The Construction Of Male Hero Image In "Seventeen Years" Visual Art Works

In the present,both of the research on the "seventeen-year" art and the research on male image have made fruitful achievements,however,there are still many research contents that need to be enriched,which can be made new attempts and expansions from the perspective of research,research objects and research methods.The existing research on the "seventeen-year" art mainly covers the fields of literature,film,opera,art,architecture,music,dance,etc.Among these,the study of character images focuses on national minority,female images,intellectuals and the middle figure,and also mostly exists in the discussion and research of traditional literary texts,while the attention to male images is less than that,especially in the field of visual sense;Meanwhile,the study on masculinity which is used as the entry point for research is more common in the field of literature,especially in the study of Western literature.In domestic visual art,it is even less involved.After building up the New China,the new regime faced to establish a new vision system and aesthetic logic belongs to themselves to sever the link with the past,and to show the legitimacy,rationality and inevitability of its own political power and ideology.The male heroes in visual art are given the right to write down this historical discourse.They not only form the visual landscape of the ideal male in Mao's,but also provide a new perspective for clarifying this history.In view of this,this thesis will focus on the male hero images in the "seventeenyear" visual art(mainly contains film,drama and art),which not only breaks the barrier of the single art category but also takes male images particularly the most representative hero images of the period as the main research content,and aims to illustrate how ideology enters into art field by the identity of male hero image,and then influences the temperament construction of male images in reality and also has an impact on social and political life.The research value of this time dimension lies in the historic link between the past and the future.It not only inherits the principles of realism and the spirit of Yan'an Literary conference since the 1930 s and 1940 s,but also establishes basis of the "three prominent" principle during the Cultural Revolution.Therefore,this article takes the images of male hero in the "seventeen-year" visual art as the research object,will further elaborate on the subject regarding of the specific aspects instead of taking linear time as an index,through the strata from historical and cultural context,also phenomenon representation to identity methods.This thesis will be divided into five parts to refer to male hero images during this period.The first chapter will interpret the political,economic,cultural and artistic policies and diplomatic environment which are generated by the "seventeen years" visual art from the background of macro history,aiming to reveal the historical inevitability of the male hero image;The second chapter will analyze the intrinsic characteristics of the specific male hero image,including leader,hero model and labor model;The third chapter,as a continuation of the second chapter,explains how to turn the inner temperament and spirit of visual art into visible and tangible images,that is,from the three dimensions of face,clothing and actor performance;The fourth chapter combines the audio-visual impact of extreme "revolutionization" with exaggerated audio-visual language to analyze the audio-visual means of constructing male hero images.The fifth chapter will be the foothold of this thesis,bringing practical significance of research questions.That is through the male hero images in the "seventeen-year" visual art conducting bidirectional communication and consideration between the past and the present while paying attention to their influence and revelation on the present.Therefore,the study of male hero images in the "seventeen-year" visual art is not only a supplement to the artistic research during this historical period,but also an opportunity to reflect on the current male images.