Differences between Chinese and Western art 5, Differences between Chinese and Western art

One in the East and one in the West.

I think the West may pay more attention to modeling and scientific understanding of the world, while China may pay more attention to emotional expression and freehand mood

The difference between Chinese painting and oil painting. It's the difference between East and West. Soft in the East and hard in the West.

There are several main theories.

1；The different painting mediums of China and the West have led to differences in the direction of Chinese and Western paintings.

The ancestors of Chinese and Western painting are rock paintings, and in this sense, there is no difference in medium. In the era when the main function of painting was tombs, the difference between Chinese and Western paintings was not as great as imagined. The widening gap between Chinese and Western painting is mainly due to the separation of painting into a relatively independent art.

Based on this, some people have suggested that it was the painting medium of the time that led Chinese and Western painting to take different paths. At that time, the painting tools in the East were mainly brushes, while the painting tools in the West were brushes like small brushes. Brushes are longer than lines and renderings, while small brushes are longer than flat coats of color blocks and blending of colors.

There is some basis for this claim, but it does not explain some of the key issues. For example, in the pre-painting period (that is, when painting was not yet separated into independent art), Chinese and Western paintings were not the same—if the later murals can be explained by the above methods, then the original rock paintings of China and the West have already presented different appearances, which is difficult to explain with this kind of thinking.

2. Due to the different ways of thinking of the East and the West.

This argument is basically the mainstream view. According to this view, the Eastern way of thinking tends to be general, intuitive, and emotional; The Western way of thinking, on the other hand, tends to be inductive, analytical, and rational.

In art, it is manifested as follows: Oriental painting pursues the use of pictures to convey personal aesthetic tendencies, taste pursuits and realm interests; Western painting, on the other hand, tends to use pictures to analyze the objective world (note here: here we must make a strict distinction between "analyzing the objective world" and "depicting the objective world", simply put, the former includes the latter, and the latter is only a manifestation of one aspect of the former).

This view is relatively straightforward, but it is considered by some to be fundamentally unconvincing. Because those who hold this view are not trying to further explain why there is such a difference between Eastern and Western ways of thinking.

3. Others try to explain this problem by the difference between the natural environment. Generally speaking, the oriental natural environment is influenced by continental images, and the lines depicting the mountains and rivers of the mainland are emphasized. However, the western natural environment is mainly oceanic, and attention is paid to depicting the color change of the mountains and mountains of the ocean. This one is in the minority, but some opinions can also be referred to, so I won't say much about it here.

In short, this is a complex synthesis that cannot be explained by a single point of view.

The difference between Eastern and Western philosophical thinking directly affects the artist's thinking logic and artistic perspective. Western art and painting are mostly centered on "people", and the origin of this core idea can be traced back to the art of ancient Egypt and ancient Greece. For example, the murals in the pyramids in Egypt are generally used to record the great deeds of the pharaoh (man) in the wild, and the story of the soul returning to the body after death, becoming the son of the god and gaining eternal life.

This kind of in-depth thinking on human life and death also forms the foundation of Western painting art, which is different from the theme of "learning from nature" in Eastern civilization.

With the revival of China's culture and the growing strength of the country, China's art has begun to go to the world and has begun to be valued by people. In this way, we also incorporated more Western elements, rather than blindly accepting their art in its entirety. In this way, our art can develop better and comprehensively, absorb some advanced technologies from the West, and become our own, and Chinese art will have stronger and stronger vitality.

Our current art has achieved a combination of Chinese and Western, but in general, the spiritual connotation is still the traditional culture of our country, and those techniques and techniques are integrated with Western factors.

Traditional Chinese art is freehand, focusing on the relationship between man and nature; Classical Western art is realistic – focusing on the reproduction of nature.

1. Analysis of the differences between Chinese and Western sculpture art.

The emergence of Western sculpture first and foremost as a decoration of architectural art. Ancient Chinese mausoleum sculpture is the art of serving the dead, while most of the portrait sculptures in the West are the art of appreciating the branches for the living, showing the difference in purpose and function between the two.

2. Analysis of the differences between Western painting art.

The pursuit of artistic conception and the mutual development of traditional Chinese philosophy in traditional Chinese painting is a very important aesthetic category in traditional Chinese aesthetics, and it is also the result of the influence of Buddhism. Western painting is based on the human and pure depiction of the object, the pursuit of the accuracy of the modeling, texture, light sense, reproduction, it benefits from the natural sciences, such as physical optics, perspective, human anatomy, color science and other scientific research.

3. Analysis of the differences between Chinese and Western dramatic arts.

Chinese drama emphasizes the lyrical realm, the spiritual realm of man, and the lack of free will, which is the embodiment of the culture of the unity of nature and man; Western drama attaches great importance to the depiction of characters and people's volitional actions, and emphasizes speculation and rationality, which is an inevitable requirement of Western civilization that emphasizes the dichotomy between subject and object of wisdom and conquest.

1. Art is an expression of the social and cultural development of human beings.

Whether in the East or in the West, works of art from ancient times to the present, such as paintings, poems, and articles, are symbolically depicting the era of the time. For example, the forms of Chinese painting, including murals and oil paintings, are continuously described from various angles such as war, economy, and culture, showing us the development of society.

