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broken images. Since the birth of modern art, every part of art exposure of photosensitive media, and photography with new
has been broken down, including colors, light, paint, shapes, languages is in urgent need. Contemporary art critics such as
lines, spaces, painting surfaces and layouts. Modern art has John Berger and Susan Sontag believe that photography is not
always emphasized “break-up”, but it does not mean lack of rules. only an aesthetic form, but also a social field with democratic
It attempts to establish a new rule. In other words, break-up is spirits. Artists’ constant exploration of photography urges people
another form of reconstruction. By doing so, artists analyze, to abandon the old theoretical paradigm and respond to its
enlarge, and separate some aspects that people have easily challenges with fresh and diverse perspectives. Fu Wenjun’s Digital
overlooked in the past, and provide them with rich and complex Pictorial Photography not only displays the artist’s talents and
experience. professional qualities, but also represents his sense of cultural and
historical responsibility. With various visual possibilities, the viewer
In the context of cultural pluralism and photo popularization, and the artist are in a dynamic and benign interaction, enriching
photography has already developed beyond the process of light each other’s understanding of photography and the world.
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