Exploring the Aesthetic Imagery of Yan Ping's "Mother and Child" Series Oil Paintings

Abstract

With the process of history to the reform and opening up, the improvement of living standards, frequent foreign exchanges and the strong humanistic ideas on cultural creation have relaxed the restrictions of female artists in terms of subject matter and content to a certain extent. A series of female oil painters incorporated their emotional attitude, observation of life and experience of life into their paintings. Under this background, a number of female painters emerged with a clearer sense of female subjectivity, a more stable self-style, and a richer and more diversified artistic style. Yan Ping is one of them, the mother and child series is an important theme in her creative process, this series of works from 1995 to 1996, has completed twenty-one works. This paper takes this series of oil paintings as the object of study, focusing on the special expression of the aesthetic imagery of the series, analysing the characteristics of its colour and line, and also discussing the differences in the performance of mother and child themes from the different perspectives of men and women.