The Value Of Self-portraits Oil Painting In Chinese Contemporary Art

The term of "Chinese contemporary art" are constantly emerging in our familiar journals, Self-portraited oil painting which has a very long history of works appears in front of the audience with no shirk of responsibilities. A new generation of artists break the traditional concept and methods of painting, perform a fresh interpretation of Art revolution. After a long development, self-portraited oil painting has evolved into an indispensable form of art, and this art form has its own artistic value, mainly reflected in its time-closely linked way of performance form and aesthetic ideas. Initially, self-portraited works'main functions are recording of individual artist images to express the artist personal feelings and life side. Developed along with the historical process of society, self-portraits gain the new value in contemporary art. They take the self-image as a symbol of time, use it as a tool to transfer information and idear to the public, using the most straightforward way to show the feeling of the most sensitive social issues. The coming out of this kind of self-portraited oil painting deserve a in-depth thinking.This article takes the main research direction about after 70' Cainozoic Era artist works meaning in the contemporary social. From critical realism drawing form and reflection idea image drawing form, discussion oil painting self-portrait in Chinese present age fine arts value and significance. In this paper, I expatiate the value of self-portraited oil painting in five aspects. First, the function and origin self-portraited oil painting, explore the art effectiveness and art value of self-portrait oil painting. Secondly, self-portraited oil painting in Chinese history, talk about the evolution and development Chinese self-portraited oil painting. Thirdly, the comparison of Chinese and Western self-portraited oil painting, discuss the succession and development of Chinese contemporary self-portraited oil painting. Fourthly, the siritual value of self-portraited oil painting in Chinese contemporary art. In the end, the features of contemporary self-portraited oil painting, enumerate the valuse in term of symbol, icon, market and concept. Also look forward to the development direction of self-portraited oil painting.