The Performance

In the history of modern art, expressionism is an important art current of thought and party. In the extensive meaning, expressionism is the technique to express the artist of the spirit or subjective emotion by the transform and the abstract. In realism, symbolism, even classical works, we can see the shadow of the "expression". "Expression" first appeared in the Matisse' art exhibition held in Paris, France, in 1901.Btu its development has experienced the earlier French and German expressionism, the American abstract expressionism and German new expressionism. The Chinese contemporary expressionism comes into being under the influence of the traditional expression gene and western expressionism. Since cultural revolution, because of the long-term culture restrict, the artists' personality has been extremely suppressed. In 1980s', with western culture constantly introduced, the power will and the tragedy consciousness of Nietzsche, the existentialism philosophy concerning freedom and the person's existent of Sartre, the Freud subconscious theory, etc. produce the huge impact to the Chinese artists' views. In addition, China traditional civilization, the philosophy of the Laozi and Zhuangzi , the meditation and the Chinese ancient mysterious philosophy have been understood in a new way. Chinese new expressionism has developed from the entire imitation to standing on China to face Chinese problems. It concentrates on the art language system with Chinese characteristics and has gained a lot of experience and supported a number of talents. Different from the college realism, abstract art and the idea art, expressionism art has the wider scope and the stronger vitality. It has no dogma of the college realistic parties, and get away from the abstract art and Inartistic art. It will play a more important role in pure art field with sincere expression of the people's thought, emotion, and consciousness. With the continuously deeper communication between the western and the Chinese art, Chinese oil painting art which has been influenced by several- thousand- year traditional expression will be more and more important in the expression field.