Application Of Red In Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting

In the oil painting art, color is the main means of performance of painting, but also has the independent aesthetic value, the abundant expression power of oil painting and the resulting emotional strength, which can be set up a communication bridge between the artists and the audience’s mind. Color as an important language of oil painting,with extraordinary artistic expression. And one of the red as the color of the three primary colors, the color characteristics in contemporary oil painting was just right, not only the surface of many meanings, there are more deep symbolic meaning. In contemporary painting, red is not just a simple objective color of the object depicted with the reflect, but also a political and culture carrier, contains a wealth of ideas, cultural and historical significance.Red is one of the color that many artists love, no matter in the west or in the east since ancient times. Many religious figures of the early European tempera painting is transparent techniques drawn a red robe, hood dyed red both simple and subtle, exudes moisturizing color, has red pigment in Europe named after the painter name at that time, such as Anjilike red and Bellini red. Red in Velazquez and Rembrandt’s paintings seem rich and dignified, to Rubens and Delacroix become vibrant and assertive. In China, red has a special feeling for people. Red is the color of the festival essential to life; is the soul of the Chinese people, is the spirit of the Chinese nation. The Chinese contemporary oil painters, such as red canna series of Cai Jin, Zhang Xiao Gang’s bloodline series, Feng Zheng Jie’s portrait and cool series, Zhou Chun Ya’s peach aromatic series and so on, red is one of the color that used by the painters repeatedly in the contemporary art, whether it is performed directly, or very little use, from different angle to the red form language and symbolic meaning to make a different explanation. The article by the red color in contemporary Chinese painting in different performance, under different use of the means and intent to produce a different visual schema analysis, which caused to the artist or artistic phenomena thinking.Red is not only the surface of many meanings, but also with more symbolism meaning. Because of the exceptionally bright red, people like to use red to represent females, such as "confidant","red makeup"etc, red as a symbol of festival, blood, and life and so on, and then back to ancient times, humans has already know how to use the red, from cavemen "wearable with hematite dyed", sprinkle red ocher powder to ward off evil beside the body of Caesar, hope the deceased afterlife can regenerate, to Chinese red revolution, red for them is not only a physiological feelings of stimulation, but contains a concept meaning. In other words, the red imagination is given human society, the unique concept of symbolic meaning.But in contemporary Chinese oil painting, red has a complex and varied forms of expression and aesthetic language, the use of red technique, the red cultural meanings in different artistic practice showing different artistic effects, they are either the extension of the form or the contents of the rich, is an artist on the results of the research and analysis of the use of red. From the early use of red to contemporary oil paintings, as Pop, Gaudy, Cartoon, Realism, Woman’s art, or a single artist’s works, red is different with its original meaning use by any one person or group of people, it is precisely because of this ambiguity presents, to ensure that we have analyzed its distinction possible, such as red in Wang Yi Dong and Cai Jin’s pictures of different significance of reference, and the different red in Gaudy or female’s art manifestations. And this kind of form and meaning in different cause problems and thinking is also involved in this article. This article is based on the red to the contemporary oil painting in some phenomena and made some depth analysis.