Differences between China's Painting and Western Painting and Some Comparisons between Eastern and Western Cultures

Traditional western paintings are realistic, depicting the emotions and sorrows of characters deeply and truly, and understanding life more extroverted, flamboyant and logical. China's paintings are abstract, ethereal and emotional, expressing his emotions and understanding of life through brush and ink lines and decorative colors. Westerners choose canvas, oil painting and marble, while China people choose pen, ink, paper, inkstone and mud. China culture is a simple and restrained culture, just as westerners like diamonds and gold, while China people like jade and ceramics.

Han paintings by young ceramists.

Western modern painting has absorbed the elements of oriental culture, African culture and other regional cultures, and its symbolic painting is getting stronger and stronger. The existence of western abstract painting and conceptual art is the result of many western artists drawing lessons from eastern culture and other regional cultures in the last century. Modern Chinese painting also incorporates many western painting elements. People in China think that everything will turn to dust, and individual life will blend into the life of the universe. However, westerners' culture hopes to establish their own life world, and their different outlook on life makes their art present different forms and styles.

Ceramic works of pottery figurines in Han Dynasty: red sitting figures inlaid in blue and white glaze, and now the jade art ceramics museum is hidden.

Ceramic works of Han figurines: blue-and-white glazed red lotus Zen porcelain plate, now in the Jade Art Ceramics Museum.

Many contemporary arts belong to the category of non-conceptual art and anti-art, which is another complete rebellion against traditional art, because the experiment itself has become art, and it has no boundaries. We hope to know nothingness through everything possible, and human art will always blend with each other and find its independent balance, just like the movement of life in the universe. As long as our life exists one day, the novelty of unknown life will exist one day, and the exploration and unyielding desire for life will continue. (Editor: Jiang Mumu)