Properties Of The Materials And Painting Concept

The artistic development history can also be regarded as the history that artistic form language develops unceasingly, after innumerable artists' creation and exploration, the art history conception field has been nearly completed as far as to modeling and color. Therefore, idea and material have dominated artists new exploring and creating space since the late-20th century.To know materials and to understand their several characteristics is very helpful for us to understand the developments and extensions of paintings idea and the established base of "grand painting" discussion. The material first functions as the original point in an artistic creating process which has been proved by many contemporary artists artworks style; Secondly, material has symbolic and autobiographical nature which is easy to cause corresponding sympathetic chord and cultural association of the audience; Thirdly, material also has ethological nature and creates multi-dimensional space relations on a two-dimensional base.The material multiplication brings massive things which are already existed entering painting territory, thus causes the boundary between "frame" artwork and "non-frame' artwork is becoming more and more blur and initiates the conception of "grand painting". In terms of form division, "grand painting" includes not only the frame painting-this kind of traditional artistic form, but also includes installation painting, painting installation or environmental painting which combines painting, environment and installation, as well as perceptional art or live-creating painting which contains performance art. In terms of time, "grand painting" refers to all the artworks in the whole painting history. In terms of function, "grand painting" signifies pure artworks but also people ubiquitous contacts with paintings in their real life."Grand painting" is a conception and a more essential and comprehensive angel as well to understand painting, therefore, it can remind us to discover and pay more attention to some characteristics and values of paintings which are neglected for a long time and help us to do more meaningful artistic creation.