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.

這是一本充滿新想法的書，它使您充分瞭解到當今國際繪畫的新動嚮，呈現最近大傢所關注的趨勢。此書包括１１４幅為世界知名評論傢和策展人所推薦的先鋒畫傢的作品，每位藝術傢的作品旁都附有文字介紹和藝術傢的生平簡介。《維他命Ｐ：繪畫新前景》闡釋瞭當今繪畫的富足觀、拆衷主義和物力論。它是一本批評性的資料書籍，也是為當代藝術的初學者準備的藝術圈中的資深的參考書。