the product in a particular environment, the product after the collective discussion of Kitsch artists, it is also the product for the "collision" of traditional Chinese culture and Western consumer culture. At the same time, as 90 emerging trend in art,it is hard for itself to avoid its shortcomings, it itself is a "paradox" (the conflicting positions of the general public and the elite, the contradiction between popular and elegant, the contradiction between nation's own culture and post-colonial culture). One of the most controversial conflicts is the position on the dispute Gaudy Art. Art critics and artists have different views, and even some artists in different stages of writing Gaudy Art's position on the issue have different view, in this thesis the attitudes and perceptions of art critics and artists themselves on this issue will be described. Although the group of Gaudy Art has now disintegrated, but there are some flashy artists still stick to their flashy road, still works created Gaudy, Gaudy creation has still a long way forward.