The Door - The Door Of The Visual Arts Cultural Studies,

As one of the earliest constructional form in history, door or gate had exceeded its pure architectural connotation and practicable form from the beginning; And it had become the testimony which human-being adapted the nature, the memoir of people抯 life, the visualization of their blessed mind and the carrier that full of the creation of art, religion and other artificial actions. Through the visualization, door expressed the concept, the belief and the idea of people in long periods. For this case, door not only is a constructional form, but also has immaterial factor, and became a compound of natural material and people抯 mind. As a visualization of mortal culture, door is the cultural-complex, which is made up of a series of cultural trait: door leaf, door-god, doorknob, doorframe, etc. Science, technology, political organization, economical system and the world valuation of people influence the cultural-complex. With these influences, door has appeared a lot of visualizations. The development and application of science and technology impacted the conformation, the material and the function of the door, especially the cognitive ability of human beings. But the world outlook, the belief in religion and the artistic concept affected the cultural and artistic connotation of the door. In architectural fields, the study of door has its?own essentials and connotation. But in the view of the visual art in culture, it has different meanings. The realization of visualizations that are mixed with human being抯 dream and function in psychology has beyond its function in safety and transit. The study of door is not only inspecting the diversification of the door, but also look for the deep reason of the diversification. The study also is a research 3 iii~,ii ?ABSTRACT of the history of visual art, which people realize their idea and the accumulation of visual experience. The study will afford us a frame of reference to build a new construction, and will attain a road to realize our new idea and concept.