To the Birth of the Chinese Avant-Garde: Rationalist Painting in the mid-1980s
Rationalist painting as one of the leading art movements of the Chinese vanguard art plays an important role in the art development process in the mid- 1980s in China. The origins of the formation of Rationalist painting are directly related to the Hermeneutics school, whereby the Chinese artists were able to get acquainted with the philosophical and theoretical materials of Western philosophers of modernism and postmodernism, as well as the basics of contemporary art in Western Europe and America. Analyzing the problem of the definition of «rational» for the artists of the Chinese vanguard art, as well as examining the origins of that art movement formation, enable to define ideological, conceptual, artistic and aesthetic specifics of Rationalist painting in China in the mid’80s of the XX century.