Painting With Light And Shadow

The contemporary painting is facing crisis: the revolution of contemporary art's self-subversion of and modernity of the new visual culture. How can painting be in the image era? What relationship exists between painting and lights & shadows?The thesis researches on the science of lights & shadows and the theory of "camera obscura" . It clarifies the influence from the science of lights & shadows to the western painting. It reviews the lights & shadows theory through the clues of scenography and chiaroscuro and definese that the lights & shadows are the most important problem in painting. The thesis tries to find the new possibilities of painting in the image era by researching on the representing of lights & shadows in the painting works, the simulation of lights & shadows and their different representing ways in western and eastern paintings.The thesis tries to reveal the clarity and obscuration of lights & shadows in painting works. It ponders the theory of dislocation, and tries to find the metaphysical meanings of lights & shadows.