The brief analysis of the paintings of the Zhi Qing Period artists in Heilongjiang Province

Abstract

The Educated Youth Movement (Zhi Qing), an unprecedented social phenomenon in history that has existed for more than ten years, reached more than half of families in Chinese cities and completely changed the fate of an entire generation. There was a large group of Zhi Qing members in Heilongjiang Province. A lot of young people came there from Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other places. Thus, according to statistics, in the 1960s and 1970s, there were 1,936,900 Zhi Qing members in Heilongjiang. There were many who simply loved to do art, and many years later became a famous painter in the country, and thanks to them the picturesque history of Heilongjiang of the 1960s – 1970s became a bright page in world art. This period of history is controversial, and the possibilities for artistic creation were also limited, nevertheless, in the paintings of the Zhi Qing artists, a sincere creative passion was combined with the perception of historical processes and a personal worldview. Young artists of this period expressed their understanding of the difficulties of human life, praised industriousness that allows one to overcome difficulties, the pictures reflect the peculiar beauty of the cold edge and the realism of life situations. However, the most important thing that unites all the works of the artists of the Zhi Qing movement is love and hard work in persistent service to art. This unforgettable creative experience is of unconditional value for contemporary art, both from a historical and artistic point of view, as well as in the aspect of collecting work. Over the years, the author of the study returns to this period of Chinese art in order to study the main characteristics of the work of Zhi Qing artists who worked in Heilongjiang province, to determine the historical situation that influenced their works, and to conduct a preliminary analysis, thanks to which it will be possible to see deeper and more fully this unique phenomenon in the history of modern art.