Youth, Images, Psychological,

Now is a transitional period of value conversion, the development of the market economy of China has changed the public moral experience and artistic taste consciousness from inhibitions by centralization to individual development, and has started a tremendous intrinsic transformation. As members in such a period, internal differentiation and contradiction filled the hearts of 1970s. Those who can hold'personal struggle' , shoot for personal success and live a social routine, is the main way of adults in the age of industrialization and urbanization. The value in the period of economic ascending should be — 'carefulness' , 'patience' and'diligence' . Another group of people, which rejects nobleness, seeks unusuality, changes its way at any time and freely and leads an ultratastelife, is called 'the unusual' . The ones represent another concept of value— 'clear up carefulness' ,'drop patience' , that' s the value modality after its change from industrial society to the society of consumption.Started from the youth cruelty paintings appeared in the young artists' works, their paintings for their youth retrospect and the artistic state of the younger generation, the dissertation listed their cross-sectioned artistic phenomenon. Compared with the pictures with noble themes of 1950s, and those with political, ideal heroism themes of 1980s; and the realistic paintings after 1989, analyze from colour, contents, material, structure and other aspects. Than concluded why the young' s art is different from others. The age of high consumption brought by pubic Medias has made a brand-new ideology, with the urban evolvement, the artistic modality transforms. Modern culture approaches waste and farrago, greatly influenced by anti-sense and anti-intelligence, the dominant mood considers oneself to be the touchstone of cultural evaluation, and regards one' s own feeling as an artistic yardstick of experience.From the mental analyse of those artists, some tendencies are now visible: narcissism, self-tyrannize and cool-pretending, however, those tendencies are tightly relevant to the age of high consumption in which we live.