Studies On The Demonstrative Significance Of The First National Fine Arts Exhibition And Oil Painting Localization Of The Time

As the first national fine arts exhibition in the history of China, the National Fine Arts Exhibition hosted by the Kuomintang (KMT) Government in 1929 demonstrated not only the development of the early Chinese oil painting but also the localized development of oil painting in China having enormous influence over the later fine arts exhibitions and oil painting development.This thesis studies the demonstrative significance of the first national fine arts exhibition in 1929 and its significance to the localization of oil painting by employing methods of documentation and demonstration analysis, inductive argument, and plate empirical analysis. Chapter one of this thesis reviews major fine arts exhibitions prior to 1929 and the ideas of oil painting localization ideas put forward by artists and ideologists atof that time and reveals the social and cultural background of the first national one. Chapter two reviews its preparation process, introduces its profiles and explores its significance of aesthetic education by searching documents of the time. Chapter three discusses localization features of the early Chinese oil painting from the aspects of diversified styles of oil painting at the exhibition, disputes between oil painting’s’modernism’and’realism’, limitations of oil painting’s localization, and the fine arts exhibition’s after-effects on the localization of oil painting.