Inquiry Into The Pattern Of Seeing In Western Realistic Painting

Though the angle of the relations between painter, world, painting and viewer, the assay deals with one of the foundamental problems in western realistic painting--pattern of seeing. According to the different relations between the four factors, pattern of seeing is classified into four categories, which is supported by the assay's analysis of the art works by representative painters. Form the viewpoints of art ideas, psychology and the development of science and technology, which ralate to the problem, the assay analyzes the historical environments, reasons that affect the formation of these categories, and also their foundations in art conceptions and influence in art history. Finally it discusses the possible revelation that the problem may give us.