In the series of works “Painting & Image”, we try to explore the essential differences between traditional oil painting and digital AI images, as well as the unique charm of the two in terms of creative logic, emotional expression and aesthetic value.
Oil painting is completed by artists through manual color mixing, brushstroke stacking and layered coverage of physical media. Each stroke carries the creator’s immediate judgment and emotional projection. The thickness of the paint, the trajectory of the brush and even the traces of the environment when painting together constitute the “fleshness” of oil painting – it is a direct witness of time and body. The viewer can not only read the image information from the picture, but also feel the presence of people in the creative process through tactile visual experience. Digital AI images are born from the reorganization and imitation of massive data by algorithms. It has no physical material basis, and its color and composition are all generated by code, presenting a “contactless aesthetics”. AI creation eliminates the physical presence in traditional art, but also expands the infinite possibilities of images – it can instantly integrate different styles, break the laws of physics, and even exceed the boundaries of human imagination. But behind this “perfection” lies the uncontrollability of the algorithm black box and the subtle gap between the creator’s intention and the machine’s output.
“Painting & Image” juxtaposes the two media, inviting the audience to think: When the breath of oil painting meets the precision of AI, when human hand-made traces collide with the computational aesthetics of the machine, does the origin of art lie in the spiritual projection of the creative process, or the pure presentation of the final visual result? In the digital age, these two completely different creative paradigms may be redefining the artistic boundaries of “real” and “virtual”.
在”画与图”这一系列作品中，我们试图探讨传统油画与数字AI图像之间的本质差异，以及两者在创作逻辑、情感表达与美学价值上的独特魅力。
油画是艺术家通过手工调色、笔触堆叠和物理媒介的层层覆盖完成的，每一笔都承载着创作者的即时判断与情感投射。颜料的厚度、画笔的轨迹甚至作画时的环境痕迹，共同构成了油画的”肉身性”——它是时间与身体的直接见证。观者不仅能从画面中读取图像信息，还能通过触觉般的视觉体验，感受到创作过程中人的存在。而数字AI图像则诞生于算法对海量数据的重组与模仿。它没有实体的物质基底，其色彩、构图皆由代码生成，呈现出一种”无接触的美学”。AI创作消解了传统艺术中的身体在场，却也因此拓展了图像的无限可能性——它能瞬间融合不同风格，打破物理规律，甚至超越人类想象的边界。但这种”完美”背后，隐藏着算法黑箱的不可控性，以及创作者意图与机器输出之间的微妙断层。
“画与图”将两种媒介并置，邀请观众思考：当油画的呼吸感遇上AI的精确性，当人类的手工痕迹碰撞机器的计算美学，艺术的本源究竟在于创作过程的精神投射，还是最终视觉结果的纯粹呈现？在数字时代，这两种截然不同的创作范式，或许正重新定义着”真实”与”虚拟”的艺术疆界。
