In the development of the whole society, arts play an irreplaceable role in a positive way to meet the spiritual needs of human beings. As a cultural symbol originated even earlier than the human language, art has provided a powerful spiritual support for the sustainable development of human society, and it allows human beings to think, to explore, and to express in order to fully enlighten the human intelligence. As an economic superstructure, arts will be subject to the economic development. Western countries take their economic advantages to promote art to a new level using a variety of strategies, which meanwhile has played a lead effect in the development of art in China. However, due to various reasons, China's contemporary arts can not escape from the nature of the operation mechanism of the West, so it seems impossible to truly establish a contemporary art with Chinese characteristics, a contemporary art to promote genuine political and economic development in China. National publicity and presentations by the many ways are the means of a nation to show the works of art development, and the authoritative national and world exhibition are undoubtedly the most direct and most common form.By analyzing the works from two five-year term Kassel and the Chinese Art Exhibition, the paper tries to sum up the human spirit in the West and to explain the role of arts in the context of contemporary visual culture? Until modern times, Western art has always maintained a high degree of real-life concerns and has been reflecting the feelings of people in modern society and understanding as well as criticism, showing the relationship between art and life so as to better the society situation and led to changes in social development. The contrast between the works tells how the spirit of the contemporary Chinese art finds the right orientation, as well as a discussion of whether the historical mission of art and the literal culture have the same responsibility? Whether the Chinese arts have showed the responsibility of artists and how to come up with the works that can meet the needs of contemporary people and guidelines for the social development? In painting practice, we should adhere to this purpose, and to accumulate a large number of skills, experience and materials from life, efforts to achieve the mission responsibilities of contemporary art, to create a large number of art works of universal significance. |