Chinese Painting Blog » western paintings https://www.artisoo.com/blog Chinese art globe share Sat, 11 Oct 2014 03:58:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Differences between Chinese Landscapes and Western Landscapes https://www.artisoo.com/blog/the-differences-between-chinese-landscapes-and-western-landscapes/ https://www.artisoo.com/blog/the-differences-between-chinese-landscapes-and-western-landscapes/#comments Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:40:35 +0000 CNArtGallery http://www.artisoo.com/blog/?p=1104 Continue reading →]]> Landscape painting is the major theme of Chinese paintings in china, it origins from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which is 1600 years ago. In china, landscape painting is called “Shan Shui”, which means mountain and river (Shaw 1988). Usually the purpose of Chinese landscape painting is not only represent the exact appearance of nature, but also reflects the painter’s feelings and emotions to the landscape and his philosophy of life.

In contrast, western painting originated from ancient Greece and Rome and its development was contemporaneous with other art forms such as music, dance and sculpture. The contents that western paintings portrayed were closely associated with people’s daily life.

Mountains, water - Chinese Painting

Mountains, water - Chinese Painting

Chinese landscape painting is created using ink brush, ink stick, ink stone and Xuan paper. Oil painting is the main type of western painting. Painters usually draw contents on cloth, board, canvas or thick paper with oily pigments. The characteristic of oil painting is the rich of colour that has a strong artistic expression and can express the realistic sense of the objects.

A River 1899

A River 1899

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