Activate Tradition: Contemporary Art In The "Chinese Way" Research

The time range of this thesis is the1980s to the present, the theme is "China Style" of contemporary art. The scope of the study is mainly related to its development and positioning, and traditional Chinese cultural resources in contemporary art conversion."China Style" of contemporary art is a specific discussion how the combination of traditional Chinese cultural resources and exploratory and experimental contemporary art, is to investigate whether the Chinese contemporary art can win the core concerns of the international exchange. It is the deep-seated problems in the process of the development of Chinese contemporary art.At present, this topic of the "China Style" in major exhibitions and academic research is often mentioned as the core concept, which also spawned the emergence of such a creative mode, on the one hand, to some extent to meet the current culture of the people a sense of belonging; on the other hand, this style of contemporary art in the international generally recognized, improve self-confidence of the local culture."China Style" contemporary art can be seen in the specific context of the times and cultural contexts, be able to find a "reasonable" ways and means to the contemporary, to the international diversification, not only for China in international culture win more and more attention, at the same time, the manner of its existence also effectively communicated to the multicultural thinking of their own culture as well as the opening up of the contemporary Chinese culture property.The paper is divided into four chapters, mainly discussed in a macro point of view, the first two chapters of the order of Longitudinal Time discusses the social background of the "China style" contemporary art and stage of development, through the understanding of the background and then analyzes its significance works language of art forms, explore the tradition and rediscover traditional issues, and finally settled in with their own cultural construct thinking. Specifically as follows:Chapter1:firstly discusses the development of Chinese contemporary art in which the environment both at home and abroad and the actual situation to be addressed, thus leads to the "China Style" of contemporary art.Chapter2:the development of "China Style" contemporary art in time to sort out analysis classified into three stages, in order to have a macro grasp its entire development process. Chapter3:Overview text and works image combination, discusses the "China Style" form of artistic language and creative methods.Chapter4:elaborated the "China Style" of contemporary art inheritance and " rediscovered" tradition, and finally rose to the level of their own culture to build.