Introduction to the course of contemporary artistic expression of Chinese painting: This course is a general elective course designed to cultivate students' cognition of contemporary Chinese painting and experience the comprehensive painting creation of multi painting material and tools. Through the teacher's demonstration, the students can understand the broad and profound traditional Chinese painting art and spread the humanistic feelings of traditional Chinese culture; through the aesthetic comparison between eastern and western modern paintings, students can understand the aesthetic essence that contemporary Chinese paintings are based on the combination of Chinese and the west, and understand the essence of contemporary art aesthetics, so as to improve their aesthetic ability and creative ability. Through the three topic assignments of sketch\ free creation\proposition creation, we can inspire and broaden students' creative thinking, combine painting training with problem analysis and understanding, as well as organically connect and interact imagination and artistic creation, guiding students to study the overall nature and local characteristics of things. Find the form of beauty and realize artistic innovation from the shape, material, color and other aspects of their own practice.