| Painting has a long history. As an important component of arts development, the history of painting reflects various perspectives through which people observe the world. Artists express their understanding of the time they live in through painting. Under certain rules and regulations, personalized painting languages become different systems or genres spontaneously or artificially. Throughout various historical periods, different countries present common or specific characteristics in context. Therefore form diverse objectified painting styles. There is no doubt that both the emergence and development of art genres demand specific context. The real artist must be good at summarizing predecessors’ experiences and failures. They, inspired by relative contemporary art phenomenon, have instant summary of their artistic accomplishments and conceptions and ultimately form their own discourse system. The recreation aiming at the details of the shaping period as well as the analysis of Chinese contemporary landscape painting provide a new perspective and imaginary space for scholars.As one of the major western painting kinds, oil painting not only keeps western creating tradition and style, but also absorbs Chinese traditional elements and painting techniques during the process of entering China. China had a record of painting with oil over two thousand years ago. Matteo Ricci got to China with God’s as well as Goddess’ s portraits in 1581. “Mu Beauties”, one of those paintings, still vaguely shows simple, unsophisticated and stately painting style. It is commonly believed by scholars that it was the beginning of oil painting creation with Chinese characteristics. The missionary Castiglione brought western oil painting skills into royal palace during the Kangxi period. In 1840, the Opium War resulted in the collision and fusion between Chinese and Western cultures. Civilian art houses and galleries developed and painting skills improved at that time. Because of low social status and limited education, commercial painters’ works did not reach high cultural level or form independent new culture. Many youngsters went to Britain, France, Japan to learn western oil painting after Hundred Days’ Reform in the late Qing Dynasty. In Yan’an period, under the influence of “combining new arts with people”, realism unified the whole country. Ever since 21 st century, Chinese oil painting has entered a new era. It has been learning, transforming, and getting rich gradually.During the shaping process of contemporary landscape oil painting styles, various potential factors generate diverse influences on present age art styles to different levels. For example, from direct description of natural scenery to the formation of emotional types, and to the fluent painting skills and ways of expressions, the creators of Chinese contemporary oil paintings are gradually leading our country’s landscape oil painting to maturity. Our oil country’s oil painting is still in the long process of learning and developing. The research about China’s contemporary oil painting is relatively less. Some give up half way without thorough and specific research. Compared to western countries, oil painting in or country started relatively late. Hence it is greatly influence by western oil painting. The image expression of Monet landscape oil painting is the breakthrough point of this thesis. The specific style of China contemporary landscape oil painting is analyzed to find a new feasibility for the future development of Chinese contemporary landscape painting. |
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