It mistakenly confuses "non-central human figures" in Chinese landscape paintings with "no human figures," superficially interprets "tian ren he yi," overlooks the diversity of Chinese landscape painting schools, simplifies "realism," ignores Western paintings' post-realism evolution, misjudges Chinese painting techniques, and neglects their historical dynamics and cultural essence differences.
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2. Your idea on the difference between Chinese traditional painting and western landscape painting.
1）Describe: from the layout of the paintings, what are the obvious differences between Chinese and Western paintings?
2）Argue: Some western scholars argue, based on the apparent formal differences between Chinese and Western landscape paintings, first that the Chinese have the idea of“heaven and man merging into one”( tian ren heyi 天人合一), man is not separated from nature and Chinese landscape thus represents pure nature with no human figures in the center"; second, "Western landscape tends to be more realistic than its Chinese counterpart". How do you agree with these two points? Do they seem reasonable to you? What do they see? What do they overlook?
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Against these two points. Although "tian ren he yi" influences a lot to Chinese paintings, it does not mean there's no humans in landscape paintings. Firstly, some humans in landscape paintings are really in the paintings. They are just a small part of the painting to describe the mass of landscapes. More importantly, the paintings reflect the artist's' thoughts.
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Both of these viewpoints are one-sided. They only see the surface and ignore the different perspectives resulting from the cultural differences between China and the West. In Chinese landscape paintings, it is not that there are no people, but rather that people and scenery are integrated. What we see everywhere is the result of the processing by the painter's brush. And it is said that Western landscape paintings are more realistic than Chinese landscape paintings because Western paintings have richer colors and are more realistic, while Chinese landscape paintings place more emphasis on freehand expression.
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Reasonableness：
1."Tian ren heyi": Many Chinese landscapes integrate small humans into nature, matching the cultural harmony concept.
2. "Western realism": Traditional Western landscapes stress detailed, lifelike scenery, seeming more realistic.
Overlooks：
1. "Tian ren heyi": Some Chinese paintings highlight humans.Western landscapes also pursue nature connection.
2. "Realism": Chinese art has realistic genres .Modern Western art abandons strict realism.
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Chinese paintings are good at leaving blank spaces while Western paintings focus on colors.
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Chinese painting employs a multi-perspective, scattered composition often in vertical scrolls, creating a rhythmic journey through nature, while Western landscape painting typically uses a single, fixed-point perspective within a rectangular frame to create a window-like, static snapshot of a scene.These observations are reasonable but oversimplified; they correctly see that Chinese aesthetics reflect a philosophical integration with nature and Western art a mastery of the physical world, but they overlook the frequent, symbolic presence of humans in Chinese landscapes and the deeply idealized, often non-realistic allegorical purposes behind Western landscapes.
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Chinese painting focuses on the artistic conception with loose point perspective and white space. Western landscape painting focuses on focal point perspective and full-frame composition, seeking to reproduce real scenes.
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