1. POLS 3620
CONTEMPORARY EUROPE AND ASIA
Yeung Ching Wun 10010394
Fung Hon Lam

2. Content
1. Characteristics of Chinese and Western
Painting
2. Ideology behind
3. Integration of Chinese paintings with
western techniques

3. Content
1. Characteristics of Chinese and Western
Painting
2. Ideology behind
3. Integration of Chinese paintings with
western techniques

4. Material of painting - Chinese
Brush
Ink
Ink
Silk Stone
Paper

5. Material of painting - Chinese
Silk Scroll Qīngmíng Shànghé Tú

6. Material of painting - Western
Table
Easel
Canvas
Brushes
Oil Tube

7. Principle of Painting
Chinese Western
" attaches importance " the western art places
to subjectivity value upon objectivity
" using appearance to " using appearance to show
show the spirit the spirit
" art of " art of “manifestation”
“manifestation”

8. Painting Technique - Chinese
• Use of Line
• Simplify the complex landscape nature and
only show a general overview of landscape
Yang Zhi , Horizontal Chinese Landscape Painting of Waterfall Scenery, 1979

9. Western Landscape Painting
• Use of Color
Walt Curlee, Wildflowers Mountains River western original
western landscape oil painting, 1999

10. Subject of Painting (Chinese) -
Anatomy
• Only aimed to express the posture of human
• Not limited by the rule of the proportion body
• Effect of the impaction

11. Subject of Painting (Western) -
Anatomy
• Study about the human’s muscle
and skeleton
• Draw the body of the human like the
real one in the western painting

12. Subject of Painting - Chinese
• Have a tendency to place landscape and
flowers and birds in a strong position

13. Subject of Painting - Western
• Physical body and secular life
were always in the center

14. Background of Painting - Chinese
• Focus on the expression of the sprit
• Aiming to highlight the object and make
it impressive

15. Background of Painting - Western
• The western painting is focus on the realistic so it
must describe the background of the object

16. Content
1. Characteristics of Chinese and Western
Painting
2. Ideology behind
3. Integration of Chinese paintings with
western techniques

17. Implications of Chinese Paintings
• Unity between nature and Man
• Dao De Jing, “grand shape looks vague”
• “Go with nature”

18. Implications of Chinese Paintings
• Communication of soul
• Landscape painting gives
people a sense of “remoteness”,
“out of the world”
• Homology of paintings and poems

19. Implications of Western Paintings
• Humanist philosophy
• “the sole imitator of all the
manifest works of nature”
• Paintings is science

20. Implications of Western Paintings
• Highly realistic linear perspective

21. Implications of Western Paintings
• Influence of Anatomy

22. Content
1. Characteristics of Chinese and Western
Painting
2. Ideology behind
3. Integration of Chinese paintings with
western techniques

23. Integration of Chinese paintings
with Western techniques
• Lingnan School of Painting
• Use colored background
• Focus on color
• Reflect the contemporary society

24. Integration of Chinese paintings
with Western techniques
Chinese painting
Western painting

25. Lingnan Painting

26. Conclusion
• Painting reflect the different philosophy between
china and western countries
• the integration of technique can further enhance
the development of arts

27. THE END
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