Alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is effectively applied to solving the optimization problems arising from image processing,machine learning and other applied computation areas.In this paper,by using the approach of the variational inequality and some simple identities,we give a short and brief proof of the convergence properties of ADMM,which includes the strong contractility,O(1/t) ergotic,and strong pointwise iteration-complexity.The only mathematical background required of this paper is the basic concepts of optimality of the convex optimization.