| Realism, as a kind of plastic arts, has a most coherence and consistent development in France. It prevailed from 1840 to 1970s and 1980s. On the basis of tightness observation to modern life, realism aims to reproduce a true, objective and fair reality.Due to varieties of reasons, some hidden realism features of reality canvas, from their entering into China, were already brewed. This paper will analysis the historical expansion of this realism from three ways of the process of transformation from western canvas to Chinese canvas in our country. Since the foundation of New China, Works with Morality, as a tool of realism, was widespread. From Soviet model to socialist realism, scar aesthetics and local realism, all these showed us a realism trace with Chinese characteristics. After Reform and Opening, with the impact of market economy, society real life has many conflicts with the ideology it expresses in many aspects. On the premise above mentioned, how many realities exist in official arts? The ideology power of official arts, which praises reality according to the demand of ideology, has very little influence nowadays, especially in the masses. Since the influence of official arts is going weaker and weaker, who will continue the trace of this realism in the next?The biggest problem in reality is, as we live in a world of image information, a broad concept of visual arts and visual culture is accepted by more and more young and middle-aged artists. We are around by rapidly developed audiovisual images, markers, and the sounds with no fixed location but wide influence. In such a kind of cultural situation, the boundaries between copy and reality, and the media and the truth become much more unclear. These media factors turn into our main experiences to the world by replacing the nature continually. The whole new realities bring us whole new experiences of existence. At the end of 1990s, the combination of new-generation canvas, movie and documentary photography played a paean of realism arts of our age.However, above works are challenged unavoidably, for their adopting of some images violated human's visual experience and their business profits far beyond old-generation revolutionaries. In the last part of this paper, we, by putting those artists in a bigger culture background and a bigger business background, try to analysis the reasons, advantages and disadvantages of it, thus get out a fair and objective judgment on this problem. |