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New Impressionist photography can absorb the essence of impressionist painting and other left leaning modern sects. Its theme can comes from rich daily life. Technically, the change of composition angle, light and shadow contrast and color contrast are mainly used to highlight the individual subjective impression of photographers (hazy beauty is easier to produce images). 0.618 proportion in photography works expresses the object in life, and the rest 0.382 proportion expresses the cognitive psychology, thoughts and psychological feelings of photographers. It’s best to comply with the golden ratio law. Different from the far right realism, new impressionism photography can not only meet the needs of photographers' emotional expression, but also different from the far left modernism. New impressionism photography can also serve the public aesthetics. Photographers can convey poetry with painting, feel the grass, flowers, birds and the world in the picture, sympathize with animals, plants and humans, convey the feelings of photographers to the audience who appreciate them, and spread the feelings and emotions of beauty, mainly including visual formal beauty, internal emotional beauty and social moral beauty.

Thought: it mainly comes from impressionist painting. It not only absorbs impressionist painting's emphasis on light, shadow and color contrast to highlight the feelings of photographers, but also absorbs the new ideas and technical language of other left leaning photography sects or painting sects. It is suggested that 0.382 proportion express the photographer's psychological feelings, and express real life without too left or too right (right: 100% reproduction of the subject, knowledge explosion in today's information society, simple dissemination of knowledge is basically unnecessary. Left: over expression of object emotion, too self, unable to resonate with the audience), spread the psychological feelings of the subject beauty of the subject and the photographer's, so that the aesthetic public can recognize a different world or produce psychological empathy.

    Each photography sect:

1. Realistic / theme: realistic social life.photography technology: clear

2. Documentary photography  /theme:  facing reality and life

3. Naturalistic  /theme: true rather than intentional design or arrangement. Returning to nature, it is mostly natural scenery and social life. Technology: nature does not carve. Photographer's expression: because naturalistic photography is satisfied with describing the "absolute" reality of the surface reality and details of reality, while ignoring the excavation of the essence of reality and the refinement of surface objects, in a word, paying no attention to the typicalization of artistic creation and the typicality of artistic images, it is essentially vulgarization of realism. Sometimes it will lead to a distortion of reality.

4. Paintism / Technology: the picture structure is rigorous and the layout is exquisite. It is processed by director, manipulation and darkroom.

5. Pictorial /Photography technology: imitate painting, communicate delicately, use light carefully, and  with beautiful tone: pursue the beauty of emotion. Express the photographer's emotion : artistic conception and form of the work.

6. Purist / Technology: oppose imitating painting, give full play to the characteristics of photography itself, and give full play to the beauty of light, color, line, shape, texture and quality of everything in the world, without the help of any other plastic arts media. Photography technology: such as multiple exposures, novel composition, unique modeling. Photographer expression: the transformation of poet's mood, the combination of tone and the change of composition are carefully depicted in a picture, which has a great sense of rhythm

7. Impressionist /Technology: impressionist painting light and shadow color contrast Impressionist photography advocates "soft tone" photography, which is blurred. The image in the work has no clear lines and outline boundaries, and does not emphasize three-dimensional sense and texture. Put forward the aesthetic standard of "soft tone photography is more beautiful than sharp photography", and pursue the feeling of light and shade and color in people's visual impression in art.

8.  New Realism (new materialism photography, also known as "dominant photography")/ Subject matter: excessive emphasis on local details. Technology: use close-up and other techniques to "separate" the subject from the whole, highlight a detail of the object, accurately and truthfully depict its surface structure, so as to achieve a dazzling visual effect.

9. Abstract/ theme: there is no specific content and plot, exploring the law of formal beauty (such as pure lines), with musical . Technology: in order to break through this constraint, they have created multiple exposures, half-way exposures, photographic montages and negative effects. Change the shape and spatial structure of the object, and try to use the "absolute abstract language" of form, tone and material to make the subject become a combination of lines, main points and shapes that cannot be recognized. Express the photographer's emotion: reflect the most essential conscious world. Express the most real and essential subconscious world of human beings

10. Dadaism /Technology: build works through darkroom, splicing and other skills. Advocating "abandoning painting and all aesthetic requirements", advocating nihility, making creation almost playful, so people call this art school "dada sect". The picture expresses the photographer's emotion: Sensibility.

11. Surrealism / theme: it is believed that the visualization of human subconsciousness, inspiration and fantasy is the vast world of art. Technical language: using scissors, paste and darkroom technology as their main modeling means, the scene is stacked, pieced together and reorganized on the work screen, and the specific details are combined with arbitrary exaggeration, deformation, omission and symbolism to create a reality and imagination of the surreal "artistic realm" between concrete and abstract expresses .The photographer's emotion: dreams

12. Subjectivist /technical language: you can use any technical means to create photos. Make the subject separate from the concept of time, and actively exchange the concept of time and spatial position. Express the photographer's emotions: the photographer's sensibility, the photographer's feelings, consciousness and emotions.  

13. Cameraman /photography is to record the meaning of an event and the precise organizational form that can accurately express the event in a moment .Express the photographer's emotion: see the world from a personal perspective.

