To explore the relationship between art and media, this study focuses on the
influence of the photography and the cinema on the modernist painting. These new
media, appeared with the development of the science and the technology, began to
make a close relationship with the everyday life of the people at the close of the
19th century. At the same time they exercised great influences on the manner of
cognition of the people, especially of the modernist artists.
Several artists paid a attention to the fact that the photography had ‘the eye of
machine’ which lacked the subjective emotions and preconceptions in comparison to
the human eyes. Some artists interested in the light on which the photography
dependand some concentratedon the movements. In particular, the deep study of
the photographers on the movements detonated the birth of the cinema and this new
media strongly impressed the notion of ‘the simultaneity’ on the heart of the
avant-garde artists. This resulted in Cubist's expression of the space, the dynamism
of Futurist, the new concept of ‘photo-still’ and photomontage in the art of
Rodtchenko and in the thoughts of ‘nouveau r?alisme’of Fernand L?ger.