| At the beginning of the twentieth Century, Western easel painting is facing an epoch-making change. Modern art thoughts come in great numbers and impact the traditional western painting. The pioneers holding the banner of "free individuality" and "abstract expression" highly, launches the war on traditional art. British artist Ugro was born in this period.Young Ugro did not immediately make a choice whether completely abandon the traditional or refuse the modernism. He selected a "moderate" road. First of all, the painting idea and expression of modernism deeply touched him, so there is no reason to reject it. Secondly, traditional painting conception, scientific methods of observation, strict means of modeling also rooted in his deep heart.Therefore, he chose between the two "zone". Such a perfect combination and construction formed a unique painting language of Ugro.Ugro became a wanderer between tradition and modern and at the same time he ascended to the master sequence of contemporary British painting.Easel art followers in different ethnic, national, age, are also in their growth process facing some similar artistic experience. The way of painting we had accepted has already ingrained in our hearts. The seed of "Soviet style" painting patterns has now grown into a towering tree.The education system and aesthetic standards which the older generation artists who we are familiar with summarize deeply nourish us.However, with the progress of science and technology, economic prosperity, the emergence of new things, the art of painting is facing a new look and at the same time also greatly troubled us newcomers. We are also faced with the the same problem of selection.In this paper, through the analysis of Ugro’s painting works, explains the causes of this style, artistic value and enlightenment we get from the artistic creation, encourage us to dialectically treat the past traditional art, to exercise their own language, and then create the artistic style. |
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