An Analysis Of The Development Tendency Of China’s Oil Painting Within The Modern Context

With the rapid development of China’s economy and culture, people’s livingstandard has been greatly improved. Accordingly, they need more food for thoughtand their aesthetic value has enhanced. To fulfil this need, where the oil painting, thecarrier of the spirit and social ideology in China, will go? This is what thecontemporary oil painters have to be concerned about. And this paper made adetailed argument over this question.The introduction part outlined the development of China’s oil painting and putforward a false proposition, that is, to nationalize or globalize the oil painting, whichhas been a controversial issue in the field of China’s oil painting. In the meantime, itdefined China’s contemporary oil painting with "China’s modern spirit" and" China’s modern language"at its core. This definition represents not only thenational characters but also the spirit of this age. Chapter I came up with theconception of "context" and elaborated on its basic change and qualities. Futhermore,it discussed the effect of the modern context on China’s contemporary oil painting.Chapter II probed and predicted the general tendency of the development of China’scontemporary oil painting within the modern context and argued the reason behind it.Chapter III pointed out the way China’s contemporary oil painting develops from theresearcher’s own perspective. In other words, the expression of oil painting, anuniversal visual art, should be enriched by the combination of Chinese folk art andthe foreign ones.China’s contemporary oil painting should possess the historical as well as themodern quality and should be well integrated into the nation’s culture yet keep itsown artistic trait. The way to solve such contradiction is to realize the differences between the Chinese culture and the western culture and the differences of the twotypes in their different stages of development. Including the elements of the age andthe nation’s culture, the oil painting will make an indispensible part of Chineseculture.