The Prehistoric Art Of Chinese Life Motif

The problem of the origin of art belongs to the Art Occurrence, it is not only the object of the art history study, but also is the one of the most important problem of art theory study. On the origin of the art, there are different opinions from the academics. Currently the domestic academics has gradually started to reflect on the origin of art in the past, and denied the single art origin theory that is the"art originated in XX", and they think the reason of the origin of art is related to many facts; the research should be diversity and openness. In view of this, the research object of this article is about the life motif (reproduction and food themes), it is focused on using cultural anthropology theory to do the deeply analysis about the basic life motif content of prehistoric visual art in China, the main artistic presentation, the reason of frequently appearing and the relationship between each life subject, and try to do the discussion on the occurrence of art, then we can get the basic conclusion of the article. There are two determining factors closely related to the occurrence of art: first, internal factors (fundamentals)——the needs of original instinct (the biopoiesis of human and the basic life extension); Second, external factors (power factor)——under the guidelines of the original thinking, based on labor practice, human give full play to take various means and methods from the subjective initiative to meet all kinds of original demand. Among them, the shape process of the artistic image is guided by the original outlook of the preman (mainly the witchcraft), it is the process of self-selection and the symbol usage, the prehistoric art is the media for achieving the intention.