Study on the Achievements of Chinese Representational Painting and Its Contemporary Enlightenment
The development of representational expressive art in China has led to the transformation of basic methodology of painting. Although it had conflict on traditional painting consciousness, it was also accepted by a group of artists with advanced thoughts and artistic sensitivities. Based on the current situation of the development of representational painting, first analyzes the basic connotation and the artistic pursuit of characteristics, and then introduces the representational painting theory in China achievements, according to the above content, makes judgment for the development tendency of contemporary representational painting, and it also hopes to Chinese representational painting and improve the level of creating conditions. With the development of cultural globalization, the current world on the definition of art has become increasingly blurred, whether it is from the traditional concept or content or media, gradually towards diversification and comprehensive development, and everyone is an artist who has gradually become a trend. Now, contemporary art has exposed the cruelty, and the age of high tech image has been overflowing, it can’t be sure where is the painting meaning, this is placed in front of a Chinese artist with a sense of profound thinking and historical mission which includes Chinese contemporary representational paintings. In order to further analyze the development achievements of Chinese representational painting and the enlightenment for the whole art field, we must first recognize the basic connotation and artistic pursuit of representational expressive painting. Part One the Basic Connotation and Artistic Pursuit of Representational Painting “Representational Expressionism” was originated from France in the last 70s, and the theory of painting has a background and tendency of phenomenology, in the last century in 90s, it was brought into the mainland of China by the Chinese French painter and art theorist Stuart Li. The original “representational painting” which is a unique vocabulary was used to describe a number of Europe “painter”, (1) such as Jacques May Siti, Morandi, Moriyama, Arica, Raymond Masson and so on, and the representational painting is the inheritance and development of a spirit of western traditional painting and the combination of contemporary art and philosophy with painting that against the abstract art to promote the use of phenomenological point of view to see all things in the world, and it can go out to a middle of the road, while it is not a style, not a painting form, and it is not a doctrine, but it is a painter's way of viewing and attitude which shows a persistent exploration of the existence of the artist, nature, history, nationality, destiny theme and deep thinking with the characteristics of ideas and originality. With the introduction of the representational painting 8th International Conference on Social Network, Communication and Education (SNCE 2018) Copyright © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Computer Science Research, volume 83