Characteristics of Chinese and Western Fine Arts

As an important part of western culture, western art has its unique artistic style and characteristics in each period.

Ancient Greek and Roman period

Artists in ancient Greece and Rome pursued true and idealized beauty. This writer's artistic works pay attention to the human body and the accuracy of proportion and form. Architecture and sculpture are the main artistic forms of writers.

revive

Renaissance artists pursued the beauty of humanism and classicism. Art works take religion, history and myth as themes, and pay attention to the expression of characters and emotions. Painting and sculpture are the main art forms.

grotesque

Artists in the Baroque period pursued emotional and dramatic beauty. Art works take religion and history as themes, paying attention to light and shadow effects and dynamic expression. Painting and architecture are the main art forms.

Romantic period

Artists in The Romantic Period pursue the beauty of individual freedom. Works of art take nature and history as themes, and pay attention to depicting scenery and characters' emotions. Painting and sculpture are the main art forms.

Modernism period

Artists in the modernist period pursue innovation and experimental beauty. Artistic works take diversity and anti-tradition as the theme, and pay attention to expressing personal feelings and social problems. Painting, sculpture and multimedia art are the main art forms.

Differences between Chinese and Western Fine Arts

line

Chinese painting uses lines, while western painting has no obvious lines. In Chinese painting, draw an egg-shaped line to represent a person's face. In fact, there are no such lines around people's faces. This line is the dividing line between face and background. Western painting only has the boundaries of things, and the boundaries are not drawn.

transillumination

China's paintings don't pay attention to perspective. The standing of Chinese painting and the overlapping of mountains and rivers seem to be seen on a plane, because people in China paint like poems, and they can paint whenever they want, so they can't be bound by perspective. Western painting pays great attention to perspective, which is as simple as the real thing, so it pays great attention to perspective.

Artistic conception thinking

China's paintings don't emphasize the background, while Chinese paintings emphasize the vividness, so in order to leave an impression, Qiang Ming with trivial and close-up themes must be deleted. Western painting attaches great importance to the background, while western painting attaches great importance to realism, so it is necessary to describe the background.

Form of expression?

The emphasis of painting is different. Oriental art emphasizes subjectivity, while western art emphasizes objectivity. Oriental art is poetic, while western art is dramatic. Therefore, in painting, China's paintings emphasize verve, while western paintings emphasize similarity.