| The relationship between literature and image, by which the human being knowand understand the world as carrier, has never been suspended since its birth.Nowadays, along with the turn of visual culture, the topic on literature and image isbecoming more and more noticeable. In fact, discussion of the relationship betweenliterature and image emerged as early as the ancient Greece, when literature and artwas named by poetry, and image meaned plastic art. As late as enlightenmengperiod,Winkelmann and Lessing became to take the proposition of the relationshipbetween poetry and painting serciously, and developed systematic theory, because ofwhich,they plays the roles as dominant position in this academic area.Therefore,if wewant to know anything about this area,or if we want to benefit from the proposition ofthe relationship between poetry and painting in order to research the relationshipbetween literature and image, we’d better say help to Winkelmann and Lessing.Before the systematic theory from Winkelmann and Lessing,there are contentionbetween words and paintings in ancient Greece, concept of anti-images in MedievalEurope,and the defense for paintings from Leonardo da Vinci. They all in the area ofcompetition between words and paintings.They are one of the formality onpoetry-painting, and the early explorations. Early in the German Enlightenment, theviews of the similarity of poetry-painting by Neoclassical and Zurich are prevalent.Butthey are different. Winkelmann discussed in a structured manner on the similarity ofpoetry and paintings, Formed a theory on the similarity of poetry-painting which havea thorough knowledge with his theory system.and it offered another form of theory onpoetry-painting relationship.And become the direct cause and the premise of Lessing’s.Lessing ’s poetry discusses the poetry-painting relationship from the differences andcommunication. He is a master on poetry-painting relationship.Through Lessing ’sinterpretation, poetry and painting are not compete with the struggle between status,not be confused with the homogeneity relations,but both the dialectical relationshipbetween the differences and communication.The relationship study of poetry-painting by Winckelmann and Lessing, is themost systematic and focused. Their study is endowed with a creative value in thehistory of the theoretical study of poetry and painting, and is the starting point of thesystematic studies of poetry-painting relationship. After Winckelmann and Lessing,poetry-painting relationship has become widely explored. The commonalities and differences study made by Winckelmann and Lessing, has a role in promoting thenational art in the period of German Enlightenment and the development of therelationship between poetry and painting proposition. Also their study have directedthe exploration of theoretical origins and inspiration of the current literature andimage. |
