From “Art for Art’s Sake” to “Art for Life”: The Interpretation of Chang Shuhong’s Oil Painting Characters Artistic

Mr. Chang Shuhong, known as the “The Patron Saint of Dunhuang”, has devoted half of his life to the research and conservation of Dunhuang art, but is also a famous oil painter in China. During the special period of Chinese art field in the twentieth century, Mr. Chang Shuhong, as a pioneer in exploring the national style of oil painting, sought to integrate the language of oil painting with the national spirit through artistic practice. This paper takes Chang Shuhong's characters oil painting as the object of interpretation, focusing on its oil painting nationalization of artistic thought and style, his early years during his stay in France has been a remarkable achievement, with rigorous and fine brushstrokes to express the beauty of the human body. After returning to China in the transformation of the Dunhuang art, will be the art of perception and respect set in the oil painting brush, portraying a number of national characteristics of the character, the masterpieces of figure oil painting have a special significance of the wrapped with the memory of the history and the national spirit.