Northern Grasslands Ethnic Nomadic Theme Painting, Creative Practice And Research

The wide grassland to the north and south of desert is the cradle of northern ethical nations. Their ancestors had lived here and created brilliant grassland culture. The Mongolian nationality is the excellent representative of northern nationalities living on grassland, thus its old traditional and folk art has forged profound cultural spirit and long-lasting folk custom. These ancient cultural traditions have exerted great influence upon artists whose theme of creation is northern nomadic nationalities living on grassland. As realism wanes and art noumenon prevails since the middle of 1980s', the divinity of art had made place for humanism, and the grand topic of politics has been replaced by folk life and their sentiment which had become the main topic for artists of that era to express. The theme of northern nomadic nationalities provides a topic of humane concern and original tension of life. The paintings on Mongolian nationality have become an important style of Chinese figure painting after the ' 85 new wave, and have taken the lead in the development of Chinese figure painting.The dissertation of Practice and Research of Paintings on Northern Nomadic Nationalities is divided into five chapters in which I expatiate from five different angles the historic and realistic meanings of northern nomadic nationalities paintings on the contemporary neo-realism Chinese figure paintings. This dissertation tries to sort out the historic inheritance as well as the characteristics of representative artists, representative works and schools; and complete the transition process from theory exploration to work practice through the development of paintings on northern nomadic nationalities.The first chapter, the history of paintings on northern nomadic nationalities, introduces that the paintings on nomadism originated from ancient times, formed during Southern and Northern Dynasties, prospered during Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties. It explores the historic origin of paintings on northern nomadism through history. The second chapter Chinese contemporary paintings of northern nomadic nationalities analyzes the styles and some representative excellent works of important figure painters who create on topic of northern nomadic nationalities and are from the realm of contemporary Chinese paintings and oil paintings. The basis of northern grassland painting school and its research status analyzes the historic inheritance of northern grassland painting school, its important representatives and works through two parts, one is about the formation of northern grassland painting source and its meaning in history, and the other is the formation of grassland painting and its meaning. The elements of northern nomadic nationalities paintings expatiates the important function of original symbols of grassland on painters who create on topic of Mogolian nomadism from four aspects, which are grassland ties, characterisitc of nomadism and horse culture, felt tent and ethical clothes. The exploration in practice on paintings of Mogolian expatiates my learning experience in boneless painting through Mr. Li Kuizheng's mordern teaching system' s function and value on contemporary Chinese painting.The conclusion of this research could be summarized as the followings: 1.the relationship between form exploration and ethical life in works of nomadic nationalities; 2. the broadening of topics and the contemporary creation effect of folk scenes; 3. Chinese figure paintings of contemporary new-realism first developed in paintings on nomadic nationalities.