Thought Aroused By Pre-store Image

There always exists such a phenomenon that the students cannot find the "ideal" scene while they are painting from nature outside. The trouble with them subjectively is that they pay little attention to the accumulation of cultural knowledge and art theories, and objectively is that the lack of emphasis on that by the teachers. Therefore, in this essay, the author tries to make a detailed and specific analysis of the effect of cultural knowledge on nature painting to arouse the rethinking of the important of the accumulation of cultural knowledge.The author illustrates in this essay some standpoints by combining the knowledge of many subjects like psychology, aesthetics, art history at home nd abroad. First, our selection is based on an active perception, what dominates the perception is pre-store image proposed by Gongbulixi. The pre-store image is formed by interal national and individual cultural knowledge which dominates the choice of scene while painting from nature. Then, by making a comparison of the choice of scene between China and Western nations and between the painters Manette, Wyeth and DongShanKuiYi, the author analyzes in detail the influence of national and individual cultural knowledge on the choice of scene and arrives at a view-point that accumulation of cultural knowledge is proportional to the ability to choose scene and that the choice of a satisfactory scene should pay much attention to the accumulation of cultural knowledge.In the last chapter, considering today in the teaching of scene painting a common phenomenon existing among teachers and students that no serious regard is paid to the study of cultural theories, the author puts emphasis on the importance of the accumulation of cultural knowledge and puts forward some correspondingly suggestions egarding how to accumulate cultural knowledge effectively.