Human of the painter: Collectors' Edition. Down

Author: Xiao Yu
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Human art is probably mainly about expressing human life and emotions. Since the goal is to portray humans, studying what humans truly are, and researching and grasping human form, should be a natural and necessary thing. Second, within the scope of human knowledge on Earth, we believe "humans" are the highest achievement of matter's development. Therefore, from a form perspective, they should also be the most beautiful and perfect. As a result, human artists, naturally, should praise, celebrate, appreciate, and depict them, which should also be a natural and necessary thing.
Painting Model Collection 2: A healthy, normal human society treats the beauty and art of the human body in this way. However, it's different in China. Many people say that promoting the beauty of the human body and valuing human body art doesn't align with our national conditions. Indeed, that statement isn't entirely wrong. But this proves that our "national conditions" are unnatural and unhealthy. Chairman Mao once pointed out this issue bluntly in a letter to six Central Political Committee members, saying, "Nude models (models) are necessary for painting and sculpture—without them, it's not possible. Opposing them in terms of ideological construction is inappropriate." It is precisely this unnatural and unhealthy "feudal ideology" that has led to the distortion and destruction of the healthy beauty and art of the human body. With this "national condition," should the Chinese people, who have overthrown the feudal system, still uphold and inherit it?