Since China’s Reform And Opening Illustration Art Research

The development of illustration art embodies the change of people’s lives at differentstages. It can be said that illustration is a mirror reflecting all aspects of social life in eachperiod. After the reform and opening up, the field of politics, economy and culture hasundergone tremendous changes. In circumstance that the overall environment has beenchanged, illustration art has been greatly improved compared to the past. Besides it hasbeen rapidly developing, many also have become very popular new form along with thewave of social transformation. The illustration art which has been developed till today,various forms coexist, and has achieved great success in artistic and commercial aspect.The victory holding of Third Plenary Session of the11th Central Committee of theChinese Communist Party made the history of China entered a new chapter, and broughtgreat changes to social development and profound impact on the spiritual needs of theChinese nation. Along with the continuous development of art and culture and graduallybecoming diversified, illustration is also affected by the social development and needs ofthe time, which with different forms, has been changing people’s social life and aestheticneeds. After the reform and opening up, people’s social life is facing new situations, andplacing on new value resources, this art form of popularity is showing today’s aestheticthought. Under stable situations, artists began to work, and society restores normaladmissions, art academies began to introduce talents, art newspapers and books graduallyreopened again. The artists, who had been buried, started new creation journey with newattitudes. After that time, the though which had been "art subordinates to politics" turnedinto" art belongs to the people". The emphasized literary and artistic creation is even morerepresentative of the nature of art, and creation techniques and thinking expression shouldhave identity; free creation and free speech are established as fundamental principles.Under the circumstance that the overall environment was relaxed, a lot of excellentillustration works appeared. Although there were lots of harvest, but in contrast, there is agap between China’s illustrations and foreign ones, and need for further improvement.This paper sorts out the development of illustration art for30years since the reform andopening up, exploring the aesthetic changes at the same time to find out great practicalsignificance of future illustrator development.