中国绘画(英文版)Chinese Painting: Capturing the Spirit of Nature with Brushes

"raditional chinese painting was fundamentally an abstract art form.although there were no absolute abstract chinese paintings in its originalmeaning, objects in a painting were not a direct copy of the nature worldfollowing the principle of perspective. it was rather a, combination orharmony between the nature world and human emotion, a product of""heaven (nature) and human"". the effect chinese painters would like toillustrate in their paintings was not a visual effect of colors and patternsas their western counterparts would like to achieve. the description ofobjects in their paintings was no means accurate and few concerned aboutsuch factors as colors, principle of perspective, anatomy, surface feel, andrelative size. what they would like to achieve was a world in their mind ofnon materials. the nature world was not an object for them to make a truecopy and it was rather elements for them to build their own world.
《中国绘画(英文版)》由林茨著。"
"traditional chinese painting was fundamentally an abstract art form.although there were no absolute abstract chinese paintings in its originalmeaning, objects in a painting were not a direct copy of the nature worldfollowing the principle of perspective. it was rather a, combination orharmony between the nature world and human emotion, a product of""heaven (nature) and human"". the effect chinese painters would like toillustrate in their paintings was not a visual effect of colors and patternsas their western counterparts would like to achieve. the description ofobjects in their paintings was no means accurate and few concerned aboutsuch factors as colors, principle of perspective, anatomy, surface feel, andrelative size. what they would like to achieve was a world in their mind ofnon materials. the nature world was not an object for them to make a truecopy and it was rather elements for them to build their own world.
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