The Characteristics of Perception and Intention in the History of Western Color Evolution

Abstract

The body understands the world through the comprehensive sensation and expresses it with meaning. Much of human activity is pre-reflective, and the core of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetic viewpoint is that the beauty is the manifestation of the finest perceptions. His philosophical proposition is the primacy of the representation. The representation are matters that exist in reality and can be perceived by people. However, the truth represented in painting is not merely a faithful reproduction of the matter itself, but also involves highly abstracted, condensed forms, and extraordinary colors to express the true forms of existence. From the development trajectory of the perceptual intentionality of art history, color starts from representational associations and gradually enters the mode of "psychological interiority," particularly in the present stage, it demonstrates the representation of "truth" in the real world. When color combines the subject's intentionality with perceptual intuition depth, it not only implies fundamental changes in painting techniques but also signifies deeper philosophical inquiries and artistic considerations about the art form of painting.