The Indifference Of Images

Since the appearance of images,the manifestations,functions and meanings of them presented in different periods have been varied.In the 19~thh century,the birth and popularization of photography posted a series of impact and influence on painting art,whereby some painters changed the traditional pattern of cognition and painting.They began to apply photographs as materials in painting.And since 20~thh century,human civilization has been ceaselessly upgrading with the continuous development and progress of science and technology.As a result,visual culture has gradually become the center of social and cultural development."The era of image”is on the horizon.Upon the arrival of the big data and information era,with the popularity of the media,countless complex and diverse numbers,information,and images flood in the whole society.Image not only has changed people’s way of aesthetic appreciation,but also generated huge impact and influence to the art of painting.Most artists are no longer looking at real objects and reality.Instead,they abandon the traditional methods of sketching,chose to highlight a variety of social image resources,and use them in personal creation.Artists express their own ideas and emotions by means of rhetorical devices such as image placement,tailoring,reproduction and collage.However,most of the figurative paintings using painting language created today expresses a sense of indifference and alienation.In the image painting created by the artist,although different types of social images are applied,what is reflected is not the current characteristics of the times and social appearance.What leads to that?How shall artists express their emotion in painting under the age of image?By studying the image attributes of image painting method used in the history of art and in the era of big data,this paper explores and discusses the emotional expression of artists in the creation of image transformation under the context of the times.It briefly combs the historical evolution of the visual presentation modes in the development of art history.With the relationship between image and painting as a clue,this paper is carries out a comparison study on the transformation of image selection and aesthetic mode since the painting is influenced by the visual image brought upon by the invention of photography.With case study of concrete examples,this paper researches the painting works under the era of information and big data,and explores the emotional expression and reflections on the society of artists in their individual paintings.Combined with the author’s own artistic practice,this study comes up that the sense of strangeness and alienation expressed in the works of figurative painting artists under the era of image is sourced from the real feeling of the artists under the influence of the whole information age and social environment,i.e.the emotional indifference and alienation brought upon by information exchange and image collision.