During The War Of Art Creation Of Spiritual Significance

In the huge change of the art development in China in20th century, particularly noteworthy phenomenon is the arts of the period of the Anti-Japanese War. As Mr. Huang Ke pointed out:"In the historical process of new democratic revolution, the art activities serving for the revolution was growing vigorously in full swing, and the works of art in the entire revolutionary played powerful role’to unite and educate the people, strike and destroy the enemy’."From the "September18Incident" in1931to "July7incident" in1937, then again till Japanese surrender in September1945, the tough anti-Japanese war lasted for14years. When the flame of war filled the vast land of China, art workers driven by Anti-Japanese sentiment and used art as there weapons, in the forms of prints, cartoons, posters, and other forms, to propagate and struggle against Japanese, which showed the upsurge of national spirit.In this national death struggle, the Chinese Artists experienced oscillation of the heart, emotional conflict and the transmutation of concept. In China’s peril historical juncture of the national resistance of invaders, they showed a positive upsurge of patriotic spirit and dauntless fighting spirit. It is the commendable spirit that made easy to overcome difficulties of war, and move towards the final victory. A lot of the literature, however, just combed the basic condition of the art development, but less involved with the thinking of spiritual significance.This article combs through the period of the Anti-Japanese War artworks in detail, to analyze the significance of their creative spirit and then it will make us better to understand this piece of history. The topic of’discussion on the spiritual significance of the art creation in the Anti-Japanese War’focuses on four spirits, the national spirit, the fighting spirit, the spirit of unity, and the artistic spirit.When the war broke out, the survival of our nation and state crisis made awaking the public to participate in the Anti-Japanese War become an urgent political task. Since the vast majority of people are illiterate, mobilizing the masses, art propaganda in popular art form with the spiritual significance among the masses to conduct a wide range of national liberation war, was the universal recognition of the social strata. The art which includes the special spiritual significance of the war, strongly encouraged the people, combined strong fighting force, and has played an important role in the war.When we read history and its graph nowadays, if we grasp the spirit of art creation during the war, it will help us to become more organized, deeply know and understand the significance of the historical stages of art development, and then we can examine more rationally the developmental characteristics of this period of art history and the spirit of it.The creation of Arts in the Anti-Japanese War is indelible memories of the history of Chinese art, and also a historical chapter section of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese War grand epic. In short, hope that this thesis topic will be able to go deep into and constantly inspire the future generations towards this unique art phenomenon, and have a unique understanding and grasp of its richness and complexity. The war has gone, but let people through the works of art in the Anti-Japanese War, understand its sacred and unique spiritual significance, and carry forward and this has great significance for strengthening the noble national consciousness and statehood in contemporary, especially.