A Study Of Chinese Elements In Western Decorative Painting At The End Of Nineteenth Century And Early Twentieth Century

Eastern and Western painting is a different cultural and artistic system,the eastern countries pay more attention to the expression of emotion,the Western focus on the expression of real objects and objective truth.At the end of nineteenth Century and the beginning of the twentieth Century,it was faced with the artistic innovation.The artists needed to change the traditional way of painting.During this period the RETRO art and Oriental countries especially Chinese influence,western artists began to pay attention to Chinese painting taste,had to move closer to the Chinese art form and to convey the ideological trend of Western decorative painting largely.This paper attempts to understand the artistic convergence and integration of the period by comparing two different forms of painting.The European painting history at the end of nineteenth Century and early twentieth Century is a period of artistic exploration,need to innovate the old traditional painting and shouldering the mission to create new forms of art,is also a national art element integration period,the artist to absorb foreign culture and to reform and innovation.The people of art during this period changes in the attitude of doubt and vision,whether it is Van Gogh,Matisse,Gauguin,Picasso and the new art movement Beardsley,Alphonse·Mucha or American painter Mark Tobey,their paintings and how many are China want art form similar expression.Especially during this period of "secession" artist Klimt works of art are influenced by China elements and widely absorbed with their art to create,change of style into China charm strong symbol of decorative art,especially his later female portrait painting.Through these works,we can see that Klimt absorbs Chinese elements and applies them to his own painting language,which has a strong decorative meaning and the characteristics of sexy and gorgeous.Through the form of art language elements China review of Western decorative painting in the shape,composition and color,with works embodies the secession"to master the art of this period" in the specific Chinese elements confirm the art language form.