Characteristics of Western Garden Art

1. The gardening art of western gardens completely rejects nature, strives to embody strict rationality, and develops meticulously according to pure geometric structure and mathematical relationship. Forcing nature to accept the law of symmetry has become the basic creed of western gardening art.

There are many forms of western gardens, from a scenic spot, the ancient emperor's garden or royal garden to private gardens. Garden, like architecture, is a practical art category closely related to people's daily life, but the architecture of garden is to meet people's needs of yearning for nature and enjoying natural beauty, and its aesthetic function is more prominent than architecture.

3. The artistic features of western gardens are prominently reflected in the layout and structure of gardens. The huge building is the command of the garden, always standing on the starting point of the central axis which is very prominent in the garden. Based on this building, the whole garden constitutes the main axis of the whole garden.

4. Western garden art puts forward three elements of "wholeness, harmony and uniqueness" and pursues rigor and rationality. Europeans' thinking habits since ancient times tend to explore the inherent laws of things, and like to put forward and solve problems in a clear way to form a clear understanding. This kind of thinking habit is symmetrical, balanced and orderly in aesthetics.

Extended data

The occurrence and development of eastern and western garden art in different cultural and social backgrounds, of course, also formed a unique style and cultural quality that the other side does not have. From a philosophical point of view, the early regular gardens in the West are the reflection of the traditional rationalism in the West. It is believed that only strict geometric composition can guarantee the realization of beauty, while the later natural landscape gardens represent empirical philosophy.

Oriental gardens, represented by China gardens, mostly pursue the beauty of artistic conception, not the vivid image of natural landscapes, but the freehand description and refinement of nature, that is, it originates from nature and is higher than nature; Western gardening art is mostly devoted to the transformation and processing of nature.

However, there is also a deep identity between eastern and western garden art: regardless of the east or the west, gardens are built to realize people's ideals, and both gardens also reflect their love and imitation of nature. The difference is that oriental gardens imitate natural and beautiful mountains and rivers, while western gardens imitate natural agricultural landscapes, fields and pastures cultivated by human beings.

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