With a concept similar to "cream", this text is an image-heavy book offering an overview of the state of painting today, and documents the most recent concerns and ideas among contemporary painters. In the wake of media such as installation, video, performance and digital art, the traditional medium of painting has enjoyed a renaissance among a recent generation of artists. Alongside the ever-growing reputation of significant living painters such as Gerhard Richter, Agnes Martin and Peter Halley, many younger artists have chosen painting over any other medium, and are exploring new means to broaden the traditional field of "oil on canvas". It is this younger generation (who emerged in the 1990s) that "Vitamin P" aims to represent in an A-Z survey of 114 of its leading, international practitioners, with each artist illustrated by numerous examples of his or her works, accompanied by a short explanatory text. Often moving beyond the most traditional image associated with this medium, This survey hopes to illustrate the richness, eclecticism, dynamism and contemporaneity of the practice of painting today.

这是一本充满新想法的书，它使您充分了解到当今国际绘画的新动向，呈现最近大家所关注的趋势。此书包括１１４幅为世界知名评论家和策展人所推荐的先锋画家的作品，每位艺术家的作品旁都附有文字介绍和艺术家的生平简介。《维他命Ｐ：绘画新前景》阐释了当今绘画的富足观、拆衷主义和物力论。它是一本批评性的资料书籍，也是为当代艺术的初学者准备的艺术圈中的资深的参考书。