The Contemporary Portrait

Since90time, Chinese contemporary art with China’s further opening up, showing a complex, multivariate situation, various avant-garde art and new ideas, and experimental emerge in an endless stream media. Over85of the western modernism trend since90time imitation, contemporary art began to focus on the present reality of China, artists began to explore and try to express the history, reality and individual living condition relations, to individual consciousness in Contemporary Chinese social problem. As political pop, Cynical Realism, gaudy art. Appeared as Wang Guangyi, Zhou Chunya, Liu Xiaodong and so on easel painting represents, at the same time a new concept, device, new media and other art forms in the strong impact on the traditional easel painting. Mao Yan is in the restless90time graduated from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and the full of classical mood and School of painting skills of the" lone ranger" but in his so-called conceptual portrait becomes the contemporary art important and difficult to classify the symbol of Mao Yan’s painting language, is the classic, traditional, but Mao Yan in the best painting ethics based on a contemporary sense was born with the ethos or catch contemporary people’s mental state. I think one of the reasons this is Mao Yan on the realistic painting language way explore actively, on the other hand it also in Chinese contemporary cultural context of natural expansion. Mao Yan’s art was undoubtedly I explore the traditional drawing language especially classical language in the expression of possibilities provided by the research model and case. How to use traditional language close to and reveals the inner world of contemporary people, Mao Yan’s painting of contemporary.Based on the Mao Yan art language and Mao Yan’s art history and theory of art of contemporary Chinese art in the cultural context as the objective basis of the painter’s work, language style, the theme as well as the contemporary transformation of traditional language and contemporary of objective analysis and discussion. Papers from the chapter structure, the full text is divided into four parts:The first part of the paper introduction. Introduces the research of concept, category, meaning and innovation, and the existing related research situation makes brief introduction and review of papers, research ideas and research methods, clarifies the writing features.The second part begins to enter the. Mainly elaborated" the art of Mao Yan process and representative works in different periods and of Mao Yan’s view of art", combing the artist’s creation background and logic.The third part mainly discusses Mao Yan’s painting language origin and formation, explore the traditional realistic language expansion.The fourth part mainly discusses the realistic painting and portrait theme in the contemporary context of seeking the possibility and significance of contemporary.Some of the major conclusions of the Mao Yan painting art are summarized, and pointed out that the Mao Yan art influence and significance.In research methods, on the basis of the painter’s art idea and image characteristics, combined with the time background, history and other related disciplines of knowledge, Mao Yan works on the most essential factors of image character to do a detailed discussion and analysis.