Portrait Of The Times - Image Of Peasant Workers In Chinese Oil Painting Art In The New

With the development of China’s economy and people’sliving standardsin 1980 s,the first and second industries of China are also growing, at the same time,a large number of migrant workers with lightning speed stepped on the historical stage of China,and become an indelible backbone of economic construction in China.The term "migrant workers", originated in1983, is made by Zhang Yulin who is a sociologist, he gavea clearexplanation: "Migrant workers is that stay away from rural landand to maintain a certain degree of economicties with the land at home,besides,they are also then on-urban rural labor household staff. " In those days. As the new industrialization team, migrant workers stepped into the view of Chinese quietly. It is undeniable that the migrant workers have become great spiritual expressions and distinctive symbols of China.At this time,some painters did not only witness this situation, but picked up their oil brushes express their feelings andthoughts,which gave us a great impact with the form of arts.The paper focuses on the image of migrant workers, and gives us a kind of new explanation of it, the orderliness of oil painting is sorted out by the description of peasants and soldiersduring the Cultural Revolutionandthe new migrant workers.Xin DongwangandXu Weixinaretwotypical representatives of the oil painting, but they also describe the human beauty and spiritual beauty of migrant workers. At the same time, the image of migrant workers show a kind of modern andaesthetic concepts which has a very importantvalue andspirit of realism. We believe that,with the expansion ofthe scaleoil paintingsof migrant workers, migrant workers painting aesthetic value will be rich of shine of humanity.The themes of the paintings of migrant workers are very important in Chinese contemporary art,the reasons are followed:Firstly,the policy of reforming and opening of China made a major urbanization in 1978,people’s homeless is showed in art, in the background, the migrant workers start to appear and become a kind of cultural forms.Secondly, the artists try to give attention to the social needs of migrant workers, and also try to give painting a new explanation. The biggest attraction of the contemporary migrant workers is that it reflects the spirit of the times with positive energy, and it is related to the fate of our country and harmonious society. Although the society is evolving, but latent compassion for migrant workers still remains in human nature. Reflecting in works of art, the image of migrant workers have been formed.This paper is divided into four parts: the first part, by thinking of migrant workers of the new era, described the transforming process of the relationship between the farmers and migrantworkers, as well as the origin ofthe phenomenon of migrant workers. The second part, by comparing the image of the new eraof migrant workers and the peasants during the Cultural Revolution, showed us four characteristics: real concerns deepen aesthetic sense, high lighting the personality of painting language and full of human feelings to resolve the peasant workers painting authenticity.The third part,by analyzing the Xin Dongwang, Xu Weixin, Wang Hongjian and other artists in the image of the aesthetic characteristics of migrant workers and emotional expression, reflection study of migrant workers painting triggered public. The fourth part focuses on interpretation of theartistic value of the paintings of migrant workers, migrant workers are building a solid harmonious society, harmony-based paintingworks,so that many people get thoughtful meditation by watching those workings.