What historical changes has Chinese painting experienced as it transitioned from traditional to modern forms?

Chinese painting in the 100 years of the 20th century can be roughly divided into two transformation periods (one is the first half of the 20th century, and the other is the beginning of the 1980s and runs through to modern times); two special periods (the 1930s to the end of the 1940s).

war period; the Cultural Revolution period from the 1960s to the late 1970s), a unitary closed period (from the 1950s to the mid-1960s, its alienated form was the emptiness, division, internal friction, and self-concealment of the Cultural Revolution period), a pluralistic and open period (20

1980s to the end of the century); each historical period overlaps in time, and its evolution is sometimes continuous and sometimes discontinuous.

This article covers only two transition periods.

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The First Transformation Period (the first half of the 20th century) The cultural background of the first transformation period The transformation of Chinese painting is the transformation from traditional old Chinese painting to modernity, and from the classical form to the modern form.

Modern renewal and reconstruction from aesthetic orientation to formal beauty principles.

The transformation of Chinese painting into modernity began in the late Qing Dynasty and accelerated with the May Fourth Movement.

It is taking a path of multiple sources, multiple streams, intertwining and evolution.

There are distant sources and near sources, internal causes and external conditions.

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The second transformation period is when Chinese painting has experienced various hardships in history, accumulated energy for nearly a century, and is ready for development.

The east wind of reform and opening up has enabled Chinese painting to come out of the monolithic isolation and embark on a grand scale of re-transformation. Regardless of the type of painting or painting discipline, regardless of the composition of the Chinese painting team, it is unmatched in the first transformation period.

After experiencing the baptism of the New Culture Movement, the art of Chinese painting should have been liberated and developed along the road of openness, but what followed was long-term war.

In particular, the Japanese war of aggression against China blocked the normal development of Chinese painting art.

Japan's invasion of China was the destruction of culture.

Its negative impact on Chinese history, culture and art cannot be overestimated.

The Japanese government will never be able to repay this debt.

In the special period of fighting to save the nation, Chinese painting exposed its own weakness of lack of combat effectiveness and seemed powerless for a while, especially landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting.

It has caused some Chinese painters to change their paintings to paintings that are highly combative and time-sensitive.

In addition, Chinese figure painting, which traditionally advocates truth, goodness and beauty, absorbed and transformed Western painting methods to form its own realism and participate in social struggles. It first reflected the true face of the times and improved the expressiveness of the painting.