A Cross-Media Modal Study of Painting Images in the Context of New Media- From Visual Observation to Multi-Sensory Immersion

Abstract

In the current era, where digital media deeply intervene in artistic creation, the spread and experience of painting images are being redefined. Research on painting images has often focused on form and style, while neglecting the role of the medium in perception and meaning generation. This study, based on the perspective of media modality, re-examines painting images, transcending traditional frameworks of art history or iconography. This research not only places painting images within the overall framework of media modalities, systematically analyzing their material, sensory, and spatial properties, but also introduces visual perception theory to explore the perceptual mechanisms and psychological guidance effects of painting images across different media forms. Through the dual perspectives of media modality and visual perception, this study focuses on the visual language of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings, selecting the film Loving Vincent, the virtual reality work The Night Café VR, and the immersive exhibition:Van Gogh:The Immersive Experience as research subjects. It explores the mediation mechanism of painting images in cross-media modalities, with a particular focus on how the migration of media facilitates the re-generation of meaning in painting images and the reorganization of audience cognition, thereby revealing the diversified artistic language and new aesthetic interaction modes of painting images in the context of new media.