Deals with the Chinese contemporary art in today's development, the most creative young artists may be the focus of concern. But perhaps not as we imagine exciting.

The reason is that young artists on the one hand, creativity is still shrouded in the last generation of artists in the shadow of the image paradigm; On the other hand because of the simplistic concept of creativity, such as "Cartoon Generation", "image to" the creation of such traditional art in terms of realism, but in the performance of the object changes, but still unable to shake off the essence of "theory of reflection" embarrassing. Perhaps this can not simply be created through the generation to solve. In any case, the young artist's creations, there are also some new trend is noteworthy. For example, the representation of personal experience,
Growth of their own experience of the debris is described as a common tendency. Images of these works it is a relatively gloomy atmosphere and the most autistic, in a specific way to deal with the vulgar art, cynical art bright, colorful different visual effects. Structure on the screen, the layout of the lack of heroism, in turn for a fragmentation of the non-linked portfolio. These images are held by ordinary people is contrary to the "one-child superiority", the argument is no doubt that this generation is set million in favor of the conditions in a grown up.

However, in fact, these works give the feeling of the screen is precisely contrary to the above argument. This may be caused by a misunderstanding from the age, social environment and experience the difference between the actual growth. Difficult to understand the younger generation as the political life of their predecessors in the need for artists, the older generation of artists is also unable to "grow up alone," the fact that empathy. From a macro level, from "outside the extension" to "reflection" is also in line with the changes in modern living city constantly in the expansion of life and a single programmable constant current context of re-searching, self-liberation of the individual survival ideal.

"Aesthetic modernity" into the art critic is the vision of Chinese contemporary art over the past few years in one of the hot spots. Therefore, the "aesthetic modernity" and "abstract art" has become the theory of artistic creation and a new focus.

Today, on the aesthetic discussions of modern abstract art and an active contemporary art in China, one of the new trend. However, this point, perhaps with the development of Western art history there is a huge dislocation of the phenomenon, now in the College of Europe and the United States has been and commercialization of abstract art in the context of China into a very practical significance of contemporary art.

In the abstract art and contemporary art in China is almost at all levels, whether as a schema of the "Orient", or as a way of thinking of the "Orient", has the trend of emergence. Moreover, we can see the 50th Venice Biennale of China Pavilion "built environment", "Immigration: Chinese Aesthetics - Literature Exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai," "Oriental imagination: in 2006 the first exhibition," Contemporary Chinese Art, 2007 Documenta exhibition theme, "Oriental" are directly related to this. Especially in the last two years, the "Orient" in the practice and theory of multi-dimensional form as a rapid trend. On the one hand, The emergence of this trend is the development of Chinese contemporary art since the strength of the decision; On the other hand, is a result of China's contemporary artists in the international exchange as a result of collisions between different cultures and more the result of recognition of local culture.

For the purposes of artists and critics to take the perspective of the following two types of major. The first category is the West to study or work experience, they more easily in comparison with Western culture in the identity of the "Oriental" culture, for them, it is their culture of self-identity, but also the easiest to grasp the art of strategy ; The second type is the mainstream artists and critics, for them, "Oriental" is a new century and China's rise is directly related to the cultural policies of the cores.

In any case, the creation of contemporary art are based on the specific regional culture based on whether the adoption of the "Orient" line of thinking to create better use of the work does not lie in how the "Orient" of the symbols, but rather the "Orient" methodology of the deep-seated ways of thinking, and contemporary and visualization.

2009-07-16