There are group of painters in china , had taken their dream canvas of the country, duty-bound to embark on a “gold-plated” tour. After a baptism, now they are with different “Western” to return to the motherland, or “celebration” or “defeat.” They are the “returnees” in the ranks of special groups, returned to their “journey” is even more curious. They are abroad how the cause of the road, why has it returned to China? To this end, the reporters in the Apple community has become a neighbor of the United States painter Chen, Shang and Gao Ding Shaohua, and inventive artists of Japan, Zhang Xiaodong, listen to their answer.
Chinese oil paintings in the new century, the first face today is the prominent problems brought about by globalization and cultural convergence trend. As a result of the powerful countries in the material and spiritual and cultural products of Western culture caused extensive expansion across the globe, making the country vulnerable after a long history of practice in the formation of culture and cultural patterns and digestion by the exclusion, character and spirit of the pursuit of cultural erosion and assimilation , culture and vitality of living space is gradually lost. At present countries people are from this culture have been created by the convergence of trends has been a single culture is a worldwide cultural crisis, because in the process of economic globalization, the need for regional balance of the diverse culture of human diversity spiritual needs. Maintain and develop regional culture in the era of globalization is important.
Specific to the Chinese oil paintings from the original that is, the West, the school in the West rather than the art of native species, how to face the new situation? How to establish their own art direction? This can not fail to note the two is not new, but in the new situation has highlighted the relevance and role of academic issues, and that is painting the “national character” and “modern” problems.
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China oil painting art from scratch to today’s prosperity, it can not be denied to the West This is mainly the results of the study. The 20th century, the initial and 21 century, is decisively different from the era of two hundred years ago from the revitalization of national prosperity and cultural point of view, we are grateful to our ancestors as the knowledge that they found in the country closed and powerful China is not only the decline and cultural stagnation, thus boldly go out of the country to the West to study the introduction of Western civilization, the Chinese have followed the rise of his oil paintings. Since then, the development of Chinese painting experienced three wave study: the first time, that is, to study the early 20th century in Western Europe and Japan; the second time in the century to learn the Soviet Union; the third time, it is the western end of the last century Hot Modern Art. The three learn of the development of Chinese Oil Painting is very necessary, do not have to learn there is no oil painting in China today, it determines the basic outlook of Chinese oil paintings with the pattern. Chinese Oil Painting in the 20th century, apart from war and revolutionary movement, is basically in how to better grasp the expertise of Western oil complex to learn, and learn the West has become one of the last century, the basic characteristics. Of course, this learning process is the creation of oil paintings to explore the process of localization, Chinese oil paintings in various historical periods, whether it is the beginning of the century or the century of the older generation of the younger generation, in the nationalization of oil in China have made this issue its own contribution……
