The Outline Theory Of Art Criticism In The Republic Of China

Art criticism is a cognitive activity of the art object what the art subject through such practice course as" criticized " or" commented" to come true, it's by means of theory and resort to in form of letter unfold a particular period of art style and social overview, but if compared with art creating it is an afterwards socialized activity. From this relationship which between art and society, production and acceptance to investigate art criticism, it's at one end of the community and accepted, from art to criticism, also involves a conceptual issue, namely the attitude of people toward art.That is to say, not only the intrinsic value of art, but also the external world is the main factor that affect person's subjective evaluation of art. So the art of the Republican criticism which we will probe into, need to involve several factors such as the state of art's development, social culture atmosphere, political historical background in this period etc. According to art's development, up to late Qing dynasty, the turbulence of current political situation, the domestic trouble and the foreign invasion made art no longer regard elegant as zealously intention, the criterion of art criticism also replaced poetic "commented" by realistic "criticized". On social culture atmosphere, the Republic of art criticism stemmed from the confliction between Eastern and Western cultures. Treated as political historical background looks, art criticism at this time, undertook such political task as save the nation and rescue the people.Up to the Republic of China, Chinese and Western arts which is better and which is worse, where to go and where to come suchlike these discussion with the Western arts gradually entered became the main of art criticism purpose, First, Chinese politicians by comparing the strength of Western society, form this concept of criticism which "picking up a Western for the end of the art", followed by the artist with his own artistic practice and do their utmost to "comprehensive expression on its own", finally through politicians from the global war considerations unified " art as a political" point of view. Underpinned by a variety of critical perspectives, the arts activities has also experienced such three stages, that is passive response for a decline in Chinese painting, to conscious of art value, and eventually developed into active explore the political arts. The art creative activity have been transformed from passiveness to initiative, criticism through the process of multiple from the extreme point of view to extreme, as well as the main criticism from politicians to artists, and then to return to politicians, precisely show the Republican Art Criticism in the inevitable accident, and this inevitably reveals the art and reality is the natural inter-dimensional relations, also reflects the great connections between art criticism and the critic's identity.From the art criticism derived "revolutionary" "eclecticism" or "conservatives" as the main three pillars of the art criticism, the political social function about arts is brought into schedule again, various critical remarks rised one after another, forming the main points of criticism at this time. Particular era endowed with particular characteristic for art criticism, from the concept category of criticizing to the type of writing, from mode of thinking to the theoretical form are all showing a new feature which different from the past, and this has also achieved the main body of scholars from feudal to modern intellectuals changes. This is also the basic theoretical framework of Republic of China's art criticism.This paper attempts to put discussion as the main written style, take the vertical and horizontal dimensions as two major aspects to interpret art criticism point of view and analysis its character. Among this article, author attempts to make as accurately or briefly as possible describe for influential art criticism view, and on the basis of explaining the view to analysis its characteristic, try to put forward the opinion which different from academia at present. Of course, the so-called critical view and features only put in Republic of China's big space and time just could represent its rationality.