7. Principle of Painting
Chinese Western
attaches importance the western art places
to subjectivity value upon objectivity
using appearance to using appearance to show
show the spirit the spirit
art of art of “manifestation”
“manifestation”
8. Painting Technique - Chinese
• Use of Line
• Simplify the complex landscape nature and
only show a general overview of landscape
Yang Zhi , Horizontal Chinese Landscape Painting of Waterfall
Scenery, 1979
9. Western Landscape Painting
• Use of Color
Walt Curlee, Wildflowers Mountains River western
original western landscape oil painting , 1999
10. Subject of Painting (Chinese)
-Anatomy
• Only aimed to express the posture of human
• Not limited by the rule of the proportion body
• Effect of the impaction
11. Subject of Painting (Western)
-Anatomy
• Study about the human’s muscle
and skeleton
• Draw the body of the human like the
real one in the western painting
12. Subject of Painting - Chinese
• Have a tendency to place landscape and
flowers and birds in a strong position
13. Subject of Painting - Western
• Physical body and secular life
were always in the center
14. Background of Painting - Chinese
• Focus on the expression of the sprit
• Aiming to highlight the object and make
it impressive
15. Background of Painting - Western
• The western painting is focus on the realistic so it
must describe the background of the object
16. Content
1. Characteristics of Chinese and Western
Painting
2. Ideology behind
3. Integration of Chinese paintings with
western techniques
17. Implications of Chinese Paintings
• Unity between nature and Man
• Dao De Jing, “grand shape looks vague”
• “Go with nature”
18. Implications of Chinese Paintings
• Communication of soul
• Landscape painting gives
people a sense of “remoteness”,
“out of the world”
• Homology of paintings and poems
19. Implications of Western
Paintings
• Humanist philosophy
• “the sole imitator of all the
manifest works of nature”
• Paintings is science
22. Content
1. Characteristics of Chinese and Western
Painting
2. Ideology behind
3. Integration of Chinese paintings with
western techniques
23. Integration of Chinese paintings
with Western techniques
• Lingnan School of Painting
• Use colored background
• Focus on color
• Reflect the contemporary society
24. Integration of Chinese paintings
with Western techniques
Chinese painting Western painting
26. Conclusion
• Painting reflect the different philosophy between
china and western countries
• the integration of technique can further enhance
the development of arts
The use of color in Chinese landscape painting is simple so that it makes the viewers to have more space to think on the art work
use different colors and sizes to present trees mountain and grass and also he use light and shadow on the surface of the river in order to give a realistic look
Chinese painting from Tang Dynasty had had the motif of landscape and flowers and birds in a strong position and entered the mainstream in Song Dynasty with figure portrait gradually declining.
In western paintings, physical body and secular life were always in the center and the heaven in which gods inhabited was an idealized version of the earth.
The background is not taken seriously in Chinese painting Very common in Chinese painting that there is large spare room in the painting
Everything has background. For example, the background of fruit is a table. The background of figure is indoor or outdoor. So the painting is full of color, without spare room in it
