Painting Artistic Research Of Liu Xiaodong

Liu Xiaodong is the contemporary outstanding oil painter in China. At current diversified image times, Liu Xiaodong's oil paintings have sketched an ideal world's purity with his realistic painting methods. From the perspective of human nature, his paintings can respect his own feelings and examine himself and the world with his individualized views, thus his paintings have surpassed the artistic significance of contemporary painters.This paper is aimed at Liu Xiaodong's paintings to carry out systematic research, gather his paintings in different times and comments on Liu Xiaodong's paintings from different scholars, and systematically make an arrangement on the artistic style of Liu XIaodong's paintings, as well as further demonstrate his painting theme's excavation and deep implication. Meanwhile, the paper can combine those paintings to carry out deep research and discussion for Liu Xiaodong's painting theme and the meaning behind, in order to give a comprehensive analysis for Liu Xiaodong's paintings significance for Chinese contemporary art and the enlightenment from Liu Xiaodong's painting art research.On the road of art, Liu Xiaodong has been following his inner simple and plain and gives up complex and fussy style. Simple is not merely thin in appearance but holding a sincere heart to experience and face the real life. Liu Xiaodong makes great efforts to build his own individualized spirit of time and space in the current consumptive commodity world with his clear mind and affecting poetry feelings. He has also formed typical artistic style with his struggling spirit and strong personality charm. This paper uses creation of paintings as a step to present and analyze Liu Xiaodong and his representative artistic work ans style in multiple perspectives, striving for expanding an overall and completed understanding for Liu Xiaodong's paintings.