| Throughout the history of art development,the language of painting is inseparable from the basic element of "material".At the beginning of the birth of art,the medium of natural materials has become an important carrier of primitive civilization’s emotional expression and artistic creation.Since then,in the long history of the development of traditional Western art,materials have always been responsible for the material basis of modeling language,which has been hidden behind the scenes for a long time.With the return of primitive art,the influence of modernist art has inspired artists to look at and express art with new eyes.The material medium that has served the work for a long time broke free from the shackles of the "servant" identity,and became the protagonist on the stage with its own unique aesthetics and connotation.Multiple and comprehensive materials are used in artistic creation,breaking through people’s fixed aesthetic understanding of art.The change of material medium not only means the change and openness of concept,but also means that the internal structure of painting language and the aesthetic structure of traditional art subjectivity have undergone fundamental changes.From natural materials that are inseparable from the beginning of art to the emergence of the subjectivity of material media after modern art,and towards the era of meaningful multiple comprehensive materials,material media,like other things,present a law of development,from primitive and natural to diverse In the era of artificial synthesis,we will move towards more possibilities with creative changes.The development direction of the material medium in modern painting has the retrospect of the original nature,and also the creative change that keeps pace with the times.This article attempts to start from practice,follow the historical development line of Western painting,combine the analysis and interpretation of the representative artists of various schools of modern art and their research results in combination with the return background of primitive art in the 20 th century,and sort out the echoes of material media across time and space in the period of primitive art and modern and contemporary art Looking back at history,based on the present,analyze the presentation of creative changes in material media from the perspective of material and concept,use material media as a starting point to expand the new vision of artistic creative thinking,and put forward new perspectives for artists’ creative research and practice. |