| "Cultural Revolution" landscape painting is the product of "Red Culture" and "Red Spirit" of New China in the special historical period of socialist revolution and construction.It plays a great role in stimulating the enthusiasm of the masses,inspiring fighting spirit and promoting the development of social movements.The new situation,new content,new viewpoints and mainstream aesthetics of the times require painters to create and keep pace with the times.Landscape painters create around the themes of new urban and rural areas,new construction,new landscape,new poetry and new holy places in the period of socialist construction in New China.To a certain extent,they promote the new appearance,new atmosphere and new fashion in the period of socialist construction.Although painters create from different themes,perspectives and contents,the core points of view are consistent.They all take Mao Zedong's literary and artistic thought as the starting point and reflect the political theme and social spiritual style of the times with realistic expression.Art should develop with the development of the times.As a landscape painting creation in the special historical period of the Cultural Revolution,artists need to rethink the relationship between art and the times,art and politics,cultural freedom and derivative freedom.Artistic creation should follow the "two directions" and "two combinations" put forward by Mao Zedong's literary and artistic thought,requiring subject matter and content to reflect objective reality,requiring painters to go to the grassroots masses,reflect people's lives and oppose metaphysical expression.Its creative ideas and techniques are unique.The selection of materials and creativity should be consistent with the political orientation.The selection of painters mainly centers on the socialist economic and cultural construction.The works should reflect the superiority of the socialist system,the flourishing new situation of urban and rural construction,industrial and agricultural construction,cultural and artistic construction,and the patriotism,collectivism of the people.The spirit of heroism and optimism embodies the revolutionary spirit of people's arduous struggle to build socialism.The theme of the work is distinct and the content is positive.It embodies the harmony between art and the times,and between art and politics.At the same time,it also embodies the spiritual connotation and social value of landscape painting during the "Cultural Revolution".Compared with figure painting,the political color of landscape painting is not so strong.Landscape painting mainly takes landscape as the main body.While maintaining the political theme,landscape painting creation inherits the characteristics of traditional landscape painting on the one hand,and reforms the traditional painting formula to adapt to the relative unity of politics,socialization and artistry,so-called "red landscape" appears.Landscape painting reflects the basic conditions of the socialist revolution and construction period in the special historical period of the Cultural Revolution,which is the overall creative characteristics of landscape painting in this period.During the Cultural Revolution,due to the control of the Gang of Four over the cultural field,the political needs limited the scope of artists' creation,including themes,content,techniques,and even artists' creative ideas and motives.All of them had to be reformed to adapt to the changes of the situation.Although the creation modes of "Three Outstanding","Tall Big Perfect","Red,Light and Bright" highlight the political,revolutionary and combatant nature of literature and art,they greatly weaken the scientificalness,authenticity and artistry of the works and bring about false and exaggerated realism,pseudo-romanticism and cheap optimism,which are the main features of "Cultural Revolution" paintings,including landscape paintings. |
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