Picture theory per se is not new to us, as the human consciousness of the image is as old as the history of civilization. Visual consciousness is essentially humankind’s act of viewing things with human consciousness. However, in ancient academic circles, where subject classification was not sufficiently sound, “image” was not studied as a separate science. Instead, it was usually studied as some form of art, such as painting, sculpture, or architecture, as a part of a religious ritual, as a totem, or as a utensil. Such pre-sixteenth century research could be referred to in general as “pre-iconography”, in which image studies were focused on explaining the motifs and contents of images primarily according to people’s life experience. The motif of the image comprises the events and objects formed by the elements of painting, such as line, color and volume.