Characteristics of image thinking, what is image thinking?

1. Imagery. Figurative thinking is the most basic characteristic of figurative thinking. The object reflected by figurative thinking is the image of things, the form of thinking.

It is an imagery, intuition, imagination and other figurative concepts, and the tools and means of its expression are graphics, images, schemas and figurative symbols that can be perceived by the senses. The figurative nature of image thinking makes it have the advantages of vividness, intuitiveness and integrity.

2. Non-logical. Unlike abstract (logical) thinking, where the processing of information is carried out step by step, end to end, and linearly, figurative thinking can call on many figurative materials and combine them together to form a new image at once, or jump from one image to another. Its processing process of information is not a series of processing, but parallel processing, which is surface or three-dimensional.

It enables the thinking subject to quickly grasp the problem as a whole. Figurative thinking is the thinking of probability or plausibility, and the result of thinking is subject to logical proof or practical testing.

3. Coarseness. The reflection of visual thinking on the problem is the reflection of the broad line, the grasp of the problem is the general grasp, and the analysis of the problem is qualitative or semi-quantitative. Therefore, figurative thinking is often used for qualitative analysis of problems. Abstract.

It can give precise quantitative relations, so in actual thinking activities, it is often necessary to skillfully combine abstract thinking and figurative thinking and use them together.

4. Imaginative nature. Imagination is the process by which the thinking subject uses an existing image to form a new image. Image thinking is not satisfied with the reproduction of the existing image, it is more committed to the pursuit of the processing of the existing image, and obtain the output of new image products.

Therefore, figurative thinking has the advantage of being creative. This also illustrates a truth; Creative people are usually highly imaginative.

Image thinking is a form of thinking that uses a certain image to perceive, grasp and recognize things, and achieves the understanding of the essential laws of things through specific and perceptual images. It is a major way of thinking adopted by artists in the whole process of creative activities, from discovering and embodying life, to conceiving art, forming artistic images, and materializing them into artistic images or artistic situations. Abstract thinking is a form of thinking that uses certain concepts to make judgments, reasoning, and arguments.

Figurative thinking and abstract thinking are opposites, different and interrelated.

1) Distinction. In the whole process of thinking, abstract thinking is always inseparable from concepts, and it is a thinking activity carried out by using abstract concepts. The process of image thinking is always inseparable from the concrete and perceptual image, which is the thinking activity carried out by using the concept of image, so the process of image thinking contains both rich feelings and deep understanding; It not only contains the embodiment of the image, but also contains the extraction of the essence.

This process of figuration and abstraction, perceptuality and rationality runs through the whole process of figurative thinking. The role of abstract thinking in art creation is mainly manifested in the fact that the subject of a work of art needs abstract thinking to refine, and the philosophical remarks of a work of art are inseparable from abstract thinking.

Abstract thinking should respect objective facts, follow rigorous logical reasoning, and do not allow emotion. The process of figurative thinking is always accompanied by strong emotional activity, and relies on imagination and association. The object of figurative thinking is a perceptual and concrete image, and its purpose is to create a living artistic image with real feelings.

Abstract thinking focuses on analysis, which can study a certain part of a thing in isolation, revealing the essence and laws of a certain aspect of a thing. Image thinking focuses more on synthesis and has the characteristics of wholeness, emphasizing grasping things as a whole, and grasping their inner essence and laws through the overall image of things.

The result of figurative thinking is a typical artistic image. The fruits of abstract thinking are concepts, judgments, and reasoning. The generalization role of abstract thinking focuses on generalization, and the result of generalization is the formation of theoretical categories.

The generalization role of image thinking focuses on collectivization, and through generalization, universality is obtained, and at the same time, it is concentrated to form a plump image of beauty, that is, aesthetic intention to stare at the image.

2) Contact. In artistic thinking, figurative thinking and abstract thinking can intersect, transform and infiltrate each other in the artist's creative process, complement each other in the thinking and answering activities, and constitute artistic thinking together with inspired thinking.

In artistic thinking, figurative thinking and abstract thinking can be transformed into each other, and the transformation is very frequent and fast, flexible and changeable. The characteristic of mutual transformation is to strictly follow the laws of artistic beauty.

Both kinds of thinking are a kind of way of thinking, both of which have the functions of analysis, synthesis, abstraction, and concreteness, as well as the role of generalization and centralization. They can all intersect and infiltrate each other in the artist's creative process, and complement each other in their thinking activities.