The Manifestation of the Relationship of “Words, Images and Ideas” in Landscape Paintings

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10.2991/assehr.k.220110.101How to use a DOI?

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language; image and meaning; landscape painting; painting language; pen and ink

Abstract

“Words, images, and ideas” are the three stages of the symbolic language representation mechanism of human beings, corresponding to language, image and expressing ideas respectively. Wang Bi (226-249) put forward his own views on the relationship between the three in the article “Liu Lie Ming Xiang in Zhouyi”. As a Chinese painting divided by subject matter, its artistic language also has the representational mechanism of language (symbol)-image-expressiveness. Landscape painting uses pen and ink as its language, mountains and rivers as images, and expressing spirit as its meaning. The relationship between “image and meaning” is different from other languages due to the artistic form of landscape painting. In the process of the development of the artistic language of landscape painting, there are two relative states of sequential “emotions, words and forms” and alienated “speaks before meanings”. Painters in the past dynasties often used “intentions against ambition” and “describing and forgetting words” as examples. Ways and means to break away from and transcend the state of alienation.

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AU  - Jiang Runyu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/28
TI  - The Manifestation of the Relationship of “Words, Images and Ideas” in Landscape Paintings
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 528
EP  - 532
SN  - 2352-5398
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