Female Consciousness In Si Cong Zhou And Kaethe Kollwitz Drawing

Female consciousness started to awaken in the end of 19 th century while long-term repressed female consciousness and emotion unwittingly infiltrated into each of social stratification step by step.Female explored self-value in the process of self-analysis and self-inspect and began trying to express self-opinion and understanding about all kinds of matters in social and life by their unique perspective and sharp observation.At the same time,female artists had been blossoming dazzling light in the wake of affirmation of self-awareness.In this kind of awareness,female artists come to break away from the dominant culture of patriarchal society and did more deep exploration in manifestation,theme choices,art language and other fields of drawing and painting by female's view.The Chinese artist Si Cong Zhou and German artist Kaethe Kollwitz were both representative female ones.Although they come from different nationality and had different life circumstances,living environment,humanistic environment even their different painting subject and form,their art works contained the same female awareness and the concern to humanity.Both of them conveyed the fervent concern to human depended on their perception to life,discerning eyes and strong female awareness from the female vision.Their art works were full of compassionate feelings,maternal love,and delicate touch and showed the tough morality in the face of life suffering.This paper is based on the background of war-ridden German and devastated China in the end of the 19 th century to the middle of the 20 th century.Along the major clue about the evolutive process of Si Cong Zhou's and Kaethe Kollwitz's artistic creation,this paper compares and analyzes the art language and distinctive artistic style based on their similar compassionate feelings and tough character expressed in their each artistic creations.Try to find an answer that how these two female artists who lived in different country,different situation,different living environment and different humanistic background showed same female consciousness through different painting theme and means of artistic expression.In the first part discusses the basic concept of female consciousness and.Detailed combing the origin of the female consciousness awakening which is in order to carry out the theory basis for the article.Analyzes the deep reason caused by female specific emotion and aesthetical features in Si Cong Zhou's and Kaethe Kollwitz's painting arts from the view of historical background and life experience.The second part is focused on the analysis of same female consciousness which is contained in different painting language.Do comprehensive research of Si Cong Zhou's and Kaethe Kollwitz's painting arts from four parts such as picture composition,character modeling,application of color and line characteristics.Excavate the inner spiritual value and affective communication in their different painting language and explore unique female character contained in their artistic creations.The third part starts from their distinct style and researches the particular female vision and same female consciousness showed from theme choice,aesthetic type and styles and features etc.These two artists lived in different historical background and had a different life circumstance but happened to express females' compassion feelings to human suffering from art works.The fourth part,I dissect the arts value and profound influences to female drawing and painting from three parts such as painting achievement,female's unique concept of art history value in art works and guidance to current female's painting.This paper conducts a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of Si Cong Zhou's and Kaethe Kollwitz's distinctive art.Try to grasp the concern and love to female's own and society shown from their artistic works and cause more people to pay attention on female psychology and emotion.This kind of profound analysis and elaboration of female consciousness in painting deeply and comprehensively shows the specific charm of female drawing and painting which has extraordinary significance on interpretation about the female painting creation and related image painting.