Contemporary Chinese Figurative Painting Up.the New Directions

In early twentieth Century," art save the nation" ideal drive below, oil painting was introduced to China, after years of development, China has become an indispensable part of the art. Chinese painting is the inheritance of the traditional culture into the western culture under the background of development, mixed with Chinese and western the development characteristic. Today’s Chinese contemporary oil paintings made new development attract people’s attention, not only become the darling of the press of domestic art, also be Chinese contemporary art international representation language. In the development process of Chinese oil paintings, realistic language in a very long period of time occupied the oil industry’s mainstream position, play the important role of aesthetic expression of mainstream culture. However, as the nineteen eighties process of Chinese reforming and opening up, the western modernism and postmodernism art ideas into China, realistic oil painting of mainstream hit, leading to a new development direction. With the development and changes of contemporary social context, different periods of realistic oil painting showed a multidimensional characteristic style.The theoretical study and the specific method of combining text, realistic oil painting of contemporary new trend undertook study. This paper is divided into three parts:the first part is the overview of the development of Chinese realistic oil painting was last carding; second part is combined with case studies to analyze the realistic oil painting in the contemporary context of creative new trend; the third part of the realistic oil painting’s development present situation and the development trend of thought. This article tries to analysis the development of realistic oil paintings to illustrate the creation of art language is its vitality, any art form if lost on their unique style of the pursuit, will become a flower briefly as the broad-leaved epiphyllum waves, soon to be submerged in history. Realist painting is precisely because of its own continuous innovation while maintaining a strong vitality, breaking the realistic painting of the "death theory".