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What are the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western floral arrangements, and how should we distinguish them?

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The similarities between Eastern and Western floral arrangement.

Regarding the similarities between Eastern and Western floral art, Mr. Wang Lianying, the representative inheritor of China's intangible cultural heritage "traditional flower arrangement", said that first of all, they are all created using plant materials such as fresh cut flowers as materials, and the works all play a role in decorating and cultivating sentiment. Whether it is Eastern or Western floral arrangement, it makes our life full of fun and beauty.

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The difference between Eastern and Western floral arrangement.

First of all, Oriental floral art is mainly based on plant-based materials, while Western floral creation also pays great attention to non-plant-based materials.

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Floral designer.

Secondly, Oriental floral art focuses on the beauty of nature, while Western floral art pays more attention to decoration and technical beauty. Oriental natural beauty emphasizes plant materials as the core, expresses the "artistic conception" through the works, highlights the beauty of the plants themselves, "erases" the traces of artificiality to the greatest extent, and pursues the realm of "although made by man, it is like opening from heaven". Western floral art pays more attention to decoration and modeling beauty, and will create a high decorative art through the combination of peculiar forms, rich non-plant materials and colors.

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Oriental floral art pays more attention to the integration of humanistic and spiritual connotations in the creative process, while Western floral art pays more attention to the presentation of formal beauty and visual tension.

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Floral designer.

Is it through this time that we have made the similarities and differences between the two more clear in our hearts.

Traditional Western-style flower arrangement techniques include the following:

1. Geometric representation techniques.

2. Color expression techniques.

3. The expression technique of combining lines and colors.

4. Expression techniques of repetitive composition.

Characteristics of Western flower arrangement:

1. Flower arrangement works pay attention to the decorative effect and the pleasantness of the insertion process, not too much attention to the ideological connotation.

2. Pay attention to geometric pattern modeling, pursue the expressiveness of the group, and have similarities with Western-style architectural art.

3. The composition adopts balanced and symmetrical techniques, the expression is stable and regular, reflecting the beauty of the power, so that the flowers show a strong decorative effect.

4. Pursue rich, bright colors, and deliberately render a rich atmosphere.

5. Expression.

Pay attention to the coordination of flowers and flowers, and the coordination of flower arrangement works and environmental occasions. A variety of flowers are often used for the combination of color blocks.

The difference between Eastern and Western illustrations:

Western flower arrangement emphasizes a strong sense of beauty, giving people an unrestrained and warm impression. Most of them like to gather together with brightly colored flowers to give a visual stunt. Because it is a large number of flowers gathered, it does not pay attention to the shape and artistic conception, just to highlight the luxuriance of flowers and plants, so that the atmosphere is lively.

Western flower arrangement pays great attention to geometric composition, and likes to use S-shapes and circles.

Oriental flower arrangement pays more attention to the sense of line, the number of flower branches used is not much, the form pursues the perfection and change of lines and composition, more green branches and green leaves, focusing on the beauty of natural posture, understatement, elegant and vulgar, flower arrangement with light and elegant color, good at elegance, generally only use two or three colors, more concise.

Hello, the characteristics are as follows: Western floral art, with a large number of flower branches, strong colors and strong contrasts; The oriental floral art has few flower branches, focuses on the beauty of natural posture, and uses more light and light colors, and is known for its elegance. Western-style flower arrangement, also known as European flower arrangement, is characterized by paying attention to the shape of flowers, the pursuit of the artistic charm of the large surface and the group, the work is concise, generous, concise, the composition is mostly symmetrical, uniform appearance, the color is bright and strong, the flower material is varied, the amount is large, showing the enthusiasm and unrestrained, graceful and luxurious, dignified and generous style.

Originated from the Mediterranean coast, the vertical square flower arrangement of celery, as early as 2000 A.D. during the Nile culture. From ancient Greece to the late Roman period, the cultural cessation of the Middle Ages was experienced, and it was only in the 14th to 16th centuries that the foundation of modern Western-style flower arrangement was laid. Western-style ikebana is divided into two main genres:

Form and non-form flower arrangement, the form is (traditional flower arrangement), there is a grid and a bureau, based on the arrangement and lines of flowers; Non-form is (free flower arrangement) advocating nature, not talking about form, with modern design, emphasizing color, traditional style is suitable for special social occasions, freestyle is suitable for daily home furnishings. Hope it helps.

Due to the similarities in geographical location, national culture, customs and habits, European and American countries also show many common characteristics in religious beliefs, flower arrangement art and other ideological and cultural forms, forming a unified Western flower arrangement art system and style. Its features:

1.The amount of flowers is large, mostly herbaceous and bulbous flowers, and the flowers are plump and huge, giving people a sense of luxury.

2.The composition mostly uses symmetrical and balanced or regular geometric shapes, pursues the block surface and the overall effect, and is extremely decorative and pattern-rich.

3.The colors are thick and gorgeous, the atmosphere is warm, and there is a spirit of luxury and wealth.

The formation of the traditional Western style of flower arrangement can be traced back to ancient Egypt. As early as the 27th century B.C., the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids on a large area of golden desert, with the blue sky as the background, under the scorching sun, the pyramids sparkled, looking grand, magnificent, sublime, mysterious, showing the authority and solid rule of the pharaohs, this geometric architecture has a great influence on Western culture. Western philosophy has also influenced Western culture and art, and from the perspective of the development history of Western philosophy, it has always emphasized the cognitive role of reason in practice, so understanding and viewing everything is based on "rationality".

Aesthetics is no exception, and it is under this guiding ideology that the Pythagoreans put forward the famous principle of "** division", trying to find the factor of beauty from the relationship of quantity. This concept of "rationality" was stronger in the European Renaissance in the 14th and 16th centuries, advocating "humanism", believing that "man is the head of all things", "the universe should also be dominated by man", and man and nature are the real objects of art, so aesthetics is also obsessed with the study of human proportions, trying to find out the most beautiful lines and the most beautiful proportions, and wants to use a stylized and standardized model to determine the standard and scale of beauty, emphasizing neatness, balance and symmetry, and advocating geometric figures. This aesthetic trend has been stubbornly ruling the West for thousands of years, and has widely influenced the development of culture and art, so that the geometric aesthetics in Western culture and art have reached the pinnacle, whether it is architecture, sculpture or garden, etc., all use a set of abstract mathematical and geometric methods for composition design, with the contrast between horizontal and vertical lines, the balance of axis symmetry and the sense of steady volume, highlight the subject, show majesty, very convincing.

With the development of natural science, Western art has been influenced by scientific achievements such as anatomy, color, and perspective, forming a unique artistic style. Reflected in the art of flower arrangement, the formation of geometric shapes, pattern flower arrangement, emphasizing rationality and color, with abstract artistic techniques to a large number of colorful flowers piled up into a variety of graphics, the beauty of artificial mathematics, strong decoration, in the festival decoration to add a warm atmosphere.

Hello, it is a pleasure to serve you Western-style flower arrangement with the characteristic leaky branch color of Western art. Its shape is more neat, mostly geometric figures to construct the map, pay attention to symmetry and balance, strong colors, more materials, dense insertions. The flowers chosen have a certain ceremonial meaning.

The color of Western-style flower arrangement is usually bright and bright, and the pattern is regular. One of the characteristics of Western-style flower arrangement is that the amount of flowers used is large and the colors are abundant.