The Zeitgeist of Longyuan: The Simple and Honest Colors of Gansu Oil Paintings Selected for The 14th National Exhibition of Fine Arts

Xuanmin Yue

doi:10.62177/chst.v2i2.424

Authors

Xuanmin Yue Northwest Normal University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62177/chst.v2i2.424

Keywords:

The 14th National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Gansu, Zeitgeist

Abstract

“The 14th National Exhibition of Fine Arts Oil Painting Exhibition” Gansu selected fourteen pieces of oil paintings. Over the past five years, Gansu oil painters have firmly grasped the pulse of the new era, focusing on capturing the humanistic concern and scanning the reality of people's livelihood at the present time, and highlighting the spirit of the nation while embodying the aesthetic orientation of truth, goodness and beauty. This paper takes the current art exhibition of Gansu oil paintings as the vision, discusses the new changes of Gansu oil paintings in the new period, which not only shows that Gansu oil painters are based on Longyuan plateau land, promote the sense of responsibility and mission of Chinese excellent traditional culture in artistic creation. But also presents the simple color of Gansu oil paintings, expresses the development of the society and the historical changes in the language of oil paintings, and shapes the social life, political culture and people's image of Gansu in the new period, building up a unique Longyuan zeitgeist.

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