Shadows As Vanity

Fengmian Lin once proposed "to reconcile Chinese and western art, the creation advocated art of the era", and during the period of the republic of China urban genre painting is under the background of the political change in westernization trend and showed a fusion of Chinese and western, from traditional to modern transformation of innovation consciousness. At the same time, Chinese painting pay attention to "the heart source outside nature," and the artist living environment and different ideology, different art forms created by the inevitable. During the period of the republic of China of the painter to a certain extent, affected by age, at the same time in the traditional art connotation of pursuit and also the characteristics of the synchronization of modern art, image of popular urban women in this period, the image of the real outline of the basic style and features of the city female life at that time. Women in old and new, traditional and modern, local, and the west, the private sector and public space between the mutual infiltration and metastasis of fully show in the picture. The period of the Republic of China Urban genre painting, whether it is the calendar, porcelain painting, events illustrated or Shanghai comics, has dual characteristics of artistic and commercial,represents the aesthetic orientation of the people of that era, recorded metropolitan style and fashion girl, grace for posterity, and such women are still referenced schema of modern,today’s beauty pictorial "big" or "single" characteristics, but also to cater to the aesthetic orientation of contemporary people.At the same time, the image of women in urban custom of painting is also used in contemporary art, such as gaudy art, contemporary meticulous, posters and so on, give a contemporary art inspiration, that is how the traditional art and western national culture and local characteristics of the fusion of contemporary art under the background of combination, achieve nationalization the creation, localization.This topic research is based on the analysis of the female images in the republic of China urban genre painting and introduced, and the female image positioning to explore, Analysis of the characteristics of coquetry,in order to better explore female image in urban genre painting during the period of the republic of China on the impact of the development of modern art.