Strictly speaking, "painting" is just a general term. Generally speaking, its connotation has broad and narrow meanings in application. In a broad sense, "painting" is widely used to describe or explain other artistic categories (such as sculpture, photography, etc.) similar to painting. ) In addition to painting.
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The narrow definition of painting is much more complicated. Scholar Duan Lian once defined paintability in The Last Avant-garde written for Whitney Biennale in 1997: "The so-called paintability not only refers to figurative modeling, but mainly refers to the inspiration of the production characteristics of works to people's comprehensive feelings and thinking ability, and refers to the restriction of artistic objects and the sensitivity of appreciation subjects."
The connotation of "painting" in China's contemporary art has also undergone a transformation process. In the early 1980s, the problem of "painting" was concealed under the discussion of artistic standards.
Wu Guanzhong, who has been obsessed with the exploration of formal beauty, published "Formal Beauty in Painting" in Art magazine from 65438 to 0979, and later published "About Abstract Beauty" and "Content Determines Form", thus proposing that the standard of art lies in form.
1In August, 980, Fine Arts magazine published the article "Self-expression should not be regarded as the essence of painting", which subsequently triggered a big discussion on the issue of "self-expression". These arguments about artistic standards or artistic essence are actually arguments about "painting", which reflect the different development and changes of contemporary art in China.
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