Images play a pivotal role in today’s society.In the "image era",the visual media role of traditional painting is gradually weakening,which has an indirect impact on artistic creation.Chen Liu’s watercolor painting style is seen as a fresh force in contemporary art.He uses the impact of images on painting to create art forms that break through tradition.Chen Liu’s watercolor exhibit a variety of structures through the transformation of images,which are closely related to images.He used a variety of image transformation methods in his creation,including reconstruction transformation of images,narrative transformation of images,and painting transformation of images,adding new language and expression methods to contemporary watercolor painting.Chen Liu’s watercolor paintings perfectly combine images with contemporary painting techniques,which is an inevitable need for the development of contemporary artists.His works not only exhibit rich expressive power,but also provide more opportunities for the development of contemporary watercolor painting,making it more diverse and personalized.Due to the development of digital technology,image resources have become more abundant and extensive.The research focus of this article is on the images in Chen’s watercolor paintings.Through the research and analysis of his watercolor paintings,we can better understand the importance of images in contemporary watercolor paintings.In Chen Liu’s watercolor paintings,he has always attached importance to the use of images,injecting new vitality into easel painting.By creating a new visual language through image misappropriation,translation,and transformation,and integrating the era concept behind it,a unique era concept is constructed.According to this core idea,this article will be divided into five parts to meet the research needs.The first chapter is an introduction,which elaborates the research background,current situation,and content of Chen’s watercolor paintings;The second chapter discusses the formation of the artistic style of Chen Shuishui’s color paintings from three aspects: era,region,and academic background;The third chapter is an in-depth study of the images in Chen’s watercolor paintings,including the types of image references,image characteristics,and image conversion methods;The fourth chapter is about the influence and inspiration of image research in Chen Liushui’s color painting creation.Finally,summarize the main idea of the article. |