On The Crisis Of Easel Painting

This article mainly studies the crisis of easel painting in the 20th century.In the 1950s and 1960s,the rise of popular culture and the progress of science and technology promoted the development of artistic diversity.Under such a social background,people's aesthetic concepts have changed,resulting in changes in people's visual viewing mode.Therefore,the imitation and reproduction function of easel painting has lost its dominant position in the post-modern artistic context of inside.At the same time,the traditional painting art lost its"aura" in the context of modern mechanical reproduction.So,in such a context,in what form will art develop?Art is to continue to retain the form of easel painting?Or will art evolve into other forms?In this regard,this article will start from the historical context of the development of easel painting and the reasons behind the crisis,and discuss this in detail.First of all,this article mainly inspects the change of the position of easel painting in history,in order to explore the source of the crisis of easel painting.This part will be divided into two levels to demonstrate the status of easel painting.The first level is to analyze the rising trend of easel painting from appearance to peak.The second level is to analyze the decline trend of easel painting from the altar,in order to explore the causes and development of easel painting crisis.Secondly,painting has changed from the pursuit of space to the pursuit of plane artistic expression,further deepening the crisis of easel painting.In this part,according to Greenberg's The Crisis of Easel Painting and Greenberg's formalism theory,the reasons behind the crisis will be discussed and analyzed.Thirdly,the impact of mass culture and the compromise of avant-garde art to vulgar art in the postmodern context make the crisis of easel painting more progressive and deepened.Finally,contemporary installations,cross-media and live art have further deepened the crisis of easel painting.