The Modernity Of Form And Representation And The Return Of Culture And Spirit

This paper starts with the all-directional researches on the national style and artist achievement of traditional Chinese realistic figure painting, which stimulates thinking on the continuity of the national character against the diversified background of contemporary elaborate-style figure painting and expatiats on the origins of traditional and modern art. Especially with the frame of heritage the traditional Chinese realistic figure painting may take on, we make in-depth and careful instance studies and analysis on the history of distinctive features, continuity of national spirit, the new look of pluralistic development and the return of cultural spirit through a large number of outstanding masterpieces and interprets the features and inner inevitability of traditional Chinese realistic figure painting against diversified background. In hope of straightening out clear venation of the heritance and innovation in traditional culture, we endeavor to preserve the national character and modernity better in the process of fusion with foreign culture, in order to realize further development of Chinese realistic figure painting.By researching on the continuation of national spirit of Chinese realistic figure painting, this paper makes the point that it has the consistent heritage in such respects of art notion, material and medium, form and character. And it explores traditional artistic logos, which makes us acquaint ourselves with deep historic essence and humanistic foundation. To take a step further, it makes us more aware of the traditional connotation of Chinese realistic figure painting and find the reasonable joint of national tradition and modern form.The contemporary classical Chinese realistic figure painters like Jiang Caiping, He Jiaying, Hu Mingzhe, Wang Guanjun, whose masterpieces may represent the multi-style and multiplex look of Chinese realistic figure painting against multi-background. A style and form of diversity makes in common Chinese realist figure painting in full flourish. Whatever great development and innovation that art achieves, it can not be done without art tradition. Only if establishment the predominant tradition firmly, exploring native culture reserves and intellectual resources, mastering traditional artistic forms and logos, and preserving one's own original painting characteristics all the time, we can occupy more extending space for the artistic innovation in the future.