Neo Rauch is the core of the "New Leipzig School of Painting" in Germany,and is also a popular contemporary easel painter.He learned a solid foundation of realism in East Germany,and gradually developed his own unique style after the reunification of Germany.In his paintings,Neo Rauch creatively combines concrete images with surreal abstract elements,incorporating a new narrative language into the painting,placing characters,animals,and symbols in mixed forms in familiar scenes,breaking the original connections,and reconstructing them to create new connections.The themes are mostly about depicting dilapidated industrial areas,oppressive laborers,gloomy and restless natural landscapes,with abstract symbols and unconventional spatial arrangements.It expresses a criticism of the social and cultural atmosphere,as well as exposure and criticism of practical issues.The public theme of integrating personal experience and collective experience promotes resonance between the audience and the painting works.In the portrayal of character images,scene spaces,or constructed image narratives,it evokes the familiar feelings of the audience.In addition,abstract elements seem to be an escape from the real society by the author,creating a dreamlike space.Compared to the old Leipzig school,Neo Rauch’s paintings are more dynamic,absorbing more new artistic techniques,and exhibiting a strong expressive force.Neo Rauch’s works construct a parallel world based on reality and divorced from reality for the viewer.The characters in the picture are intertwined between rationality and sensibility,and between contradiction and unity.The reason why he became a hot painter in contemporary art stems in large part from the charm of this contradiction,which gives people a vague sense of trance.The main content of this article is divided into four parts.Firstly,the artistic background of Neo Rauch and the transformation process of spatial consciousness,the theme expression,and the reasons for the formation of space;Secondly,there are two levels of spatial narrative: the first is the fragmentation of narrative methods,and the second is the differentiation of spatial narrative colors.The third author cuts into the public theme expression of the work from the perspective of reconstruction,further excavates the hidden meaning from the spatial narrative,and analyzes the elements constituting the public theme of the screen and the spatial expression form.The fourth part mainly elaborates the enlightenment significance of Neo Rauch to the author’s creative conception. |