二、 How photographers empathize -- Aesthetic Psychology

Freud said that artistic impulse comes from the expression of subconsciousness

Psychological research involves many fields, such as perception, cognition, emotion, personality, behavior, interpersonal relations, social relations and so on

1. Cognitive process: feeling (visual involve  formal beauty, rhythm, rhythm, poetic Gestalt Psychology)

Perceptual /memory thinking (rational thinking analysis) /imagination (associative /intuition /epiphany/ dream /subconsciousness)

2. Emotional process: generate emotions -- happiness, anger, sadness and fear

(abnormal psychology: anxiety, ridicule, fear, anger, delusion. Human spiritual activities are organic, coordinated and unified. From receiving external stimuli to responding, they are a series of interrelated and inseparable activities. Spiritual activities include feeling, perception, memory, thinking, emotion, attention, will, intelligence, personality, consciousness, etc., and changes in any aspect can be manifested as mental activity disorders, that is all aspects of mental activities are uncoordinated with each other or mental activities are uncoordinated with the environment, which can be manifested as mental abnormalities.

The most common mental activity disorders are anxiety, terror, hallucinations, delusions, excitement, depression, mental retardation, conduct disorders and inability to adapt to the social environment (loneliness).

3， Emotional process: produce emotion -- sense of reason (thirst for knowledge, curiosity) / sense of morality (love and hate)/ aesthetic feeling (desire satisfies).  People's emotional state of directly appreciating the beauty of the object in aesthetic activities and arouses pleasure. It is a response to the beauty of things, but it is not a mirror like negative, passive, intuitive and mechanical reflection of the beauty of things. In aesthetic psychological activities, the process of beauty recognition cannot be separated from the perceptual impression of specific images, and is always accompanied by emotions, emotional activities and associative activities, which are feelings, perceptions, emotions Imagine the organic unity of many psychological activities.

People feel the aesthetic object through their senses, and produce comprehensive perception based on the feeling of individual attributes. Due to the stimulation of the information of the aesthetic object and the mobilization of past life experience and knowledge accumulation, creative imagination activities of combining new images have been generated in people's minds, and with the emotional experience with the basis of previous rational knowledge, people have a sense of pleasure in physiology and psychology, This is the main psychological process of aesthetic feeling.

A grass, a flower, a bird are signal world in the poetic picture, sympathizing with the life and death of animals, plants and human beings. Poetic sentiment is the wish of human beings to look forward to a better life. There are mainly formal beauty (mainly photographed by realistic photography), internal emotional beauty (mainly photographed by new impressionism photography), and social moral beauty (mainly photographed by documentary photography).

How to achieve the new Impressionist effect:

In terms of the physical subject: the reflection of the subject in the water and the backlight of the subject or subject in the fog give the aesthetic public a feeling of 0.382 subjective association and imagination (the photographer conveys poetry through painting, and feels the subject of the picture, which can be a grass, a flower, a bird and a world, sympathizing with animals, plants and humans, passing the photographer's feelings to the appreciating audience, and spreading the feelings and emotions of beauty.)

In terms of the composition and creation of the photographer's object: the creative angle selection 、light and colors produce a subjective feeling of 0.382 proportion to the aesthetic public.

How photographers create creative compositions;

1. Photography angle selection (adjust the relationship between the subject and the environment, and adjust the balance between virtual and real)

   The main body accounts for a small part of the picture (too much of the main body will be too traditional realism, which can only mainly express and reproduce the main body). Let the subject exist in the environment, and the subject can be placed on the golden section of the  three-by-three grids, so as to reflect the photographer's environmental choice and composition technical creativity, and express the photographer's emotions.

The telephoto lens enlarges the aperture and virtualizes the background (hazy beauty is easier to produce imagination, association, stimulate the subconscious, and achieve the effect of blending feelings and scenes). The proportion of 0.618 highlights the subject, and the environment is 0.382 to express the emotion of the photographer.

2. Strong sunlight contrasts with backlight, 0.618 highlights the subject, and light 0.382 expresses the emotion of the photographer.

3 strong color contrast  , 0.618 highlights the subject, color 0.382 expresses the photographer’s emotion.

What are the factors that determine the artistic style of a photographer?

1. Life experience and education received,

2. Personal preferences,

3. Aesthetics and artistic cultivation,

4. Regional environment and customs,

5. Limitation of equipment owned,

6. Elders and schools of study,

7. Outlook on life and world outlook.

Convey poetry with painting, feel the grass, flowers, birds and the world of the picture, sympathize with animals, plants and humans through contact with imagination, convey the feelings of the photographer to the appreciating audience, and spread the feeling, emotion and emotion of beauty.:

1. Visual perception

2. Cognitive thought

3. Emotion

4. Feeling

5. Abnormal psychological feelings, loneliness, anxiety, irritability, distress

6. Dream subconsciousness

We believe that photography serves the public's aesthetics, adds beauty luster to the public's trivial and boring daily life, mainly including visual formal beauty, internal emotional beauty and social moral beauty and adds a little romantic and idealistic light to ordinary real life. Add a little light to the darkness. As a new impressionist photographers, other photographers can also be melancholy. The ratio of 0.382 in the work shows the photographer's emotion: it can be optimistic or pessimistic.