The Application Of Digital Images In Modern Artistic Products

As a noun, image has three descriptions: 1 portrait, 2 figure, the form visualized by optical device, digital device and so on. Summarized from these three descriptions, we could define simply that image is picture. In another word, from the day of image's generation, its definition and extension are always changing with the transition and development of times. Human beings were fond of images from the ancient time. In order to obtain the existence and development in the nature, human beings understand the ambient world during the process of the endurance. With the process of manufacture and utilization of working tools, human beings' pursuer for esthetics begun to generate and develop. Therefore, aesthetic feeling was brought about. In the stone age, our ancestors had recorded natural phenomenon and express their worship for mysterious objects by using of images. With the help of images, they could maintain the kin among them, pray for happy future of life, such as hunting for much prey and having a good harvest. This kind of totemic worship in primal culture is initial beginning of imaginary art.Along with the development of science, imaginary world has become mature step by step. After the invention of computer, human beings start to explore new digital images. As early as 1962, computer had already had its own basic graphic theories. However, not until late1970s, when microcomputer came into being, did computer become gradually a new tool for artists. Since 1980s, with gradually mature computer technology, popularity of person computer, and appearance of corresponding digital camera, digital video, digital scanner, printer and so on, as well as rapidly developing network technology, the image world has been undergoing unprecedented growth, if defined with media as criteria, images that are produced by display toll with 0&1 computer digital way, are generally called digital image. Today is the time for subversive and test. More and more artists realize that among different artistic languages and visual forms, there are no categories of elegance and snobbishness. The more important is not the formulizing artistic criteria, but life experience of art and reality as well as some correspondent and ordinate relationship between life experience of art and reality and living spirit, which is individualized and creative. The form language of art is for expressing and communicating and the outcome of artists' internal linked qualities. Now we see that no mater it is for traditional painting and sculpture or equipment of modern compound materials and various space expressing methods, or video, photograph and other artistic ways can enter the art museum. With various forms and dignity. The development of art is rooted in the no-stopping research of humans during the long art history.In 2004, Shanghai held "Biannual exhibition with the thesis of influencing existence" which aimed at researching in the graphic techniques of visual world and displaying the history of image and its influence on human beings' existence. It emphasizes on considering science development with humane cure, and building up culturing humane care during technical development. With Shanghai biannual exhibition as the viewpoint and a lot of first hand data as base, this thesis commence on explaining digital image's visual meanings, exploring and analyzing the application of digital images in modern artistic products. Moreover, try to prospect the future of image and modern art with the condition of digital.