On Theatricality of Narrative Pictures

In the research framework of “literary image formation”, it is the important content to probe into the painters' handling of figures' spatial position. The figures' profile image formation and linear arrangement contribute to the narrative pictures' stage effect and theatricality. Like a director, the painter manipulates the narration and makes the audience as a beholder “see” the happening of the story. And he should take “confirmation of the rules” as the strategy of visual representation. He need not watch the story from a fixed point. And the audience can see the scene which he can not see the reality. Only in this way can he narrate the story as completely as possible. The theatrical enjoying object is the common element of both stage art and visual art, which meets the most fundamental aesthetic demand of human kind.