The Language Attributes Of "Point" In Western Painting

Kandinsky took the "point, line, plane" as building materials of a work of artitself in his book《Point,Line and Plane》, pure "point, line, plane " is the basicmodeling language of painting. Today’s digital network era has already fullyproved this point."Point" is the smallest unit of cells in painting, and the basicelement in Visual Communication Arts. Since ancient times, during theevolution of the visual art, How do we interpretation the “point” in the colorfulworld of art?!"Point"--the pure abstract form, can be as large as the earth or the boundlessuniverse, also can be small enough so that our normal vision we cannot awareof. If we form the perspective of visual image to identify the "point" in the arthistory of the footprint, the medieval mosaic is an early mark. Strictly speaking,mosaic should belong to the scope of application of materials, but it isgeometry stone as the basic elements of murals. Stones of the resplendentwith variegated coloration, to the point of the arrangement, through the stainedglass window mottled sunlight, painting unique religious halo, which take thesoul to God, while the big spot the resurrection of Jesus, always create lightshining."Point" is a beam of light, a warm, bright jewel......In seventeenth century, the Holland painter Rembrandt is the poet of the light,he let us re-examine the deep meaning of light point, while Vermeer put thespot drift, free and lively spot all instantaneous solidification in the picture asfreely flowing style of writing as comfortable. The little light point, like a "spot"in the respiratory. With the spectral analysis by Newton and the nineteenthcentury science re-discovery of the light, the birth of the Impressionists cameout. Seurat is heteromery in this trend, he is objectively piety and rigorous,complete arrange the whole picture by color points, to finish a sunny paintingby the eyesight from a viewer. While Seurat performance concrete picture bypoint color point, then, Holland Post-Impressionism painter Vincent Van Goghwas put personal emotions into the objective expression. His every stroke isemotional and modeling "point", those the hot yellow, blue in different form size,length in the way of "color""color line" has deeply lived in people’s memory.And Op Art (Optical Art) artist Vasarely change the "color point""plane point"into the light "point" is the vision of the game, point is modeling itself. In thecontemporary art, there are too many examples to enumerate modeling bypoint, both in plane and space, material and behavior, the "point" is used in theinfinite amplification.Art is the crystallization of the human’s mind, science, philosophy,mathematics, chemistry, human understanding of the world evolution in any era promotes the evolution of art. The surroundings, the subjective andobjective conditions, the application of new tools could influence the intuitivejudgment of each person, with contemporary art boundary gradually blurred,refresh the traditional art of continuous reflection, multidimensional concept,"point" has been extended to all dimensions in art so, Duchamp said:"my art ismy life".This article from the basic concept of "point" and the attribute of it, discussesthe historical evolution and application of “point" in Western painting, as well asthe active subject of art--the vast creative potential of human.