Zhou Shaohua's artistic point of view

Into the depths of Chinese painting's aesthetic thought

The redevelopment of Chinese painting requires not only the leadership of forward-looking thought and works of original significance, but also theoretical support; not only does it require the inheritance of 5,000 years of cultural traditions, but also the fusion of tradition and contemporaneity; and in particular, it needs to be combined with the times. For a painter, what flows under his brush is, in a way, not just form, not just language, but contemporary culture. That is why today we are going to talk about the aesthetic thought of Chinese painting and the culture of Chinese painting.

Finding the Source and Tracing the Roots

The proposition of "Finding the Source and Tracing the Roots" is triggered by the collision between "globalization and Chinese culture" in Chinese painting. Whether the relationship between Chinese culture and globalization is compatible with each other or mutually destructive, how to cope with it, how to turn around, to grasp this historical opportunity, not to avoid the contradictions, to participate in this historical process, to create their own history, and to design their own future, this is a major problem in front of the people of the time.

Cognizing and grasping the root cause is the way to solve the essential problem. To this end, the first thing I would like to do is to sort out the cultural heritage and reinterpret the traditions. To view the past and learn from the past is to turn the canon into a treasure for the future, not to go backward but forward, and to establish the core value of the indigeneity of Chinese art. This is to establish the core value of Chinese art's indigeneity, so that the Chinese cultural lineage will not be diluted by heterogeneous cultures, but also to make a transition to modernity - a cultural mission of epochal proportions. It is only by taking the initiative to lead Chinese culture consciously to meet globalization, to stand rationally in today's world and ask for and disseminate it to mankind, that it can have constructive significance to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It is therefore essential to address the Chinese subjectivity and internationalization of contemporary art, and to integrate Chinese art with global vision and modern thinking, which is the main point of this volume. Without localization, Chinese art will lose its national identity and discourse; without internationalization, Chinese contemporary art will hardly enter the international arena, and thus will lose its local vitality. To implement this fundamentally, both for China and for the world, because China is the China of the world, is the core concept of transformation. But we must reflect on the concept of literati painting, which is "unappetizing" on this road. Contemporary artists should breathe with the destiny of the nation, the state and the times, and stay close to the times, the people and the life, in order to enter into the state of contemporary art. Under the impact of modern civilization and diversified civilizations, Chinese civilization has ushered in the challenge and opportunity of reconstruction and regeneration. It is a cultural awakening to integrate truth, goodness and beauty with modern humanism and to reshape the Chinese humanism. It is a cultural awakening to implement the construction of the language of contemporary Chinese painting not only to the guardianship of cultural tradition, but also to the care of contemporary reality and the historical subjectivity of the construction of the language of contemporary art, and to give the cultural tradition a modern and contemporary meaning, which is the main purpose of searching for the source and tracing the root.