Wang Guangyi's Research On Artistic Creation Of "Things-in-itself"

Wang Guangyi is one of the most representative artists in Chinese contemporary art since 1980 s.His art highlights the complex paradoxical logic in the process of Chinese contemporary art from the Enlightenment era to the avant-garde,post-modernism and consumption era.However,for a long time,his criticism and research have been mostly "political pop".The misunderstanding and limitation of commercial interpretation lacks deep case studies related to contemporary Chinese ideological history and visual culture.Wang Guangyi's artistic creation is rooted in the complex context of the medieval and contemporary society.Only by investigating Wang Guangyi in the context of contemporary culture can we ponder the meaning of "meaningful artist".Wang Guangyi's works are complex and varied in form,but the pursuit of " things-in-itself" has traces in every stage of creation.Based on Wang Guangyi's theme work "Things-in-itself" in the large-scale art retrospective exhibition on the 30 th anniversary of 2012,this paper studies Wang Guangyi's graphic analysm from rational painting in the northern polar period to post-classical period,from "clearing up humanistic enthusiasm" to structural "mass criticism";from the study of Chinese and Western political systems to indigenous rationalism.The process of artistic creation of the reconstruction of materialist visual mythology.In his artistic creation for more than 30 years,Wang Guangyi expressed his attitude towards the historical and cultural pattern,political society and artistic spirit by two different artistic ways of painting and installation,and further explained his profound understanding of the relationship between human existence and ideology.In the past 40 years of reform and opening up,Chinese fine arts have made many brilliant achievements,but at the same time,they are also facing the problem of how to develop and construct the discourse system of contemporary Chinese art.Wang Guangyi's artistic attitude and value orientation in artistic creation have important enlightenment for the construction of localized and contemporary Chinese contemporary art.Righteousness.