What's the difference between western art and China art?

Art is something that can stimulate people's imagination. To be exact, as an art, it should first be a reflection of people's thoughts. Secondly, people create an image in their own thoughts according to its nature and characteristics, and finally it has artistic value. Under different cultural and historical backgrounds, people's artistic images will be very different, which mainly depends on people's appreciation of art and the origin of art. People in different countries have different understandings of art. Here, let me talk about some differences between China art and western art. First, the roots of art are different. As one of the four ancient civilizations, China's historical origin is the main basis for its artistic roots. From its historical background and humanistic environment, we can see that China's art is educated by Confucianism, which largely determines the development form of China's art, that is to say, China's art represents the mainstream of Confucianism at least ideologically. Although Confucianism has been impacted by various ideological trends for more than two thousand years, it is difficult to erase its deep-rooted growth in the minds of China people. Some people say that Confucianism restricts the development of China's art, which makes us suspicious. In a deeper understanding, the Confucian ideological system can also be called "Confucianism". Compared with the other three major religions in the world (Buddhism, Christianity and Islam), Confucianism is much inferior in content. The lack of theology and creativity in Confucianism is a major defect in artistic creation and expression, which greatly limits the development of individual art. We do not deny the inherent characteristics of China art brought by Confucianism, such as architectural art, painting art, poetry art and so on. Among them, many artists in China have also achieved high reputation in the world, especially in the field of poetic art, and Qu Yuan's Poem Sao has left a huge cultural heritage to the world. In terms of carving art, it is also carried forward because of the input of Confucianism. Western art was impacted by the new trend of thought in the Middle Ages, especially the Enlightenment and Renaissance, which completely refreshed people's understanding of art ... Even though many countries still retain their original artistic styles, they can't cover up the coverage of a trend after all. The Renaissance mainly implemented the European continent to restore ancient Greece, absorbed some humanistic thoughts of ancient Greece, attached importance to human values and significance, and made art flourish. This is different from the baptism of China's artistic concept in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It seems to be only some changes in form, but it still cannot shake off the shadow of Confucianism in essence. Is it China's lack of initiative in artistic creation? Actually, it is not. According to historical records, ancient China is not inferior to western countries in both artistic achievements and ideological consciousness, which only shows that a nation's artistic understanding is different from other nations, but its way of thinking is different. Second, art exists in people's minds in different forms. In a sense, art exists in people's minds as a concept, which shows that art cannot be separated from living things. Since the carrier of art is thought and thought is active, it can spread in any form, which is enough to show that there are artistic differences between different countries. We know that art is a broad concept, that is to say, there are many kinds of images as art, taking poetry as an example. As an art, poetry will have its own artistic value, and its value is what people learn from it. This requires us to understand rationally and emotionally. The artistic style of China's poems, as a whole, is to integrate objective things into the poet's subjective feelings, or to say, the poet vented his feelings on objective things. As western poetry, poets tend to objectify a subjective lyric, that is, poets describe the emotional world of characters without commenting on their behavior. Poets such as Shakespeare, Tennyson, Browning, etc. all try to describe the characters from a supernatural point of view, in an attempt to express people's various psychological States, without the poet's own subjective color. Let's compare Shakespeare's poems with those taught by Cai Qi: Oh, be gentle, what light shines in that window over there? -Shakespeare: I pray for more rain in summer and less rain in winter. I pray that the flowers are red and purple. I pray that love will not be laughed at ...-Cai Qijiao From their poems, we can see that Shakespeare's description of objective scenery does not have subjective will, or the subjective feelings expressed are not obvious. However, the subjective feelings expressed in Cai's poems are fervent. These are two different artistic styles of poetry. Perhaps it is impossible for a poem to completely get rid of the shackles of subjective feelings, but it is only expressed in different ways. This is the difference between Chinese and western poetic artistic thoughts. If you change to other art forms, the difference is also obvious. Different nations and countries have created different artistic reflection consciousness. Third, the primary and secondary positions of artistic image-building are different. I said that art is an ornament, and maybe no one will object. Anyone who knows a little about the beauty of art will know that it is natural for artists to put the most attractive figures in the art in the most conspicuous position in this art, just like we put a most beautiful ornament in the living room. When we appreciate a work of art in China, it is often difficult to see anything from the outside. China's art is appreciated for its unique inner beauty. Appreciating China's artistic works does not lie in the superficial visual beauty and auditory beauty, but more importantly, the inner beauty with deeper significance. Let's analyze western art again. From the perspective of architectural beauty alone, western art seems to be better than China art, and it has a stronger visual impact on the appearance. This shows that the shaping of western art pays more attention to formal beauty. Let's look at the art of poetry again. Mr. Liang Daizong said that modern European and American poetry pays special attention to the architectural beauty of poetic forms, which undoubtedly points out that western poetry pays attention to the rich forms of expressing art, and poetry is an art. This does not mean that China's art does not pay attention to the formal beauty of art, but that western art is more prominent. Zhu Ziqing expounded the necessity of architectural beauty from the artistic characteristics of poetry. He said: "Poetry is an artistic feature, which seems to be beating around the bush. To put it bluntly, that's what I said. " This makes the necessity of formal beauty even more abrupt. I think it is difficult for a work of art to have both form and spirit. And the art we see, whether it is a formal success or a spiritual success, is also art, and it is hard to say which style is more valuable. China art and western art are originally two different styles. Maybe the differences between them are more than that. We need to further explore their respective artistic values.