Differences between Chinese and Western Paintings

Western painting is rational and scientific from the beginning. It is even more obvious in design. Modern design originated in Germany, where it is more rational and scientific. In the Bauhaus system, painting and design are integrated. Here, the picture is broken down into points, lines and surfaces, all of which are abstracted. It is easy to master it systematically and comprehensively, especially for beginners. The color is also analyzed scientifically and reasonably. Modern psychology and physiology are also integrated into the analysis of pictures. In contrast, China's paintings tend to be emotional. All laws and regulations are mysterious, and the phrase "can understand but can't express" summarizes everything. For example, facing a work, it feels good and the picture is beautiful. However, when asked why they feel this way, the western viewpoint will tell the methods used to achieve this effect from a series of rational analysis such as the point, line and plane distribution of the picture and the handling of the color relationship. , and China people will say that it is achieved by personal feelings and artistic accomplishment, which will make people confused. In fact, sometimes this feeling is really confusing. Therefore, before the birth of modernism, western painting focused on the reproduction of objective images, focusing on science and rationality, and then turned to the expression and catharsis of emotional elements under the influence of oriental and African art, which was closer to China's traditional painting for thousands of years. Someone once said that oriental art is the highest realm of art, which is somewhat extreme, but it is also reasonable. I think it should be said that the highest state of art is regardless of national boundaries and races. Rationality-science-freedom, I think this is a vein of the development of western painting. Therefore, I understand why domestic art colleges have always been based on the western painting system, thinking that it is easier to start with scientific rationality, but what is needed in the later stage is the free realm of oriental art, which is really a change of "there must be evidence in the law". Looking back on my painting road, it was a traditional oriental way from the beginning, so many of them relied on my own understanding. Now it is a process from freedom to rationality and then to freedom, that is, "there are not many laws", which is quite interesting in retrospect. It is no wonder that people often say that "teaching learns from each other", and the process of teaching is also a process of continuous learning and improvement. The integration of Chinese and western cultures should follow the golden mean, rather than favoring one side over the other. In teaching, it should also be a combination of the two concepts, but each class has its own emphasis.

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