Eisenstein's montage theory was inspired by China's Chinese character art.
Einstein was a master in physics in the 2th century, and was honored as "the father of modern physics". His discoveries about mass-energy conversion and relativity occupy a very important position in the history of science. But what you may not know is that Einstein also made contributions in the fields of poetry and art, and his montage theory was inspired by China's art of Chinese characters.
Montage theory is a technique of combining different images and expressing information through ideas. In Einstein's montage theory, the observation angle of each image and the difference of time and space will produce the interaction between events.
Some people may think that this theory is only applicable to movies or photography, but in fact, it is also very effective in other art forms, for example, montage techniques can be used in painting, poetry creation and sculpture.
It is China's Chinese character art that points out the direction for Einstein's theoretical innovation. In China's Chinese character art, multiple characters are combined to express almost three-dimensional visual effect by perspective drawing and other techniques, so as to make readers associate and experience aesthetic feeling, which is the basic principle of montage theory.
The works of Chinese character artists themselves contain various levels and superficial connections and the relationship between things, and this artistic style is the innovative thinking that Einstein seeks.
It can be said that for Einstein, China's Chinese character art provided him with some very valuable search directions. In practice, he not only applied montage theory in his own physics research, but also applied this technology to poetry creation. His poems and works of art reflect the achievements of montage theory in cross-disciplinary application.
In a word, Einstein's montage theory accepted the inspiration of China's Chinese character art and promoted the communication and development between western art and culture and China art and culture. Einstein's contribution is not limited to the field of science, but also spans the field of art. His thoughts have been integrated into the long river of world cultural history and become a part of human literary thinking.