On The Origin Of The Artistic Style Of Cao Xinlin's Oil Paintings

Cao Xinlin,born in 1940,a native of Wangcheng County,Hunan Province,graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.In the field of the Chinese contemporary oil painting,he is an important representative of the Localism which emphasized on the customs and the locals' affection for the land in the Central Plains.In spite of the current innovation and development of the oil painting art,he always adheres to the essence of the Realism,using unique expression of the oil painting to convey Chinese farmers' virtues,like sincerity,simpleness and so on.At the beginning of Cao Xinlin's painting career,the systematic and the Academy's education as well as his own diligence have laid a solid foundation for the formation of his artistic style.In the process of research and creation,he diligently studied and imitated the works of the Western classicism and realism,not only regarding "Rembrandt style",a dignified and reserved style,as the main object,but also assimilating the cream of the painting style from a Roman painter,Ke Ernie stay Baba,which took into account both simplification and delicate and deep portray on innermost being.Later,Cao Xinlin even studied the style of the Western modern expressioniam,fauvism and other academies,setting about trying abstract decorative representation style.Cao Xinlin not only learned and referred to the classics of the oil painting in Europe,but also acted an in-depth study of Chinese calligraphy art,integrating the writing form and spiritual connotation of Chinese calligraphy into the creation the oil painting,which strived to realize the perfect consencus of context and form.After years of accumulation and creating practice,Cao Xinlin gradually formed his own unique,solemn and true-life style.The paper comprehensively and systematically discusses the artistic style of Cao Xinlin and the causes of the formation,and analyzes the unique expression of his oil paintings deeply.And it is divided into four chapters.The first chapter,the introduction part,summarizes the historical background,the regional culture and life experiences of Cao Xinlin.The second chapter starts with the perspective of Cao Xinlin's artistic concept in different painting stages,analyzing the evolution of his artistic style.The third chapter analyzes the artistic features of Cao Xinlin's oil paintings' creation in the term of the theme and the expression in different periods after comprehensive consideration of his oil paintings.The fourth chapter generalizes the achievements and influences of Cao Xinlin in the history of the Chinese oil painting.It is of great significance to study and comprehend the development of the oil painting art by in-depth probe into Cao Xinlin oil painting art and analysis of his oil painting expression and style,especially in the study on the development of the oil painting art and artistic ecological construction in Henan Province.