Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Style Transformation During The Cultural Revolution

With the rise of the popularity of the Cultural Revolution art collection, a lot of research was carried out about the art during the Cultural Revolution, a large number of articles, websites about the collection and appreciation of the Cultural Revolution art. Some books are related or even specially concerned on the research of the ceramics during the Cultural Revolution. However, some books are passing off fake articles for the real thing, and didn't start from the perspective of history to explore the Jingdezhen ceramic's unique art features and origins during the Cultural Revolution. This paper based on the historical facts, and from the relationship between politics and art as well as the relationship between artists and their works during the Cultural Revolution to described the reasons of Jingdezhen ceramic sculptures features. The paper will also classifying the Jingdezhen's sculptures during the Cultural Revolution, analyzing their characteristics of the times, and sum up how the Cultural Revolution influenced the form of Jingdezhen's sculptures, and influence on today's sculpture arts of Jingdezhen Art development.Jingdezhen ceramic sculptures art is developing on the request of"art service for the workers",and"three outstanding principles", art become a weapon of class struggle at this time, and also become a standard to determine a artist in which class. The Jingdezhen's ceramic sculptures during the Cultural Revolution full of worship towards Chairman Mao and passionate to the revolutionary. From the purpose of creation, choice of subjects and the styles of the ceramic sculptures are all abandon the traditions, Jingdezhen's Cultural Revolution ceramic sculptures was completely become the weapons of political propaganda.This paper was written on the basis of original documents and physical data, described the background of the development of Jingdezhen's ceramic sculptures during the Cultural Revolution, and through the classification analysis, summarized the features and values. Since the special background, decided the Jingdezhen's ceramics at this time highly connected with political,the traditional culture psychological and the great change of collective aesthetic consciousness. This paper will study on this special art styles from the perspective of history,Chinese culture psychological and art.