Painting Chinese Contemporary Christian Artists Interpretation

The relationship between art and religion has always been an important research field in the theory of art and art history.The art history, standing in the scientific point of view, part of the content reflects the social,economic,religious, political, the culture and the history of war. More importantly, it reflects the human history--visual cognition of history, but also reflects the visual description of the human cognitive process that visual forms and symbols of human self create. These artists bring to the public is not only the image, but also something outside artistic works--a kind of brand-new attitude to review, review the life, the society and the definition of value and thinking of the subjective world and the objective world of human cognition.The bible stories attracted generations of artists deeply. The artists at different ages often brought into a lot of self imagination, many scenes of people’s life and views of things at that age when they describe its content and the stories. Through this part of works, we can see the visual history of the development of human society from another angle. Along with the development of history and the social progress of human civilization, the ideology of people have been changing and developing.Contemporary art has been liberated from the religion, it became one of the important driving force of the development of human civilization. China contemporary art needs spiritual dimension. Consider of the philosophical level, people as part of nature is quite limited, we must face the question of life and death. human is the "spiritual" exist, only humans have thought, only human beings can give all sorts of realization of life ultimate value and meaning of life, seeking to resolve the contradiction and the conflict between life and death.To the work of art itself, the sense is very different between the believers and non-believers. Faith is people’s choice and holding of the outlook on life, values and world view. In other words, the spiritual needs and the ultimate value concern, they can inspire artists endless thinking indeed, and become the source of its creation. Faith and ultimate concern is always closely related. Regardless of faith, people always hope they can get peace and their own happiness, get rid of the confusion and doubt in the objective world, and to achieve more value in the limited life, no matter what the faith is. Artists often select one theme to express their thinking and ideas for this problem, the thinking and expression of belief will be a source of inspiration for artists to create eternal, from ancient times to the present and even the future.Purely from the general appearance of a picture, the viewer pay more and more attention to the artist’s life background and creative purpose and philosophy. For the Christian painting, the key is how to convey the visual way, reflect the belief. This article will carry on the detailed interpretation of the formal language ofpainting, the appeal of picture and some of the most common Christian art symbols.Public opinions are divergent to the orientate of the Christians, such as personalized, mysticism, and transcendentalism, etc, these comments are worth thinking and discussion.In the preface,it mainly introduce the essence difference between "Christianity" and "Christian culture", and explores the internal relationship of them. With the faith and life and the original art works of the domestic artists with the Christian faith as the background, the preface deeply explore Chinese contemporary painting of Christ, and illustrates the reason for the existence of the Christian faith in contemporary Chinese art, the performance of the concrete object, scope of existence and its meaning of existence.The first part The difference between Christianity and Christian culture, doctrine, and religious differences.The second part combined with faith background, to analysis the artistic expression and interpret the painting language of believers painter.The third part expounds the profound significance of the beliefs of the artist’s values build.The conclusion part overview of the full text. In view of the various social criticism, on the basis of the above analysis, author put forward the own point of view.