What are the characteristics of western classical art?

Western flower arrangement has the characteristics of western art, its shape is neat, mostly composed of geometric figures, paying attention to symmetry and balance, with strong colors, more materials and intensive flower arrangement. The selected flower material has a certain meaning of etiquette. Western flower arrangements are usually bright and bright, with regular patterns. One of the characteristics of western flower arrangement is the large amount of flowers and rich colors.

Principles and artistic characteristics of western flower arrangement

Western flower arrangement pays attention to geometric modeling. This paper discusses its principle and artistic characteristics from four aspects: balance, harmony, rhythm and artistic conception:

balance

Balance is the sense of stability of a work, which can be divided into symmetrical balance and asymmetrical balance. Because western flower arrangement is a regular geometric composition, the balance problem is easy to solve. Common methods to achieve balance are:

1. Distribute the main color flowers symmetrically and evenly on the whole composition to achieve a balanced effect;

2. The central part of the composition uses flowers with large flowers, dark colors, dense arrangement and thick texture, and the edges use flowers opposite to the central part, thus highlighting the theme and center of gravity and achieving a balanced composition.

Because western-style flower arrangement uses a lot of flower materials, it is easy to form top-heavy and lose balance. Therefore, wide-mouth containers with large volume and heavy texture, such as ceramics and metal materials, are often used. A large number of flower arrangements and table flower arrangements often use several large flowers in the middle and lower part or some filiform, spike-like leaves and other accessories (such as conifers and cypresses) at the base. Use natural and elegant appendages to highlight key points and achieve a balanced and stable effect.

(2) reconciliation

Harmony has both contrast and change, giving people a sense of harmony and unity. The harmony of flower arrangement includes the harmony between flower materials, the harmony between flower materials and flower devices, and the harmony between works and the environment. This paper mainly discusses the harmony between flowers and materials. The main factors affecting the harmony of flower materials are shape and color, among which color is the main factor, and there are four main techniques:

1, using the same flower material with the same color, the color changes little, only the shape and size change, without contrast, and naturally achieve harmony.

2. The flowers are made of materials with similar hue and hue, which have certain changes or similarities in shape, such as red and pink, and the colors are natural and harmonious. It is often solved through the relative concentration and gradual transition of the same flower.

3, the same shape, use contrasting colors, such as red and white, green and red, yellow and purple. For example, the flowers of two colors are arranged relatively evenly in composition, or one color is relatively concentrated, such as bright yellow in the middle and gradually transitioning to purple, so that the two colors can be coordinated in contrast.

4. The color and shape of flower materials vary greatly and often appear in a lot of flower arrangements. This kind of works adopts the method of harmony: first, the larger flowers with harmonious shapes and colors are the main body, and the number is dominant. When inserted, it occupies the main position, distributed in all parts of the composition, and then blended with white. Borrowing ribbons and gold and silver containers also helps to reconcile.

(3) rhythm

Rhythm is an organized and rhythmic change, mainly the change of shape and color. Western-style flower arrangement (especially a large number of flower arrangements) works should have several main flowers (focus flowers) in both shape and color, and then they should be matched with second-and third-grade flowers (thread flowers) and ingredients (auxiliary flowers). The patchwork and well-defined one-by-one insertion system embodies the rhythm of moistening things quietly and distinguishing priorities.

(D) Artistic conception

Western flower arrangement directly and enthusiastically expresses people's emotional world. For example, mother's day uses carnations, Easter uses lilies and red roses to express love, laurel branches represent victory, and olive branches represent peace and equality. At Christmas, people like to use poinsettia as the main flower, with green pine branches, Hollyleaf, white carnations and red fruits, reflecting the fiery and cheerful atmosphere of Christmas.

Generally speaking, there are two schools of western painting art, one is realism, or figurative. The way to know and grasp nature is purely objective and always runs through the scientific spirit. The painter's method of observing and studying nature is mainly sketching. It is required that the object, light source, environment and viewpoint are fixed, that is, only the position and viewpoint of the objective scene can be selected when creating, and the objective world of three-dimensional space can be reproduced scientifically and accurately in strict accordance with the principles of physics and optics, and the accuracy of applying and embodying the principles of perspective, anatomy and brilliance is an important measure of artistic quality. Therefore, the painter's kung fu is used on objects and light and shadow that can be seen by the eyes, and it is not allowed to increase any individual's thoughts and imagination. With the development of science and technology, there have been schools of painting that express X-ray, infrared spectrum, light speed, laser lighting effect and so on. These are invisible to the naked eye, in order to further reflect the latest scientific and technological achievements from the pictures. The second is abstraction. Western art always goes to extremes. After artists were tired of concrete realism, from impressionism, in just a few decades, some people turned from one extreme of concrete to the other. Abstraction is just the opposite of realism which strictly reproduces the objective image. The creative method is to deform the natural image, pursue abstract decoration and visual effect, or express personal subjective thought experience, even subconscious mind, subconscious mind and various secret psychology with the abstract combination of light color and geometry. With the exaggerated and distorted creative methods becoming more and more extreme, some people even throw away their brushes and start installing art and performance art. Some avant-garde advertised by western modernism and post-modernism are actually far away from reality, rebelling against all traditional cultures and moral concepts, and are increasingly inclined to pathological self-expression, which has caused great interference and destruction to the normal artistic development, and is bound to be difficult to arouse the audience's * * * and the broad masses of the people's acceptance.

Painting shows a colorful world, just like bringing people to a wide Yuan Ye embroidered with flowers and green. In a painting, all kinds of lines are like the melody of nature, like the music and dance of invisible people, and more like the invisible spring breeze, which makes the colors of life fly, such as the rhythm of music and poetry. In the creation of painting, China tradition has always admired those cultural people who are good at painting without taking painting as a special occupation. A painter known as a literati painter should have both cultural accomplishment and painting skills. Therefore, the highest value of painting art is hidden in the artist's utilitarian motivation. Painting is a kind of heartfelt emotion, which dominates the generation of images, resonates with the colors, lines, textures, structures and spaces on the screen, with the painter's mind, and then with the viewer's mind. As a result, a kind of painting was summed up by China sages as "the unity of heaven and man"-pure painting. There is always a reason for a person to start painting. He expresses his attitude, object or lyricism towards the things around him, writes what he sees in a specific space, and leaves the figure of the object on the screen. It may even be unconscious imitation. Between pen and ink, thoughts leading to life and feelings leading to all things in nature are reflected and stacked. The trance state, freedom of association and ecstasy are all carried out on the edge of consciousness. The melodic movements of lines and faces are not easy to predict, and sometimes there will be surprises and jumps, which are in line with the heartbeat rhythm. Finally, with the help of God, they get unexpected echoes, become the solidification of life in various colored chapters, and impact the hearts of every viewer.

Traditional Chinese painting is often only a few strokes, but there are too many things you can read from this painting. Therefore, as Professor Yu said just now, China's paintings are real China paintings and China paintings with China cultural charm. You can really read the essence of all oriental cultures and arts.