Metaphor Of Reproduction

The "painting within a painting" is a very clever and unique conceptual method in the history of Western painting.Since its birth in the Netherland during the Renaissance,there have been various forms of "painting within a painting" that have played an important role in the construction of the picture."The painting-in-picture" has gone through two peak periods of development,from the early Renaissance to the Baroque period and from Impressionism to the present,but it did not receive much attention until the "meta-art" movement that emerged in the 1960 s and the 1990 s.The rise of "meta-painting" theory,represented by Daniel Arras and Stoichita,who studied Western painting,and Wu Hong,who studied Chinese painting.It can also be traced back to the article "Painting within a Painting" published by André Chasdelle in the 1970 s and included in the second volume of "Legend,Form,Image".At present,domestic studies on "painting within painting" are more often analyzed from individual cases of painters,without a general grasp of the formation and development of "painting within a painting" and the rich expressions presented in different pictures in different periods.The author believes that "painting within a painting" appears so frequently in traditional Western oil painting and has such a rich expression that it should be studied from a variety of perspectives.By going back to the "original canon",the author explores the form and meaning of the unique concept of "painting within a painting".This paper compares the use of "painting within a painting" by painters of different art schools in different periods of time,and compares the formal role of "painting within a painting" in presenting the space of the picture and the expression of the connotation of the picture,as well as the transmission of the painter’s self-awareness.