Chinese Contemporary Abstract Painting Freehand Factor

As we all know, oil painting did not originate in China. Since oil painting was introduced into China, it has been inevitable for it to have a series of collision, integration and transformation with domestic artistic conceptions, gradually forming the freehand oil painting which can reflect Chinese real state of mind and painters’social responsibility as well as national cultural identity.When we focus on the concrete creation of Chinese freehand oil painting, we may notice that there is an overlapping between traditional Chinese freehand spirit and the abstract factors in arts. This kind of relationship is extraordinarily prominent. The author believes that it is a problem about Chinese contemporary oil painting encounters---how to combine Chinese and western artistic spirits on the basis of a rational mind so as to maintain national traditions and promote freehand spirits on the basis of the understanding about the differences between China and the west.However, the development of modern art is from concrete to abstract and the diversified development of contemporary art and that is the tendency of artistic development. Even though a large number of freehand oil paintings have shown the application of abstract factors, there is no perfect summary or conclusion for abstract theory. Many people do not understand abstract, they do not realize that fact that in abstract paintings, apart from the pure abstraction, there is artists’ emotions and mind as well as their desire for internal spirits and the construction of artistic ontology. Contrarily, they think that the western painting abstractism is an artistic camouflage embodying "the maximum of confusion and chaos". Even so, western painting changes from modernism to postmodernism, from abstract art to concept art, while the abstractism’s charm has not reduced.Because the development and changes of artistic styles are confined to the changes of society and history, and to a great extent, they are influenced by people’s inner logical evolution and art’s development laws. Therefore, in recent years, the domestic deepening researches on the abstract problems have occurred. We find out that western modern abstract arts have employed the abstract factors to a large extent, enlightening the development of Chinese oil painting. From a more comprehensive modern and contemporary perspective, this paper tries to use the methods of iconography, cultural methodology as well as sociology to analyze the abstract factors in the typical works of Chinese freehand oil painting. By means of the analysis and study about the spirits embodied in the abstract factors which constitute the artistic language, this paper aims at helping more people to understand the differences between abstract oil painting and freehand oil painting, opening the window for art appreciation. Meanwhile, this paper explains the ideas that the Chinese freehand oil painting emphasis the use of the abstract factors in oil painting art to demonstrate Chinese characteristics abstract, so as to make people experience art’s cultural connotations and stimulating the creativity which can reflect the themes and contents of works by means of the understanding about the abstract factors in oil painting art.