Shared bicycle (Chinese painting) Ma Xin
5G New Horizons (Chinese painting) Wang Liping
The Internet Age and Artificial Intelligence (Chinese painting) Huang Huasan
The Spring of the Internet - Rural E-commerce (Oil Painting) Guo Jianlian Chu Zhujiong
Scan Code Life (Chinese painting) Lu Pei
With the full penetration of digital technology into all fields of society, intelligent upgrading has triggered industrial changes, and the Internet has been deeply integrated into people's lives. Art workers carefully observe social changes, feel the pulse of the times, use the brush in their hands to depict the thousands of weather of digital China and intelligent society, and show the visual charm of painting as a portrayal of the times.
The Internet benefits the people with new themes
In the thematic art creation that shows the Internet changing life, smart travel, mobile payment and online consumption are common themes.
The integration of modern new technologies and traditional transportation industry has spawned new forms of transportation represented by online ride-hailing, shared bicycles, and network freight, which not only bring convenience to people's lives, but also become a hot spot for artists. For example, Ma Xin's Chinese painting "Shared Bicycle", in the close-up, a group of young men and women are riding shared bicycles to face the wind; in the middle scene, rows of shared bicycles are neatly parked; in the distant view, a fashionable and chic modern building stands quietly, reflecting the rhythm of the era of the metropolis Tugu Na. The entire work adopts a panoramic composition, showing the new rhythm of modern urban life.
The Internet has not only added vitality to the transportation market, but also significantly improved the convenience of people's daily consumption. Works such as Wang Kun's Chinese painting "Enjoy a New Life of Wisdom" and Lu Pei's Chinese painting "Scan Code Life" focus on the scenes of people scanning the QR code of shops with mobile phones to buy vegetables and fruits. The convenience of mobile payment is vividly reflected in the small incisions of the work.
The express delivery industry is one of the industries that have risen in the Internet era, and its rapid development has also attracted the attention of artists. Wang Wei's Chinese painting "Rhythm of the Times" and Liu Qing's sculpture "Express! express delivery! " is a representative of the vivid expression of this kind of subject matter. Faced with the same theme, the creators cut in from multiple perspectives. Wang Wei shows in his works the courier's proficiency and ease in the sorting process, while Liu Qing conveys the hard work of the courier every day with image shaping, and his works are more full of humanistic care and artistic warmth.
A new picture of the digital economy
In the era of intelligence, the digital economy is bursting with vitality, and everyone can enjoy a real "digital dividend".
A number of emerging industries relying on the Internet are becoming a new position for the vast number of young people to display their talents. Luo Xiaoshan's Chinese painting "Internet + Entrepreneurship Era" combines representative Internet entrepreneurial elements such as dream town, co-working space, and artificial intelligence in the form of triptych painting. From aerospace science and technology to infrastructure projects, from virtual reality to deep-sea exploration, the works break the conventional group portrait structure, and use rich pictures to show the dream-chasing platform built by new formats for entrepreneurial youth, which is full of the flavor of the times.
The wide application of high and new technologies in the cultural tourism industry has further improved the modern public cultural service system. The Chinese painting "The Sharing Era of Culture and Technology" cooperated by Sang Jianguo, Zhang Xueming and others showed people the digital cloud sharing platform and multimedia reading platform built by "Internet of Things + Artificial Intelligence" in the museum. If this work focuses on laying out the specific narratives of the use of Internet technology, then Huang Huasan's Chinese painting "Internet Age and Artificial Intelligence" deliberately avoids these narratives. In two-dimensional pictures, the painter expresses the sense of technology in digital and abstract language, as well as the new visual experience brought by digitalization.
Rural e-commerce has accelerated its upgrading and upgrading, becoming an important part of digital rural construction. In guo jianlian and Chu Zhujiong's oil painting "The Spring of the Internet - Rural E-commerce", a young woman who returned to her hometown to start a business is helping villagers open new sales channels on the Internet in front of the computer. Baskets of fresh fruit are converging at the virtual window of the e-commerce platform, and they will be transported to various places by logistics companies and courier brothers. This is the spring of the Internet, and it is also the April day when the "three rural areas" take off.
