Changes Of Interpretation In China Since1978Oil Painting Peasant Themes

China’s reform and opening up have brought economic development, social environment, culture, and lifestyle changes.At the same time it is30years of contemporary art’s most active period, creating fine art presents a scene of prosperity.Farmer image is the most important Chinese image, one of the most common, it runs through all stages in the history of contemporary Chinese art, which makes contemporary art history is full of peasants’and farmers’comments and description of the image.As society changes, China’s farmers also keep changing the image in the painting.Since the last century80’s, farmer of social development makes the reality of great changes have taken place.Farmer theme changes have taken place in the past in many ways, showing many of the new means of expression and manifestation, formed after entering the21st century, a new pattern.Farmers topics oil painting now, diversification, personalization has become to farmers’basic requirements for subject-painting artist, before reform and opening is relatively single style after the reform and opening up in the form of realism, symbolism, Expressionism, classicism and diverse style, painting peasant themes in terms of content, presentation, performance observation angle is changed. Farmers as a Prism, reflects China’s social changes of30tracks, but also to remind people, as a group that accounted for the largest proportion, is how it affects the process of Chinese society, including art history course.All in all, respect peasants, real respect life, respect the law of artistic creation, these three interrelated and should not be divided, starting point of the image is a performance artist living in rural areas and farmers.