Easel Painting In The Image Age

In the early nineteenth century,with the birth of photography technology,tremendous impact on easel painting,but also changed the aesthetic trend of the public,the rise of Photography changed the historical status of painting,while the era of image began to open.Nowadays,with the rapid development of the information age,image,as a form carrier of human visual information,is becoming more and more common in daily life.People become accustomed to understanding objects through images and understanding nature.Image culture has become an indispensable part of our daily life.Painting on shelves is embarrassed and helpless in the surroundings of image culture,even once sung down.Painting was sentenced to death.However,since its birth,easel painting bears the spiritual sustenance of human beings.It is the expression of emotions that is the transmission of visual experience and cultural context,so as to make it an irreplaceable tool for artists and audiences to evoke personal memory and present collective experience in the era of mechanical reproduction.This article will try to combine the famous British artist PETER DOIG painting examples to explore the reasons why easel painting still occupies a place in the image age under the fierce impact of other media arts,and the more possibilities of easel painting in the image age.