The power of images -- on Song Dong's “Touching the father”

摘要

Song Dong is one of the most famous artists in contemporary China. This thesis focuses on song Dong's attention to family by means of his behavior of image art，he collaborated with his father on touching his father，which is an artistic way to confront，express，and solve his family relationship. And in those unknown years of time，bearing the gap between one generation and another generation，but also full of love and care between each other，in the end，the artist's intention with touch the father is not to reminisce and mourn the past，but to gain strength from it and to be born into the sun，is a positive use of art to deal with the ties between the daily family and care，art is important，but also do not forget to learn to feel life and the courage to love and be loved.