The Use Of "Poor Images" In Painting In The Internet Age

Artist Hito Steyerl proposed the concept of "poor image" to refer to the kind of image that is constantly copied and edited in the process of dissemination,exchanging quality for the speed and breadth of circulation.They do not conform to traditional aesthetic concepts and are the product of postmodernist aesthetics.With the popularization of digital devices and the development of the Internet and technology of information,people’s access to images is more diverse,more convenient,and the spend of getting images is also lower.You can hold your phone at any time to shoot and disseminate images,and in such an environment,a large number of " poor image " are generated.In the new technical environment,artists use popular images and symbols created by modern media to obtain images in the picture,and some people use the intersection of art and photography and electronic screens to obtain images in the picture,they obtain image materials from the media and images and apply them reasonably to their own creations and integrate their own emotions,so that painting has more possibilities.The author tries to use the concept of " poor image " as a starting point to learn the artist’s method of destroying and reconstructing images,and apply it to his own creation.