The Research On The Popular Phenomenon Of Liu Xiaodong’s Artistic Works

The artistic thought of "popular" originated in the postmodern art. Artisticdemocratized tendency of art is to show the life of ordinary citizens, to explore therelationship between art and life, with particular emphasis on artists and audienceinteraction, emphasis on audience participation of works of art. Mr. Liu artisticthought of "popular" is closely linked to his artistic environment, its own backgroundand personal artistic concept.Mr. Liu as a representative of the "new generation" artistic characters, his workshas a typical "common" art style. Mr. Liu "popularization" artistic style, the first is theresult of "popularization", which is the artistic emotion life of ordinary people’s highattention. It determines its artistic subject matter of "popularization", depiction ofdaily life, and reflects his preference for the daily life by accident scene. But thischance has a certain inevitability, and is a kind of ordinary boring life of the presentstate of present, Mr. Liu for ordinary Chinese transitional in real life experience andpsychological state of understanding and interpretation. Second, Mr. Liu in the artisticcreation uses common art expression means shaping civil subjects,"LOMO" typerandom snap composition, Lucian Freud type of wild brush strokes, according to thepicture needs change rich color and the technique of traditional Chinese painting "staywhite", which is a realistic and the perfect combination of disconnection, a hidden inthe seemingly aimless realistic sense the presence of the purpose behind the freehandbrushwork in traditional Chinese painting, conveying to the audience an arbitrary.Mr. Liu’s "popular" art contains elite plot, and further cause us to think thedevelopment of Chinese contemporary art. Represented by Mr. Liu of Chinesecontemporary art are controlled by the elite manipulation, especially in the west’s elite,creating the elite thought values of civil art, the civil art eventually acceptingcommunity is the social elite. In this process, the art of commercial, self-discipline inretirement, alert us to think the way out of Chinese contemporary art. A kind of eliteart and popular art coexistence is the state, is a combination of both organic andself-discipline of art in a dominant position actively, commercial art in a passiveposition of being dominated.