Lijiang Painting School : Self Construction and Negotiating Identity of the Artist Group in Guangxi Province, China

Abstract

The purpose of this study is: 1. To study social cultural development of China national state and Guangxi Province. 2. To study artist group of "Lijiang painting school" in the process of social and cultural development of China national state and Guangxi Province. 3. To analysis self identity construction and negotiating identity of Lijiang Painting school. Lijiang painting school as the research text. Lijiang painting school is the artist group and cultural representative of Guangxi. Through the analysis of Lijiang painting school, we can understand the self identity construction and identity negotiation of artists in social network. Whistleblowers include critical, general, and incidental information. Objective sampling method was used for screening. The tools used include basic investigation, observation, interview, focus group discussion and literature retrieval. The results are as follows.

Lijiang painting school is an art group jointly established by Guangxi local government and Guangxi local artists. The Lijiang School of painting was formed in the social and cultural needs of Guangxi. The period when Lijiang painting school was founded was the period of cultural identity construction in various provinces of China. Therefore, the establishment of Lijiang painting school is closely related to the social and historical development of China and Guangxi. Lijiang painting school has been established as the cultural representative of Guangxi by the government in the development. Lijiang painting school is the direct channel to show Guangxi culture, and directly participates in and serves the local cultural and economic construction of Guangxi in the form of art. The development of Lijiang painting school can reflect the society, nationality, culture, politics and policies related to culture in Guangxi.

Lijiang painting school is a group of artists. Based on the diversity of the internal members of Lijiang painting school, it interweaves into a social network. The activities organized by Lijiang School of painting promote their contact and integration. Through the activities, they are artists from Guangxi and show their strength. The establishment of Lijiang painting school also means that it is one of the numerous groups of artists in China and a node in the social network of Chinese art circle. The representative of Guangxi artists, facing the whole country, demonstrates and negotiates the strength of Guangxi Art and culture. Lijiang School of painting carries out self identity construction and identity negotiation in social network.Lijiang painting school, as the carrier of artists' self-expression, has made self-identity clear in the process of self-construction, absorbed Guangxi's humanities, geography, folk customs and other elements, and used these elements to create self-identity, so that "self" becomes the representative of Guangxi and presents the cultural ecology of Guangxi and achieves the goal of self realization. Lijiang painting school outputs self-concept in the expanding and improving social network. It can show the public self-image of Guangxi while presenting self-identity, and improve social influence by using the output of culture. At the same time, the Lijiang painting school is also engaged in identity negotiation. The Lijiang painting school places identity in China's social network. By holding sketching, exhibitions, seminars and other activities, Lijiang painting school integrates the regional art works into the general ideas, and provides visitors with a similar perspective to look at Guangxi. In this way, they can get resonance with the viewers, get the behavior confirmation of "others", and make clear "who is who" in the process of identity negotiation.

To sum up, under the cultural policy intervention of Guangxi regional government, Guangxi's fine arts development has changed. Lijiang painting school has rapidly carried out self identity construction and identity negotiating in the social network of China and Guangxi. Lijiang painting school is the small place that studies it. Through Lijiang painting school, we can know the large issue of the whole Chinese art circle.

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