Photograph And Painting-Grhard Richter's Influence On Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting

The world's most influential artist, who set a record for a living artist at auction, a pioneer of "Photo Painting" and a painter who leave critics scratching their heads for he has no-style, the man who find the new way for the development of painting when people debating"painting's death"in 20th century. Even now with aureoles and titles, he still keeps his distance from various trends of thought as a lone ranger.Since reform and opening up, China has got into a rapid development in economics, culture and personal consciousness in the decade at the turn of the century. But by the influences of the end of "85'New Wave", the introduction of conceptual art and the impact of photograph images, painting art has got into an embarrassing period for it fails to represent avantgarde art. However, A group of ambitious young artists encountered Gerhard Richter's paintings at different times and started their practices of "new painting" by utilizing photograph images. Now they gained alot of market acceptance and promoting the evolution of China contemporary art for they has become the most representative figures in Chinese contemporary painting by their most cutting-edge concept with the help and guidance from Gerhard Richter's "photo paintings".The research on the influence of Gerhard Richter from his creating context and process of "photographic painting" on China's contemporary oil painting launches an investigation on the influence of photographic painting"in"New Painting from China " and "China's photographic Painting" and compare the difference between them. Try to finds out the differences between Richter himself and those China contemporary painters who influenced by"Richter style"Based on the case study of Gerhard Richter and his influence on China's contemporary art, this research try to discuss the the diversified development on China's contemporary oil painting under globalization context and focus on the importance of sustainable development of "Richter style"in Chinese contemporary painting in terms of the evolution of ages.