Seiko Yan Ya And Subtle Kitsch

Qiu Ying is a representative artist of"Wu Men School"in China's medium-term of Ming Dynasty. His Belle Paintings of court ladies are the paintings with meticulous detail, which is elegant and colorful. Suzuki Harunobu is a Ukiyo-e artist of Japanese Edo Era. In his Belle Paintings, the beautiful ladies are light in posture and poetic in attitude, which contains the style of Chinese Belle Paintings in Ming Dynasty. Ukiyo-e paintings followed the traditional painted beauties of China's Tang Dynasty and Japanese Yamato-e paintings, born out of traditional Chinese Paintings,drawing into their local languages, and finally became Japan's"national essence".In this article, I did a comparative research of their Belle Paintings, analyzing the reasons of differences and the similarities between them, traversing how Qiu Ying's Belle Paintings influenced Suzuki Harunobu at the same level, arising their respective impact to future generations at different levels. In the end, I summed up their respective pros and cons in Belle Paintings, trying to dig the deeper cultural and artistic meanings of their Belle Paintings.