Melt The West Into Chinese And Express The Meaning By Its Figure

Guan Liang earlier had studied oil painting in Japan. He is the pioneer in exploring the Chinese oil painting nationalization in the twentieth Century. Because of the profound traditional culture he owned, and the western art education he accepted, he began the exploration and pursuit of Chinese and Western painting art language fusion at the beginning of last century, so that Chinese opera, a traditional art form of the representative, is taken as his creative matrix. Learning from the modern western art modeling concepts and traditional Chinese art forms, he deals with the object with a concise summary treatment and combined with the writing brush image modeling, he expresses the meaning by its figure, showing the aesthetic interest with Chinese spirit connotation. The feature of "Melt the West into Chinese" embodied in the paintings of opera figure painting has become an important foothold to understand and research Guan Liang’s exploration of "Nationalization of Oil Painting".At present, Chinese painting shows a vague situation and pursuit of nothing. More attention is paid into the social cast and material of the painting than the improvement of aesthetic consciousness. Contemporary art needs to establish its own cultural view. This paper tries to analyze the "Melt the West into Chinese" oil painting nationalization in Guan Liang’s oil painting and opera figure painting. It intends to evoke the contemporary artists to explore and use the resources of traditional culture and seek new cultural interpretation combined with the spirit of the time.