Analysis Of The New Culture Movement Of Chinese Art Changes Its Social Functionality

In 1840 the gun of the imperialism opened the door of China, and brought the capitalistic culture to her. By the influence of Western civilization, a group of progressive intellectuals launched the New Culture Movement filled with patriotic enthusiasm. Taking the democracy and the science as the weapons, they attacked the old culture and feudal ideas which impeded social progress excessively. The May 4th movement broke out, which put the campaign of thought enlightenment into the great age of "cultural revolution". And the theory of "Renaissance" became the very representative understanding of the New Culture Movement in the academic field. During this time, accompanied with the great social change, the Chinese painting was blown heavily without precedent. The traditional national painting experienced the complex innovation. Western painting not only destroyed the overweening pattern of the Chinese painting, but also promoted to establish Chinese own system of the art education. The continued social change correspondingly enriched the variety, the theme and the manifestations of the painting. Reviewing the Chinese Painting of the thousand years, the first half of the 20th century can be called the greatest period in the history, because of the incomparable fundamental revolution and the development. This thesis attempts to analyze briefly and account the reform and the social function of the Chinese art of the New Culture Movement, not only for the splendor of the traditional Chinese culture and its indomitable vitality, but also for the absorption and the reference from it. In this new era of the great revolution and in the course of history of the great rejuvenation in China, the author pursues the victorious paces of the new change of the Chinese art.