What the preference of National Art Award for?
For finding success tips for National honor of fine art, AwardPuzzle investigates 2272 oil paintings awarded by the Chinese National Exhibition of Fine Art through 1984 to 2012.
We present our findings through the patterns of relationship between parameters as geographic, time, color, size and artist, and share the possible tips and tricks as if it is.
The interactive AwardPuzzle allows you to explore the whole set of image, and increase your chance of winning.
Background ／创作背景
Why we have to puzzle National Exhibition of Fine Art?
For lost artists:
Should you paint bigger Size, female or Minority？
As an important cultural event supported and sponsored by the government, National Exhibition of Fine Arts has a relatively stable and standard mode, which is consisted with the expectation of the government in the aesthetic needs. On the other hand, winners harvest more than reputation, as you see the big figures of Chinese art institutions were multiple awarded by this quinquennial event.
In the 2014, only 21 pieces were nominated from above ten thousands entries. We'd rather digging deep into whole set of awarded images to help artists puzzle the tips and trick.
Dataset / 数据来源
Art history, even contemporary art is a No Man's Land of digital era.
Search-engine brings Chaos
Searching engine helpful for information verifying .
Early publications
Old books provides clear list
Anual Prints with color tendency
Finds
Significant facts from AwardPuzzle
Winning Color
最容易获奖的色调
Obviously, bright yellow and red is dominating.
Objects of Painting
获奖作品相似的艺术家
Artists repeating themselves for multiple awards
Awarded works grow in size
获奖作品的画幅逐年增大
Tendency was abandoned in 2014
Age distribution of Awarded Artists
艺术家的年龄分布
Awards favorings older artists
