| Popa oil painting training class is the training class held by Romania famous painter Eugen Popa(1919-1996) in China Academy of Art (former Zhejiang Academy of Art) in the early1960s(1960-1962) after the founding of New China,which exerts historical significance to Chinese contemporary art of painting and the development of art education.The works of Popa attach great importance to the exploration of the noumenal language of art and pursue personality, also,they emphasize the pursuit of national spirit.The members of Popa oil painting training class in their work spread the Popa artistic and teaching ideas, and to inherit and carry forward the art spirit of Popa in their fundamental teaching and painting creation practice,. Their respective painting art style gradually grow mature in the long-term art practice.Popa oil painting training class cultivates a group of painters who are now more than70years old in whose long-term teaching art activities have created many young and middle-aged painters who are now playing the active role in the contemporary art circle, and Popa’s art thought influences some successors unconciously. Popa oil painting training and the development of Chinese contemporary art have some certain relationship, and the study on Popa oil painting training class is important for the future development and the meaning and value of contemporary Chinese oil painting.Due to people are stay in the combing and recalling period of study on Popa oil painting training class,some members of the training classes maintain a little critical about the situation of Popa oil painting training class in Chinese art circle and there emerges some divergence over the influence of Popa oil painting training class has exerted to China. I try to explore the influence Popa oil painting training class had exerted to Chinese art education based on the skeleton the predecessor constructed, and start with the art thought and teaching ideas of education-oriented Popa oil painting training class and its artistic features, and to investigate the social significance and values of Popa oil painting training class in contemporary Chinese painting circle by the aid of the analysis of individual cases studies in the second half of the20th century. |
