——The second issue of the second season of “Looking to be an Old Friend” listened to Xu Li, vice chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, talked about Chinese-style oil painting
In the history of human civilization, the integration of different countries and national cultures will form new cultural productivity. The introduction of oil painting into China is not only the development of Western culture in China, but also the transplantation, improvement and regeneration of Chinese culture to Western culture.
In the early twentieth century, most Chinese painters still dealt with traditional themes, such as birds, animals, lotus, pine trees… almost can’t smell the breath of the times. After the curtain of the New Culture Movement was lifted, there was also a dispute between the “innovators” and the “quintessences” in the Chinese painting circle. A group of artists who advocated to absorb foreign cultures from a macro perspective went to various countries to learn other national arts, hoping to give back to the time. The artistic realm of the painting is filled with fresh water, and its representative figures such as Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian, Liu Haisu and so on.
Someone once suggested that the creation of oil paintings should strictly follow the “orthodox” style of the West. However, Chinese oil painters, consciously or unconsciously, will have their own national culture infiltrated in their perception, technical skills, etc. This is unavoidable. At the same time, oil painting has been in the West for hundreds of years, and too many masters, schools and styles have emerged. If Chinese artists copy Western models completely, the hope of surpassing is very slim.
Therefore, at the beginning of the last century, Lin Fengmian, who studied Western art in Paris for seven years, once wrote in despair: “I can’t understand why there are so many styles?”
If he could travel through time, he should have listened to a voice from a small town in southern Paris decades ago. It was Van Gogh’s muttering to himself when he wrote to his younger brother: “Theo, if you want to grow, you must Buried in the ground.”
After numerous hesitations, pains, and reflections, this group of oil painters who “learned from the classics” gradually reached a consensus in their concepts: Chinese oil paintings can only be deeply rooted in national culture, rooted in local culture, and integrate the expression techniques and philosophical thinking of Chinese painting. In the creation, Fang is the best strategy.
Chinese oil painting is no longer a copy of European oil painting. It does not matter whether it is “pure” or not. What is important is what kind of cultural transformation it has carried out, and how it has creatively developed the oriental charm of oil painting art and promoted oil painting art through this. Contemporary development.
And going out of the West and looking back at Chinese culture is certainly not a return of simple meaning. It is a mature choice. It is a deliberate consideration after the local accent has not been changed. It is a thoughtful exploration of self-tradition, and it is an insight into the worthiness of all mankind. After the aesthetic tone of thinking, starting from the artist’s own characteristics, he is based on the local and vertical pursuit of Chinese and Western realm.
This is a new path for the future of Chinese painting by the older generation of artists. In fact, foreign oil paintings also have an objective need for localization of art. Hegel once said that the most important thing about art is always its direct comprehensibility. In fact, all nations demand that what makes them happy in art can express themselves, because they want to feel that everything is in art. Close, vivid, and belonging to the current life.
Time flies. To this day, the exploration of the Sinicization of oil paintings continues with the integration of the best Western art practices into the enduring Chinese spirit.
At 21:00 tonight, the second issue of the second season of “Looking to be an Old Friend”, listen to Xu Li, vice chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, talk about how to integrate multiple painting styles and carry out creative explorations of Chinese and Western art, and then achieve a unique achievement Chinese oil painting style.
In the oil painting bottle, the wine filled with Chinese connotation, swaying slightly, full of fragrance in the room.
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