Study On Relation Between Landscape Painting And Chinese Classical Gardens

Simulating ecosystem and plant growth status in nature is the spiritual home of Chinese landscape painting and Chinese historical gardens. The close relation between Chinese landscape painting and Chinese historical gardens is the reflection of the "universality" and "inheritance" in Chinese traditional aesthetics. In the development process of several thousands years, Chinese landscape painting and Chinese historical gardens reciprocally infiltrated, affected, and complemented. They not only share the feature of thorough comprehension in artistic conception, but also have the similar composition elements such as rocks, buildings, water, and plants and so forth. Furthermore, both of them apply creative damage and regroup on the elements of landscape to express the author's attitudes toward environment. Studies on the relation of Chinese landscape painting and Chinese historical gardens along with the elucidation of its principle enable the modern landscape architecture designers to well understand how to utilize the resources of Chinese historical gardens in thinking way.This paper starts with the exploitation and utilization of the resources of Chinese historical gardens landscape; systematically investigate the relation between Chinese landscape painting and Chinese historical Gardens along with the studies on the aspects of characters and category using the methods of analogy. Also, their common ground on creation ideas, the author's identity, creation means and creation aim are discussed. For instance, the designers always pre-construct a sketch in their minds, appreciate garden landscape with personal feelings when inditing Chinese landscape painting and Chinese historical Gardens to expect to exchange with the nature. Moreover, Chinese landscape painting and Chinese historical Gardens affect mutually in vital force and vigor. They could be used for reference each other in creation means such as the relationship between the order of the line of sight, dynamic distribution of landscape, portrait and landscape and lyricism etc., and correspond each other for the performance of overlapping mountains and the sense of mountain body, the formation of plant collocation and so on.