With the continuous development of rural e-commerce, "live streaming with goods" has become a new way of selling agricultural products. The oil painting "Live Broadcasting to Help Farmers - Coordinating and Promoting the Coordinated Development of Urban and Rural Areas" cooperated by Fu Jizhong and Zhang Xiaojun shows the lively scene of rural young people moving live broadcast rooms to orchards. And Li Dehua's sculpture "Live Broadcast with Goods into Miaozhai" allows Miaozhai's "old village chief" to become an anchor and generously and confidently recommend good things from his hometown to thousands of netizens on the other end of the mobile phone screen. In the smiles on the faces of the villagers, we see the energy of a small smart phone, which is spreading the happy and happy Kangzhuang Avenue into the fields through the network connecting thousands of households.
Rural e-commerce is developing, and the performance of art workers on the rural e-commerce industry is becoming more and more refined and accurate. Just as works such as "Live Broadcasting Helps Farmers - Coordinating the Coordinated Development of Urban and Rural Areas" and other works depict the details of live broadcasting to help alleviate poverty, reflecting that creators' understanding of this new format is becoming increasingly profound.
A new vision of the aesthetics of the times
The rapid development of the Internet has brought great changes to the national economy and people's lives, and has also brought opportunities for the prosperity of art creation. The attention to the new Internet format has greatly enriched the visual presentation of art creation, and a number of works expressing Internet themes have made art creation shine with new brilliance.
Starting from the new Internet format, looking for the new kinetic energy it has bred in social life has become an inexhaustible source of living water for art creation in the new era. Among them, keywords in the Internet fields such as 5G technology, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, human-computer interaction, and smart city have become the most cutting-edge and grounded performance objects of current art creation. For example, the upgrade from 4G to 5G can derive different creative content. 4G has opened the prelude to the era of mobile video, which has greatly facilitated people's lives, and art works have also expressed the content related to it. For example, Ma Shuai's Chinese painting "Souvenir of Finishing Work" shows the moment when several workers took a group photo with their mobile phones after finishing work. Wang Bi's sculpture "Good News" shows the joy of workers in different occupations using their smartphones to check the good news. In the 5G era, the themes that can be selected and expressed by artists are more abundant and diverse. In Zheng Hongmei's Chinese painting "5G Era", a short-haired girl strides forward with a skateboard painted with a 5G logo, representing a new generation of self-confidence growing up in the Internet environment. In Peng Xiujing's Chinese painting "Digital Age", young girls take selfies or live broadcasts at international fashion weeks, reflecting the high bandwidth and low latency of 5G networks. Wang Liping's Chinese painting "5G New Horizon" uses urban skyscrapers, digital screens and white storks as the main elements, the advertisements on the screen hint at the arrival of the 5G era, and the blue-green tones reflect the background of the era when technological progress and ecological protection are in harmony. Through many works, we can see that the social landscape that appears due to Internet technology and the thinking caused by it have been fully reflected in art creation.
As witnesses of the times, art workers use their own personal experience to depict the narrative theme of benefiting the people on the Internet and the well-off society in an all-round way, and compose a visual ode to the greatness of the people and the glory of labor. In the process of constantly going deep into life and observing the times, from the uncertainty of the initial topic selection angle to the deepening of the understanding of the theme; from the unfamiliarity of the artistic expression of the Internet virtual space to the familiarity with the balance between thematic and painterly, the artists themselves have also progressed with the development of the times in their creation, and have grown up due to repeated tempering.
At present, the rapid development of the Internet is still constantly refreshing and enriching people's life experience. The artistic exploration of different angles and forms carried out by art workers in the face of these new horizons in their creation is undoubtedly the best footnote to the aesthetic condensation of the spirit of the times.
(The author is the director of the editorial department of Fine Arts Magazine)
Author: Wu Duantao
Source: People's Daily