Abstract
Viewed with a reference to the trend of modern perceptual psychology, philosophy and art theory, a specific interpretation paradigm of visual perception often echoes the established interpretation model of visual studies of its time. The direct perception theory represented by James J. Gibson is a noteworthy contemporary theory. This article discusses Gibson’s three core viewpoints, and advocates to rediscover and think about three issues in picture perception. First, what is the difference in the visual experience of two-dimensional picture versus that of three-dimensional space? What are their relationships? Second, how could we obtain a new visual schema, especially an initial visual schema? Third, how could we carry out visual communication through observing a picture? Discovering and rethinking these questions not only promote the research of contemporary pictorial representation studies, but also echo the phenomenological approach of visual studies.
Keywords
perceptual psychology, James J. Gibson, ecological theory of visual perception, twofoldness of picture perception
First Page
75
Last Page
84
Recommended Citation
Yin, Manting. 2022. "A Study of Pictorial Representation under the Impact of Direct Perception Theory." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 42, (2): pp.75-84. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol42/iss2/29
