Arts Studies and Criticism

Qiu Xiaofei, an artist, is one of the most popular artists among the post-70 generation of Chinese contemporary painting. You can see from his painting creation, the subject matter of painting works and the working way of creation all start from the artistic concept similar to image text. When artists explain their paintings, the capriciousness of painting creation and the lyricism presented in the works are inseparable from the artist's infatuation with music. In this paper, from the perspective of imagology, through the analysis of the artist Qiu Xiaofei's painting creation of music images in the exhibition, it can be seen that his image text is closely related to music when transformed into visual images, and the concept of "empathy" behind the transformation of the painting form of the artist is elaborated.