| With the rapid development of the information age, imageculture has become an integral part of our lives, in any corner of thecity are filled with images brought to us shocking manifestation andexpression of the image in such an environment has becomeincreasingly diversified. Since1839,Daguerre invented photography,discussions on art subservient to science, art and science is theopponent?"Did not stop. Use of photos or totally dependent onthephoto to the challenges facing artists. Easel painting in the faceof the "image flooding",convenient to grasp the image culture, butalso to bear the "side effects" they bring.Image culture easelpainting in an "awkward" situation, especially the emergenceofphotography to change the historical position of the easelpainting, gradually instead of painting the transmission andrecording functions, but also the Western Modernist paintingtoward the diversify the direction of development. Some people saythat photography means easel painting "Death", in my opinion,easel painting since their date of birth, never far from our spirituallife, whether it is the expression of emotion or visualimage and thetransfer of cultural significance, easel painting with other art mediafeatures can not be replaced. In other words, as long as the painting still capable ofcarrying anera mental outlook would have been vivid continue.Text of this paper is divided into five parts: The first partdiscusses the meaning of the image culture and easel painting, thesecond part discusses the emergence of19th century photographygradually instead of painting the transmission andrecordingfunctions,image culture, especially the photographypromote the development of modern Western painting to diversify;the third part of interpreting the image culture inspired andinfluenced by Chinese contemporary painting, and discusses theimpact of the problems of image culture super-realist paintings ofthe contemporary Chinese, and furtherdescribed the"’85NewWave","political Pop" phenomenon,"New Generation", the youngman on behalf of "the phenomenon of cold Jun, Shi Chong paintingand image culture appear to lead to some painter blindly followedthe famous and over-reliance onthe photo;the four-part analysis ofGerhard Richter image painting and easel painting,use of referenceimage painting, pointed out that the image painting played apositiverole in the prospects for the development of easel painting.Part V Discrimination painting death "theory. The three-part focusof this article, the main point. |