"Screen" And "Mirror.

The screen in Chinese traditional painting and the mirror in western traditional painting had been great concerned in complexity and colourful "picture" in painting,"screen" and "mirror" were often accompanied by "people" in the paintings. Painters frequently built the various meanings associated between "screen" and "people" or "mirror" and "people".In Chinese traditional painting,"screen" always make known the person’s identity, status, morals, mood and so on in a metaphorical way. In western traditional painting,"mirror" showed two opposite development path:with its reflection and the function of the imaging,"mirror" rendered multiple image of "people" in the paintings; For its complex and ambiguous symbolism, it beame moral judgment of "people" in the paintings. Therefore, on the one hand, the "scree" and the "mirror" with functions of reflection form completely difference:the former delivered the inner information of "people", the latter showed the external image of "people"; On the other hand, the "screen" and the "mirror" as the symbolic meaning reflected their similarities:such as personality forming, moral alert and so on. In a sense,"screen" was a "mirror","mirror" also could be like a "screen"This article was on the basis of the research of the image study. Researching into the relationship of screen and person in Chinese traditional painting, the mirror and person in traditional western painting, then attempt to compare them traversally and explain the deep origin.