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The difference between Eastern and Western painting
Sogang University in Korea
20030219 Seok, Seung-il
At the beginning One day, I read an article in Internet. The guy insists that eastern pictures have more complicated subject and sharp expression than western pictures; however, people evaluate the eastern picture with the western standard so that eastern pictures are low-evaluated. At the moment, I find myself to know nothing about eastern painting, even though I am one of the eastern people. I have learned lots of famous western pictures since middle and high school; on the contrary, no one explained the difference point of view between eastern and western painting. I have little information about eastern picture. Thus, I decide to compare and analyze the difference of each painting at this chance.
Comparison & Analysis
1. Perspective on nature
Eastern – All things are regarded as a part of nature, even human in eastern picture. Most of the traditional pictures describe a landscape around us; for example, mountain, river, flowers and trees. Look at the picture 1. Even though there is a man in painting, he is not the focus but just a factor of whole nature. Western – Nature is the object to be managed by human in western picture. There exists belief that human is a center of the world and we can use nature for our purpose. According to this trend, there are lots of portraits in western traditional pictures. Look at picture 2 and 3. The most important theme of these pictures is a human. The environment is limited and has the role of just a background.
Picture 2
Picture 1 Picture3
2. Painting materials
Eastern – It’s common using Chinese drawing paper and Chinese ink. This ink has been spread well on the paper and the color is monotonous. Besides, it’s very hard to paint again on painting which has
Sogang University in Korea
20030219 Seok, Seung-il
At the beginning One day, I read an article in Internet. The guy insists that eastern pictures have more complicated subject and sharp expression than western pictures; however, people evaluate the eastern picture with the western standard so that eastern pictures are low-evaluated. At the moment, I find myself to know nothing about eastern painting, even though I am one of the eastern people. I have learned lots of famous western pictures since middle and high school; on the contrary, no one explained the difference point of view between eastern and western painting. I have little information about eastern picture. Thus, I decide to compare and analyze the difference of each painting at this chance.
Comparison & Analysis
1. Perspective on nature
Eastern – All things are regarded as a part of nature, even human in eastern picture. Most of the traditional pictures describe a landscape around us; for example, mountain, river, flowers and trees. Look at the picture 1. Even though there is a man in painting, he is not the focus but just a factor of whole nature. Western – Nature is the object to be managed by human in western picture. There exists belief that human is a center of the world and we can use nature for our purpose. According to this trend, there are lots of portraits in western traditional pictures. Look at picture 2 and 3. The most important theme of these pictures is a human. The environment is limited and has the role of just a background.
Picture 2
Picture 1 Picture3
2. Painting materials
Eastern – It’s common using Chinese drawing paper and Chinese ink. This ink has been spread well on the paper and the color is monotonous. Besides, it’s very hard to paint again on painting which has