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Aesthetic Utopia, Revolution in Daily Life and Identity Construction of Peasant Paintings
YANG Dong-li
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2023.01.008
School of History and Culture, Shandong University, Jinan, China
Peasant painting is a kind of painting created by farmers as creative subject, bearing rich significance. According to the historical development of peasant painting in reality, the types of meaning it carried could be divided into three types in chronological order: political ideological significance, folk life significance, and creative fashion significance. These three types of meaning gave rise to three types of aesthetic utopia, namely political aesthetic utopia, folk aesthetic utopia and fashion aesthetic utopia. The three types of aesthetic utopia reflected three forms of negation and revolution of daily life. What the political aesthetic utopia resisted was the alienation force of material desire. What folk aesthetic utopia resisted was the desire for material and the binding of political ideology. The fashion aesthetic utopia opposed the relatively narrow localism. Through these three forms of resistance, the public also constructed three identities: the interpreter of their own aesthetic interpretation of political ideology, the interpreter of their own aesthetic interpretation of real life from perspective of local feelings, and the interpreter of their own aesthetic interpretation of real life from perspective of the relationship between themselves and the world.
peasant paintings, aesthetic utopia, daily life revolution, symbol, identity
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, January 2023, Vol. 13, No. 1, 47-60
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