2. Chinese painting attaches importance to the relationship between art and nature, emphasizing "writing spirit with form" and paying attention to artistic conception and charm; Diverse perspectives. The west, on the other hand, is above nature, adopting focus perspective and rewriting the form.
3. Chinese painting has something in common with poetry, so it advocates "poetry in painting"; "Painting in poetry" is "poetic and picturesque", but western painting is not. Emphasis on modeling, reproduction, rationality, time and space, light and color effects.
China's paintings depict the hometown of soul, while western paintings depict the hometown of life.
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The Origin of China's Painting
The origin of China's paintings can be traced back to the Neolithic Age about 1 10,000 years ago. The patterns carved on rock walls and animal bones, the patterns painted on pottery, and the shapes of people and animals painted on the ground and walls, although rough and naive, have the basic performance of expressing images in plane space, which can be regarded as the earliest painting art in China.
According to records, there were portraits of historical figures in the Zhou Dynasty and large murals in the Spring and Autumn Period. From the bronze decorative patterns, lacquer paintings and silk paintings unearthed from Chu tombs, it can be seen that the characteristics of line modeling have been formed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The painting art in Qin and Han Dynasties was very developed. There are murals and portraits, historical paintings and supernatural paintings, with diverse themes and different types. At that time, you can see a large number of murals, stone reliefs, brick reliefs, silk paintings, lacquer paintings, etc.
Its murals are vivid and concise, and its brushwork is unpretentious, showing a sense of movement, strength and speed in a simple and naive form. Most of its portrait bricks are all kinds of life scenes, with exaggerated and concise shapes and emphasis on overall dynamic description.
Its silk paintings are full of romance. For example, the silk paintings without clothes unearthed from the No.1 Han Tomb in Mawangdui, Hunan Province, are beautifully made, with accurate shapes and smooth and changeable lines. They are still fresh and beautiful when colored with mineral pigments such as stone, bluestone and green. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhist murals flourished unprecedentedly. Dunhuang Mogao grottoes have the largest number of murals and are the most wonderful.
The appearance of scroll painting and literati painters such as Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei and Zhang Sengyou marked that China's painting has entered a new stage of being more conscious and rational. Figure painting tends to be mature, and accurate body proportion, beautiful line drawing and in-depth expression portrayal have replaced the characteristics of naivety and dynamic expression in Han Dynasty painting. At the same time, the earliest landscape painting appeared, and China's earliest independent painting theory came into being. Paintings in the Sui and Tang Dynasties were still dominated by religious themes.
The prevalence of Buddhism not only provides material conditions and audiences for painters to display their creative talents, but also establishes their social status. Therefore, many painters engaged in the creation of temple murals have greatly improved their artistic level. At the same time, figure painting, which shows the life of the world, is highly prosperous, pushing figure painting from "simple elegance" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the realm of "precision". With the rapid development of landscape painting, flowers and birds, ghosts and gods, cattle and horses, houses and so on. It began to become an independent family, and for a time famous artists came forth in large numbers, which made the paintings in the Tang Dynasty colorful.
The painting art in the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty further matured and improved, reaching the peak of ancient painting in China. Temple murals have declined, and secular life, landscapes, flowers and birds have become painters' favorite themes. The educational function of painting has gradually weakened, while the aesthetic, emotional and entertainment functions have received unprecedented attention. The appearance of literati painters makes painting draw nutrition from poetry and pay more attention to poetic expression.
More sophisticated and refined in materials, tools and skills. Ink painting is more mature than before, and heavy color painting is more neat and beautiful. Generally speaking, the paintings in Song Dynasty are more delicate, diversified, lyrical and human. The transformation of painting function has also changed the structure of its creation and appreciation.
The special situation of intellectuals in Yuan Dynasty and the expansion of literati's painting thought made painting have a turning point and variation of the times. Painting in the Yuan Dynasty was mainly based on scrolls, and more paper was used. Paper can give full play to the function of thirsty pen, thus making brushwork unprecedentedly rich. Compared with Song paintings, paper can better express the various textures of objects and the delicate feelings of artists.
Song people advocated painting with poetry, emphasizing the change of space and taste. Yuan people advocated painting with books, emphasizing the sense of form of pen and ink. From the perspective of painting itself, meta-painting has taken a big step towards perfection. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, landscape flower-and-bird paintings were more numerous, while religious paintings and figure paintings declined. There are many schools of landscape painting in Ming Dynasty, which further developed the formal style of traditional painting in China.
After the middle of Ming Dynasty, elegance and vulgarity merged. Famous painters set foot in the creation of literary illustrations, New Year pictures and manuscripts, which brought new vitality to the art of painting. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, social contradictions were unprecedentedly acute, and a large number of outstanding painters emerged, such as the Four Painting Monks, the Four Kings and the Eight Jinling Artists. It highlights another peak in China's painting history.
During the Qianlong period (1736 ~ 1796), the emergence of Yangzhou School and Maritime School in the late Qing Dynasty made the painting circle in the middle and late Qing Dynasty glow again. The trend of appealing to both refined and popular tastes is more obvious. After the Revolution of 1911, under the impact and influence of western culture, China's paintings are faced with the possibility of multiple choices in concept and value orientation.
However, art for life, the general trend of close combination of painting creation and practice has become the mainstream, and realistic painting has gradually occupied the first place. After 1950s, on the basis of the combination of Xu Beihong's painting school and the painting system of the former Soviet Union, painting has brought great development to politics and people. Since 1980s, China's painting has developed towards multi-level and multi-state, and has seen unprecedented prosperity.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Comparison of Chinese and Western Works of Art