Miners In Chinese Painting Process Diagram

The miner pictures were painted together by Mr. chen lu and professor sicong zhou. It is a representative work among Chinese traditional character paintings in the twentieth century.The analysis of these pictures lies in two ways. One is that the thesis of these pictures is realism, the same as that of the tramp picture. The other is that the form of these pictures exceeds the border of realism painting. It was finished with all kinds of modern painting techniques such like exaggeration, distortion and adhibition. The originators grew up in the old centralize society. But in these miner pictures, they threw off all those centralize painting masses and began to express true feelings. It is in this picture that the originators transferred from frankly painting to artistically exhibition.Erenow painters usually focused on describing reappearance simply and strongly. However, these miner pictures focused on expressing psychological feelings. It abandoned the technique of realism. Just like professor sicong zhou said, "It was painted not with skills, but with feelings. Painting like this, whatever the form is abstract or distortion, it was decided by your feeling. " Both exaggeration and distortion arc used to express feelings and enlarge artistic conception more sufficiently. So in this picture the originators chose these new form languages and absorbed expressionistic thoughts. They exaggerated and distorted boldly in compressed and superposed spaces in order to express their true feelings better. This picture not only expressed nation sensibility, but also showed out a kind of all-pervading survival suffering conscious. This humanitarianism was expressed through the heavy emotion in the picture. This also showed out the society conscience of the clerisy.These artistic changes showed in the miner picture were opposite to the normal technique of describing hero at that time. Critics thought it uglified the laborers. Someone even said that it made the history degenerate from human back to monkey. However, these criticisms didn't obstruct the effect of this great work to the society. The new art technique showed in the picture even changed the numb art taste at that time. Now these miner pictures were generally accepted by people as a transition and representative art work of Chinese traditional painting. Mr. chen lu and professor sicong zhou will be memorized forever as the landmark in this area.