External and Internal Modelling of Space in Pictorial Representation

Picture is a means of objects' representation and inter-subject communication, where various ways of spatial modelling interact.Unlike arbitrary signs, picture not only represents something different from itself, but shows the represented objects for viewer's perception.Therefore, the external modelling in form of a material bearer is connected always with internal modelling of depicted objects.Not only perceptual images, but also internal models of other psychical levels participate in creation and interpretation of the pictures.These are, on the one hand, images of the apperceptual and conceptual levels, where schemes of represented objects and their verbal interpretations are formed.On the other hand, the images of sensorial level participate also in the internal modelling.All these mental models interact differently by artists and viewers and influence organization of external pictorial models mediating their contacts.