Traditional Chinese Painting And Vision

In this paper the general knowledge of human visual physiology and psychology is described, along with the research and the discussion of the unique representation in traditional Chinese painting from this angle.The Vision system basic composition unit is the central/circumference organ is the physiology foundation of traditional Chinese painting’s lines description, which determines the vision response the brightness and the edge of color selectively. The stereoscopic vision also strengthen this response and carries on the emphatically description to the response as well. Visual attention will focus on the object while ignoring the background and the environment. The’blank spot’in traditional Chinese painting represents this visual image. ’Observation’provides the information for visual perception about’What’and’Where’. Therefore, the vision possesses the’Constancy’, such as the representation of’Resemblance in non semblance’in traditional Chinese painting, represents the’constancy image’in the visual memory of the object. Vision system is divided into two branch systems of’What" and’Where’, processes the two type of information separately, such as shape, color and space, movement. The unique spatial representation in the traditional Chinese painting originates from the constant shape in the space. Eye movements reflect the consciousness. The result of the picture is restrained by the eye movement mechanism, adequately expressed in the structure of traditional Chinese painting. The peripheral vision is unclear, this feature also plays an important role in the drawing, founds the visual foundation in Chinese painting like’silent’and’dynamic’, exampled in the murals in Yongle Palace studied in this article.The ancient Chinese painting, in many aspects, comply with the principles of the visual physiology, which results the representation of the visual terminal. It emphasizes and represents the vision selectively, The unique style of traditional Chinese painting is firmly established on the principles of the visual action formulated by the human vision system.