Talk To Image--The Unique Perspective Of Contemporary Painting

Now is the age of vision leading, when people feel and understand the world with visual experience and gain experiences in the way more visualizing and imaging than ever before. The development of image has changed the way people view the world, but also deeply changed people's spiritual life and thinking, and the image becomes an important element of modern life. Stepping into the era of image, we are living in the time when there are massive and even excessive images. Images are being propagated widely by media and in various sizes and shapes are surrounding us, who experience a varying life with images. With the wide impact of new media, painting also gains rich image resources and a large number of high-quality image materials. In a convenient and quick way to access and with media surrounding us, the image is making a growing impact on contemporary artists and on contemporary painting. Contemporary painting perfectly marries images. By means of pictures, videos and computer technologies, image resources are widely used as painting materials in creative works. Artists through the creation or recreation of the image, perfectly express the personal and the public feelings, create a novel vision to viewers and form a new air of visual culture. Paintings made with images show a brand new style of art in the information era. Artists make images into the metaphorical paintings with rich contents and viewers get feeling of the artist's inner world through symbolic images in paintings.The perspective of this article focuses on image as core. The article digs into images by reading art works, analyzes modern paintings with visual method of image, and study the importance of image in modern painting in unique perspectives of contemporary artists and ways of creative work.