The Spirit Of The Time

The "PARADIGM" conception of American historian Thomas Kuhn first appeared in his own works "The Structure of Scientific Revolution" in the1960’s. Kuhn’s "PARADIGW" conception is a methodology, insisting that every developed stage of science has it own special internal form structure. And the mould reflecting this form structure is "PARADIGM".This passage first proves PARADIGM conception exists in the developed history of oil painting. It can come out one conclusion: oil painting has gone through following three different PARADIGM stages: the oil painting PARADIGM of ancient Greek Imitation theory; the oil painting PARADIGM of modernism; the oil painting PARADIGM of post-modernism. At the same time it also proves the changing schools of oil painting and the different properties in the changing of oil painting PARADIGM. It also studies for the essence of PARADIGM’s development and its relationship with modern spirit.By using the PARADIGM conception for analyzing, this passage also researches the Chinese oil painting art under many different schools and different political ideologies. From the factor of art development, respectively introduce following oil paintings: the oil painting of Shanghai Tushangwan of late Qing dynasty; Shi San Hang oil painting of Guangzhou; realism oil painting of The Republic of China; modern oil painting; Chinese oil painting of Reconstruction Times after liberation; oil painting in the Great Cultural Revolution; oil painting of scar art; oil painting under85thought times and oil painting in the1990’s, etc.