The Possibility Of Easel Painting Existing In Contemporary Art Context

In the western extreme thinking guidance, modern art finally entered the conception art stage by unceasingly disguising the old as the new for a century. An artwork fundamentally said is artist's thought, but is not the visible material object, because the visible material object stems from one kind of thought. Therefore thought itself is recognized as the artwork. Conception art not only cancels traditional factors such as the figure,color,structure of a picture ,but also art itself. Then the phrases such as "goes out of easel", "the painting perishes" blow on the face for a while. The view of the painting withers away is the result of own dissimilation when modernism movement development to an extremeness. It should be pointed out that this is the painting formalism withers away but by no means painting itself.Since last century the artistic development and transformation has directly expedited the artistic form and the method multiplicity by its value idea multiplication in the hundred years. The new artistic style appeared such as the installment art, behavior art, conception art and media art etc. With the appearances of these emerging artistic forms, the painting traditional status is challenged unprecedentedly. This condition proposed many new historical topics for the artists. Therefore, if easel painting still wants to base on the contemporary time, it must transform, faced directly the reality. It also involves the mass culture domain through the transformation, explores the possibility which its contemporary time indicates and maintains its bright individuality. This article elaborates its possibility in the contemporary art context from several aspects: easel painting contemporary time transformation, handle trace and flatness characteristic.