Regression And Transmutation

The western contemporary art includes many types of art. As a representational part of it,painting has the concrete orientation to some extent. This figurative painting belongs totraditional painting regression, but it is not a simple regression, which presents different forms.This paper mainly studies the figurative painting in contemporary art environment.The history of mankind is a historical process of continuous advance, there are manyfactors showing different features in each period. The painting art is no exception. In thewestern traditional painting art from the Renaissance to the realism, romanticism, realism,neoclassical in eighteenth and nineteenth century, each period has its aesthetic orientation.Nowadays, with the development of photography and information technology, the traditionalpainting art is forced to pursuit the nature of painting, which renewed vigor from the declineto the contemporary art. In the situation of the pluralistic development, the painting in the faceof “the end of art” has been the opposite side of traditional and modern art. Since the1970s,European and American painting gradually emerged with a different style of painting–“newpainting,” it overcomes the limitation of traditional painting and takes on a rich and colorfulappearance.This paper analyses the contemporary figurative painting from its background,philosophical basis and features. The first part mainly deals with the origin of westerntraditional painting in the contemporary revival, from the industrial era aesthetic trends,concept formation of “new painting,” new paintings in modern property. The second part,which elaborates the philosophical basis of the western contemporary painting regression,mainly deals with the influence of the modern philosophy on modern art, Heidegger’s“history” and “national of character,” postmodern philosophy and Jean Baudrillard’s“Consumer culture.” The third part expounds features of the western contemporary figurativepainting mainly from the painting techniques, painting idea and analysis of the content ofpainting. Finally the paper concludes that the so-called western representational paintingrefers to the return of the traditional western painting return, which is not to simply withdrawn.It has profound culture, art history background and the connotation of works. Showing their positive attitudes towards the modernist painting, the new-painting artists regard themodernist painting as one part of the traditional painting and derive rich nourishment fromit.This paper analysis characteristic of the western contemporary figurative painting, it alsodiscusses the influence of the creative work with many features.