Stretching And Transmutation

As the most important creative style and thought of the 20th century's Chinese art procession, the realism art has always been concerned widely. Today, the realism art in China has gone through nearly a hundred years history of development. Especially, the reform and opening up 30 years is the major transitional period of the realism art-from the short-lived revival, marginalized and today's renewed focus on it, the realism art seems to be the beginning of a new cycle of. And how to understand the neo-realism art; the difference between the neo-realism art and the traditional realism art; what kind of position of the neo-realism art under today's art world; and where is the neo-realism art going. All of these are the questions about the neo-realism art under the historical transition. Getting out of the mess of these problems is critical important to the development of the realism art.The focus of my text is combing and showing up the history of the realism art which from the year 1978 to 2008, meanwhile periodic dividing the realism art based on artists and works emerged in different periods during the 30years, as well as the thoughts, ideas and cultural policy context which had impacted artistic creation during this period.The significance of classification lies in the fact, not only finding out the underlying cause that how the realism art creative styles had shaped at different times, and the value of various forms and styles which the realism art has shown, but also finding out the underlying connect of mutual interdependence, impact and even rebellion, thus we can render a complete ecological patterns of the neo-realism art development during the 30years.Besides the introduction and other discussion, the text is divided into four chapters, that embodies the author's understanding and judgments on the realism art development stages during the past 30years. In the introduction, I first give a simple backtracking on the development history of the realism art, especially the process since the New Culture Movement in China, it had been gradually realized, accepted and rebuilded. This could present the conformation characteristics of the traditional realism art on a certain extent and become the comparison between the neo-realism art. In addition, the introduction also describes the significance of these article topics, the status of it, the article's innovative point and the overall structure.The first chapter is scar art time, reveals the characteristics and causes of human nature in the works of the scars as well as the Sichuan School of painting group through showing the social thoughts and ideas in the post Cultural Revolution. Chapter two is representative of the local realism, I think this is a development peak of the realism art before 1985's trendy art. I take Chen Danqing, Luo Zhongli and He Duoling as cases to analysis, thus showing the special form and historical value of the local realism art through the studies of this three people's represented of consciousness stream, farmer wind and educated youth art. Chapter three is presented the cynical realism art during the post 1989 period. In the chapter, I have taken a detailed elaboration about the specific period post 1989's artistic ecology as well as the formation and development process of the artistic new generation. Especially analysis and discuss deeply on the motivation of artists' aesthetic pursuit in the special history time as cynicism, Popi, gaudiness and so on. And this chapter would also like to deny the one-sided understanding of the relationship between the realism and modernism, and I have come up with my own understanding and views. Chapter four is the focus chapter of this article, to give a theoretical interpretation and phenomenon showing about the rapid recovery and development of the realism art during the time after mid 20th century. I have shown the process that the realism art returning to the mainstream from the edge step by step, and the contemporary value of reconstructing the realism art. At the same time, I have shown the realistic artists of this period as group-oriented presentation according to their performance of subjects, creative methods and attention to the different issues. And through a large number of works of analysis, the readers can distinguish the difference between the neo-realism art and the traditional realism art while showing the various styles of the neo-realism art. The other discussion is based on the judgment of the neo-realism art's features and development state, that the realism art return to the mainstream art history is inevitable.