Coloring Styles And Cultural Influence Of Contemporary Oil

Xinjiang was a vital stop of the Silk Road, where cultures of different ethnic minoritiescollided and mixed into a diversified product which brought rich and valuable artisticresources to oil painters living around, enabling the local painters to remain their regionalfeatures in artistic creation. Of the formal languages of oil painting, color is an important wayto express feelings and emotions, and also the most straightforward visual passage for theaudience. To open a new page of the local oil-painting creation, Xinjiang contemporary oilpainters have to build their art on the local culture. This thesis generalizes the decorativeness,planarity, symbolicalness and expressivity of the coloring styles of Xinjiang contemporary oilpainters from their formal language of applying color through the analysis of their paintingsand the study of the aesthetic psychology and the unique human feelings presented by thecolor performance thereof, and probes into several cultural factors that have been influencingthe color creation of Xinjiang contemporary oil painters, including the factors of geographicalenvironment and ethnic cultures, of religious culture, of Central Asian miniature, and ofRussian and western modernism, so as to encourage Xinjiang contemporary oil painters toabsorb artistic forms and ideas from the west through constant introspection andsummarization, to be more aware of how color can be expressed in Xinjiang contemporaryoil-painting creation, and to explore new artistic concepts and coloring reforms on theongoing train of cultural blending.