2. Art expresses human creativity.

Whether it is poetry, painting, or dance, they all start from nothing, from messy to complete, and this is all created by human beings.

1. The cultural difference between China and the West is an existence, whether you recognize it or not, it cannot change the fact of this existence.

2. The differences between Chinese and Western cultures in the same time and space will inevitably affect each other, either positive or negative, or even conflict.

3. If you want to achieve the goal of harmonious coexistence, the only way is to understand each other and seek common ground while reserving differences.

4. The key to seeking common ground while reserving differences is to avoid imposing one's own values on each other.

Painting concept:Western painting focuses on thinking, while Eastern painting focuses more on emotion. Therefore, Western painting has strong reproducibility and realistic imagery, and has a higher cognitive value, while Chinese painting is expressive and lyrical.

In the West, philosophy has a great influence on art, and science is closely related to painting, and the philosophical mind and scientific literacy enable painters to cultivate an accurate mind to observe nature, analyze nature with clear geometry and logic methods, and reproduce nature. Chinese painting, on the other hand, pays more attention to the unity of emotion and reason, and the combination of poetry and painting.

Painting on perspective:This is the most fundamental thing, Chinese painting attaches great importance to conception in creation, stresses the intention of the pen first and image thinking, and pays attention to the subjective and objective unity of the artistic image.

In terms of modeling, it is not limited to the superficial resemblance, but emphasizes "the magic lies between the similar and the dissimilar" and "the dissimilar", and combines the focus (one point) perspective with the scattered (multi-point) perspective in perspective; Western painting, on the other hand, focuses on focal perspective, which reflects the appearance of objects objectively and scientifically, and is characterized by realism and objectivity.

Painting Tools:The difference in painting tools also creates the difference between Chinese and Western paintings. Brushes, paper, and painting pigments are unique, and they also reflect the wisdom of the ancient Chinese people, and of course, the craftsmanship level of the entire Western society at that time was also very high.

In the Renaissance period, Western humanities had ups and downs in thought, and many artistic styles were formed.

On the other hand, in ancient China, due to the ideology or reputation rule of the ruling class of feudal society, people were forced to treat the king and the green mountains and rivers within a certain framework, which created the glory of Chinese painting for thousands of years, but also limited the development of the new era of Chinese painting.

Of course, the Gongbi painting developed in the Ming and Qing dynasties also focused on the focal perspective of Western painting in a certain sense (Gongbi architecture is slightly less).

In general, Chinese painting pays attention to artistic conception, and the composition of the picture can be the mountains of the north, the water of the south river, the bamboo in the chest section, the mountains, forests and water buildings, the figures, flowers and birds, the increase and decrease are not a problem, while the Western painting is rigorous in modeling, and the focus perspective determines that it is limited in composition, but it also reflects the fine craftsmanship between the square inches of Western painting.

The difference between Chinese and Western aesthetics is the view of nature, form and wholeness, existence and absence, and the creation and imitation of nature.

1. View of Nature.

China advocates harmony with nature, and the highest level of answer is to integrate into nature, that is, "the unity of nature and man"; The West, on the other hand, advocates the conquest and control of nature.

2. Form and wholeness.

Form is important in Western aesthetics, it is the unity of subjectivity and objectivity; China emphasizes the overall function rather than the absolute form.

3. Presence and non-existence.

The West is based on existence, from existence to substance. The universe is an entity, the opposite of the void; China is based on nothing and starts from nothing. The universe is qi, and the void and the real are born together.

Example: Using Chinese painting and Western painting to compare, Chinese painting (Ma Yijiao Xia half) is a mixture of fiction and reality, paying attention to blank space and full of deep meaning. Western classical painting creates various spirits through the opposition between existence and non-existence.

Fourth, the mind teacher creates and imitates nature.

Different ethnic groups have different aesthetic tendencies, and China and the West are completely different in terms of artistic expression, Qing Wu Shou style, and taste. Chinese aesthetics advocates giving full play to the soul and vision, and comprehending the connection and integration of objects and images and souls; The West pursues to imitate nature in art and objectively reflect the material world.

Reasons for the difference between Chinese and Western aesthetics:

1. Cultural and historical differences.

Chinese aesthetics is influenced by Confucianism and Taoism and has become its own aesthetic system. A series of social and ideological changes in the West from ancient Greece to the Renaissance to modern times have directly created the difference between Eastern and Western aesthetic concepts.

2. Differences in geographical environment.

Since ancient times, China has a vast territory and abundant products, so it has not had close social exchanges with foreign ants, and its spatial awareness is weak, which leads to the Chinese nation's character of seeking stability and tranquility, and lacking interest in new things. In the West, for example, ancient Greece and Rome were geographically located on peninsulas, and the seafaring industry was developed but turbulent, so they focused on the study of natural objects, the expansion of space and the conquest by force.

3. Differences in economic systems.

China's traditional economy is self-sufficient, mainly agricultural civilization, more introverted culture, focusing on ethics and morality, valuing harmony, seeking common ground and seeking stability; Due to the underdevelopment of agriculture, the West likes to explore outward, and Western countries have entered the era of industrial economy very early, which has created Westerners to have a strong fighting spirit and a sense of safeguarding their own interests, and take independence, freedom, and equality as the principles of doing things.