Chinese painting emphasizes artistic conception and is skilled at leaving blank spaces, while Western painting focuses on the restoration of specific real scenes.
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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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dark color versus light color
rational versus emotional
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Chinese traditional paintings focus on expressing the artist's ideas and emphasizing the artistic conception, while Western ones pay more attention to realistic depiction. Chinese landscape paintings aim to convey thoughts and feelings, while Western ones focus more on describing the objects before their eyes.
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1. It’s inaccurate to say Chinese landscape paintings have no central figures and only show pure nature due to "the unity of heaven and man"—they often imply human integration with nature
2. Claiming Western landscape paintings are more realistic is one-sided, as Chinese "freehand" style isn’t unrealistic, and Western works also include non-realistic types.
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Chinese painting is characterized by the interplay of reality and virtuality, with a focus on leaving blank spaces, while Western painting is characterized by the use of light, shadow, and color to shape and highlight the bigger picture. The core of 'unity of heaven and man' is the harmonious unity between humans and nature, where humans are a part of nature rather than opposites. There is more than one kind of "reality": Chinese painting pursues the "authenticity of artistic conception" and "authenticity of spirit"
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1. The view linking "tian ren heyi" to Chinese landscapes has some merit—it captures the focus on man-nature harmony but overlooks works with subtle human figures that blend into nature, not total absence of humans.
2. The claim that Western landscapes are more realistic is partially true but ignores Chinese "xieyi" (freehand style) as a different "truth" of nature’s essence, and non-realistic Western styles like Impressionism.
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These two sentences are too absolute, not all paintings in Chinese landscape painting do not contain characters, they only focus on depicting the scene, and at the same time, Chinese landscape painting always gives people a foggy feeling, and this is indeed the characteristic of Chinese landscape
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These points capture some stylistic differences but oversimplify. They see surface contrasts: Chinese landscapes often minimize human figures to emphasize nature's vastness, aligning with tian ren heyi, while Western landscapes frequently center human narratives and employ linear perspective for realism. However, they overlook that Chinese art is not purely "natural" but a philosophical construct where nature is idealized, not copied, and human presence is implied through poetic harmony. Western realism is not merely literal but often symbolic, serving religious, political, or personal themes. Both traditions are diverse and context-dependent; neither is wholly "realistic" or purely "natural."
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1. These two points are partly reasonable but overly simplistic.
2. What they see: The "tian ren heyi" idea does shape many Chinese landscape paintings (e.g., subtle human elements blending with nature), while Western landscapes (especially pre-modern) often emphasize realistic perspective and detail.
3. What they overlook: Chinese landscapes do include human figures (e.g., scholars, fishermen) to highlight harmony, not "no humans." Western art has non-realistic landscapes (e.g., Impressionism), and Chinese art has realistic traditions (e.g., Song Dynasty court paintings). They ignore the diversity within both artistic systems.
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