The Study Of The Figure And Ground In The Painting

Figure & Ground is an important Gestalt Law in Gestalt Psychology, and it is a visual spontaneous system of which our graphics art should follow. In the painting the ground and figure is a kind of noumenal value under the effect of human spontaneous vision during human long artistic creation history. Artistic creation is a physical creative activity, and furthermore a spiritual creative activity. The development of painting style is the result of combined action of human realistic material condition and human spiritual development, which emerges in the formation of the basic relation of figure & ground. Painterly language is an important clew for us researching the existing formation difference between figure & ground, and the conception of painting is the foundation stone of this clew.In this theme we begin from the mental function of the limitation of ground, emphasizing the ground is the primary material support for the figure emerging, and introducing the figure & ground research from the domain of psychology into the domain of actual context of painting, expatiating the ground and frame for the noumenon formal value of painting. This value provides a persistent limit for painting and other artistic division as well as a start for the painter thinking the language of painting. The conception of figure has the relative value and meaning no matter in the visual psychological domain or in the embodying of painting language. The change of formal language of painting actually could be...