A Study On The Farmers' Image Representation In Contemporary Chinese Oil Paintings

Farmers theme at any time has its existence value and significance, especially in agricultural country like China. Farmers’ life and survival status of art, was retained since ancient times, in the work also there are a lot of good films. Combing and analysis of Chinese farmers in the new period for the theme of painting in the process of the development of Chinese oil painting’s features and form, helps us see more clearly the development of oil painting in our genre painting characteristic and farmers in the process of value and significance in countries like China. In the modern city development in China today, increasing development of urban culture and those in the city on the edge of the disadvantaged groups living conditions is in stark contrast, the gap between rich and poor is more and more big. Springing up in the city of farmers has become a social development of a major question. At the same time, China is the world’s standards, in the process of politics, economy and culture have been influenced by a certain and the corresponding adjustment, which in the different degree also played a certain effect on the development of art, and art to the development direction of diversification. In oil painting art, about the"rural","farmers" painting subjects, there was a time is forgotten. Since "reform and opening up" with the, the adjustment of China’s economic system, great changes have taken place in people’s life, China’s economic rapid development, the broad masses of the people’s life is generally improved, the countryside is no exception. As the artists of this time only seriously reflect on the change of the social development brings to the rural farmers, they began to look around the laboring people live at the local level, pay attention to their survival state, with his own artistic language expression way to reveal the status of peasants’ lives, to the countryside, farmers life to humanistic care, and cause the reflection of the society. For farmers in the new period of processing and performance of multivariate development direction. Due to the change of the social form, the oil painting art from passive to active performance reality reality. In oil painting art form is presents the diversification and individuation. Is no longer as before, which is mainly composed of a single realism creation style style, but in realism, symbolism, expressionism, classical approach in photograph reflect scene rendering. The performance of the subject matter for farmers in this change is changed accordingly. Artists should see this, to further the development direction of farmer theme paintings. Although time in constant development, but the artist painting subjects for farmers only based on reality, through careful observation, real experience the real life of farmers, to a deeper level to explore the theme behind the deep cultural connotation and the spiritual connotation, alignment perspective in art creation rules to sincere performance of the theme, artistic appreciation can infect each person, reflects the artist’s social sense of responsibility and the expressive force of oil painting art.