The Spatial Depiction Of Western Paintings And It's History Of Development

How to sculpture three dimensional objects on two dimensions is an urgent problem which many artists have been attempting to resolve for hundreds and thousands of years. With the development of man's abilities to know nature and depicture nature, people have become more and more experienced in the techniques of space expression.This paper examines the major revolutions which occur in the techniques of space expression in painting and the modes of thought in the history of art creations. And it draws a developing line of the space's techniques of painting including perspective ,shadow and color. Based on this line, the author summarizes the ideas and techniques of expression in fine arts from the primitive society, the Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Greece, the Ancient Rome, Renaissance, the European paintings of the 17th and 18 century, to the currents of modernism of 20th century. This is the field that few have ever touched before. So the paper gives a new perspective on the pluralistic concept of development in space depiction of western modernism paintings. Simultaneously the author compares the typical paintings of different historical period and analyzes their representative space depiction techniques.In the end, the author has a further discussion on the practical significance of space depiction in the light of painting creation and teaching.