Since the 80's last century of social change in China during the most intense, society itself is a great testing ground, the arts become a natural part of the site. Historically, this period requires not only a new art, but also a good breeding ground for new artistic soil. Comparison of the past, this period is the most prominent phenomenon: the emergence of trendy art and art market.

China's New Wave-style art is four: the "Cultural Revolution" to the end of the early 80s is the first stage. The first generation of experimental artists, many of them are thinking of the participants in the liberation movement, which during the experimental art is part of this campaign, there is the value of sociology. Deep sense of community and people's hearts about this part of the aspirations of the artist's creative tendencies, and through some records and works of art were shown. 1980 to 1989 is the second stage. The artist and the ultimate level of the spirit of the question, is the art of this period the real purpose of fashion. Art forms of testing and changes in thinking progress is being brought up demand. For example,
At that time, the desire for Western culture, there is the tendency of Western art. From 1989 to 1993 period is basically a blank state. After the New Wave of Fine Arts in 1993 and active up to 2000 is the third stage, basically a "curator for the stage of the West." After 2000 is the fourth stage, as China's colorful changes, as well as the Government's attitude to promote a new culture, in particular the arts and the Western system of direct contact, get rid of the mystery, trendy art shifted from access to China's reality resources of China to find. However, this "Chineseness" was quickly exploited by the market.

These stages, reflecting the Chinese arts of Western modern art the process of understanding and deepen. This process is from the early days, "the extent of the percentage of Westernization" dimension of the debate began. As information increases, the Western understanding of the modern theory, in particular to facilitate exchange and provide a direct contact and the opportunity to work together on the Western culture of artists who are interested in the West come to understand how the story of modern art at the same time, also see its shortcomings. The most valuable are: understanding the results of the West is to help us understand the Orient. Our understanding of the West, much to our understanding of them and more and more.

China's arts community for their understanding of cultural values, as more than a completely different system and a strong reference to the same, and they are objective, sensitive and in-depth. The more contact with the West, the more value their own culture. Conscious and take the initiative to try to examine China's experience of modern art, there are special and the arts than in the West sharp angle. For example, our Western contemporary art, especially with the sensitive issue of public relations, it is our deep-rooted background of socialist education, "Art for the people" philosophy at work. China has very rich experience level, is not only the ancient traditions, as well as
The socialist tradition, the "Cultural Revolution" of the experience, the practice of reform and opening-up experience, all the nutrients should not be wasted. These nutrients, combined with external nutrition, after mixing, will it be possible to have a third component: the component that is rare and is useful for the future composition of cultural construction.

In recent years, due to the rise of China, the arts as a sensitive part of the ideology has led the international community's interest in Chinese contemporary art. China with a strong sense of reality (either surface or internal) works more attention. Artists active from the wealth of the social reality around them to find inspiration for the arts, the beginning of the independence, ignoring the framework of modern Western art of the art practice. This is a promising direction, but it is, after all, is a new topic is currently able to see the aspirations of such efforts, but the contribution of language in the arts, but also do not see the contribution of particular value.

Specific fashion to talk about the new era since the meaning of art, I think there are two points: First, it has played a Chinese art before the international contact with the role of exercise, this is the future of Chinese art, a vision of the necessary steps and processes. In fact, had never had Chinese art and international contemporary art experience in the real world. Second, as China began a new artistic creation and life. Before the New Wave of Chinese art, literature and art as a result of Mao Zedong's ideological extremism of the understanding and implementation of the older generation of artists in depth the results of life, just stay in the form of follow,On the contrary to make this experience evolved into the custom capture and study specimens. Living in remote areas, keeping pace with the breath of life as the most reliable basis, it seems farmer who found the north and south of the different farmer, found the will to live. This local phenomenon and to meet interesting, so creative at the surface, the trivial, the literati style of the narrow ring fence, the loss of life of the times and the overall spirit of the nature of the grasp. Artists and art institutions around the students do not feel the true reality of social change, but immersed in a kind of "socialism with pastoral arts" in the. New Wave artists at the same time emphasizing individuality, but also attempt to confront their own Close to reality, and explore the art and real life relationship, which is I think the most meaningful part.

Turning to the limitations of the Chinese New Wave Art, and some are born with, because it and other regions of the world as in the case of modern art in the West under the broad framework for the use of other people's words as a standard. The result is that China's art and fashion culture and the arts in their own methods, in the context is out of touch, it also led to the Chinese society and the public out of touch. This phenomenon in particular from 1993 to 2000 the second time between the rise of the New Wave era. By the end of the century, fashion has become increasingly small circle of Fine Arts and curator of the activities to meet the West. Another result of the reasons for this phenomenon is that At that time, trendy art not displayed in the domestic space and opportunities.

Another Chinese New Wave Art is dangerous: too early to be spoiled to the international arts community. This limitation is "too easy" caused. Any one in the history of the stage, trendy artists did not like today's Chinese New Wave artists so quickly by the international attention and commercial success. Many artists have been promising they have not walked in the place should be aborted when it is being carried killing. Many Chinese artists are not aware of their popularity in the West, the most important thing is that China's rise in the world this background, they are backed by powerful state ideology and jump up the red,
Not due to their own works of art in itself contribute to the capacity of the absence of such reflection, but the blind self-confidence, arrogance, is the most dangerous. China has just trendy art curators from the West will escape out into the market soon in a scam. Promising artists, and art is to know how to find the right system and the market position of people.

Liberal Arts and the experiment system of the state of the relationship between art is yet to be found between the balances in an appropriate relationship, and even antagonistic. The main reason for the formation of this relationship is: both have the form of measured, style and art schools as the primary treatment of the problem. The experimental avant-garde art circles in order to appear, but with the system as a result of the artist is art in the same environment growing up, in fact, in the art with the system more or less the same way. This experimental art in addition to exclusive and non-tolerance attitude. The real test is open-minded spirit and have no preconceived notion of a limited genre,Are not limited to any "avant garde" of. The depth and effectiveness of the experiment depends on a new artistic language and contemporary relationship between the degree of life, rather than with other schools of how much distance.

As for the art of the state of the system basically is an improved attitude towards the existing institutional system. A long period of time, energy is consumed in "Modeling the degree of change" is not even the "thick strokes of the division" as the definition of modern is not modern, can not transform into the level of methodology. In the form of the degree of "quantity" on the matter, will never be the differences and find common ground.

2009-6-27