A Comparative Study On Chinese And France Classical Garden Arts

This essay applied to the synthetically study approach mainly related to historical comparison and parallel comparison. The author uses it to carry on an overall, deep studying to landscaping style and landscaping elements of Chinese classical garden and French classical garden, which laid particular emphasis on the impact of style of the garden caused by painting art and comparison among landscaping elements, such as plant, architecture, water and mountain stone, etc. The essay analyzes the differences between Chinese classical garden and French classical garden from various aspects such as geographical environment, aesthetic thought, natural view and design philosophy, and etc. Furthermore, looking for their similarities and common points in terms of historical development and aesthetic angle.As regards aesthetic characteristics, the landscaping shape of the French classical garden reflects a kind of architectural beauty basically, while the landscaping shape of the Chinese classical garden mostly reflects a kind of painting beauty. The former indicates the concise, regular geometrical pattern mainly, the latter trends towards the varied and colorful irregular lines. The forming of this basic difference is influenced by different natural views of the two countries. Treating the relationship between human and nature in different ways lead to the totally diversity of the Chinese classical garden and French classical garden in artistic conception, landscaping skills and characteristic style. People often regard French stylistic garden as " green construction", call Chinese stylistic garden " natural drawing". That is indeed the precise condensation of these two landscaping shapes. And analyzing from the cultural background, there are more origins came from the Taoist school thought in " natural drawing", in anther part, most parts of the thinking nutrition of" green construction" come from ancient Greek philosophy.Geographic Environment: flat vs undulateThe most distinguished distinct between Chinese classical garden and French classical garden lies in landform. The surface of the French classical garden is broad smooth, in comparison to it, the surface of the Chinese classical garden is ragged and rough. Geographically, China's western part is high and the eastern part is low; mountains cover the northern-western part, the sea covers the southern-eastern part. Mountains regions, lakes, plateaus and hills form the skelon of the garden structure, which subjects to mountains and lakes. While French classical garden is merely built against mountains, is generally flat garden. This influenced by the geographical condition, which mostly are flat lands I France.Aesthetic Thought: senses vs sensibilityIn western pas, they realize natural beauty through controlling nature and conquering nature. In China, people let things go naturally to realize natural beauty. Looking into the history of western philosophical development, aesthetics is built on the basis of sense. The rational standard of France is different from the sense of the other countries of this text. The most outstanding and distinct sign is its clearness and abstractness. We can call the cultural characteristic of France as the sprit of geometry. In the Chinese philosophy and aesthetic thinking, " having a tacit understanding; seeking an implied meaning" are...