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Abstract. The world has already entered the age of image from the word age. Photography has a great influence on painting. Photographic painting is a new art style. As a new field of painting study, photographic painting has its significance in the cultural expression of modern art. Taking German artist Gerhard. Richter's work as an example, the randomness of its composition and the scalability of the image is analyzed. Based on the research of many famous artists at home and abroad, images are introduced. The aesthetic orientation is being accepted and adopted by more and more artists and the public. The emergence and development of photographic painting has an inherent connection with the development of art. Photographic painting is studied in the development of contemporary art, to find the exact theoretical basis of aesthetic theory.