"Image And Image" - Discussion On Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Creation In "Image Age"

The new era is the development of artificial intelligence,technology as well as the accelerated integration of globalization.The images created by machines fill with our whole life and are applied in TV,computer,mobile phone,camera,multimedia,design works,computer games,architectures,transportation and other fields.As Heidegger predicted,"the basic process of modern times is the conquest of images world".With the development of technology,people can see what they want to see at home,breaking through the space and time,which making it easy for people to get the images they want.With the birth of photography in 1838,the painting image's status as the communication way has been affected.The words as the dominant recording and communication function gradually lost its uniqueness and reliability.Now,the development of computer technology and the network software technology are also the main approach of image manufacturing and transmission.The development of art has been dominated by the Western countries since 19th century.Western contemporary art has been seeking unprecedented freshness and individualism.During the process of pursuing new and different feelings,western aesthetic appreciation of art has gradually deviated from the traditional aesthetic principles.Art began to develop in disguise and lost classical pursuit,becoming vulgar and distorted.Traditional painting has lost its previous dominant power in western art,which accounts for the pursuit of fresh ideas and the development science and technology.A large number of machines can create more realistic images,which makes traditional painting lose the representational reproduction function.The mass production,the use of electronic and mechanical images,the emergence of new media art,as well as the appearing of the‘the end of art' have indicated contemporary western art's alienation from traditional modeling art.With the introduction of western cultures into China through various ways,they had a great impact on Chinese art.Chinese young painters have a thirst for knowledge and art.They combine the advanced western art concepts to make Chinese oil painting thrive,generating numerous artistic schools.Throughout the present image era,domestic easel painting is still based on real life.The traditional oil painting creation firstly choose the creating subject,then determine the composition and color through a large number of sketches.In Chinese contemporary oil painting,there are some creations are not completely accord with the traditional creation steps.Someone uses science and technology for coloring to save time and step.The appearing of this kind of painting works makes the domestic artists think should contemporary Chinese oil painters completely follow artistic painting expression and personal feelings or completely to create according to the mechanization image creation.How to correctly view the relationship between the image and the image of oil painting is a problem that needs to be faced and considered in contemporary Chinese oil painting.This thesis analyzes the characteristics of the "image era"and its impact on the creation of Chinese contemporary oil paintings.Based on the previous research,this thesis has a further discusses on the reality and time of Chinese contemporary oil painting.Through classifying and thinking of the current situation of Chinese contemporary oil painting creation,the thesis aims to understand the art works needed by the times and how Chinese contemporary oil painting correctly view the influence of mechanical images on painting as well as the humanistic spirit and creative techniques that art works should have.