Ming Style Furniture, Renaissance Style Furniture Aesthetic Comparative Study

The Chinese Ming dynasty style furniture and West Renaissance furniture is China and the West furniture culture typical representative.Simultaneously also is China and the West classical furniture culture manifests outstandingly. They were both nearly in the same time, but as a result of geographical environment, national characteristics as well as China and the West culture thought difference, its furniture art and culture unique. The paper research along respective cultural vein, the longitudinal analysis has compared China and the West furniture in the entity and the cultural two stratification plane similarities and differences, The attempt seeks two different regions, different nationality, different culture under the different historical condition and the cultural context, displays completely different furniture culture in esthetic characteristic.Study has mainly applied the comparison research technique. In the entity comparison stratification plane, pointed to aspects and so on furniture variety, modelling, material, decoration, craft and structure launches the comparison, we can get the conclusion: Because of China and the West furniture culture,the natural environment, the life style, the technical level and the cultural idea are different, so form the different entity.In the entity comparison foundation, the paper key from China and the West furniture aspects that in culture religious consciousness, philosophic thinking, esthetic consciousness carries on the cultural stratification plane the thorough comparison, Further proves the cultural thought characteristic which under the different cultural big background transmits.In the religious consciousness, the Ming dynasty style furniture influenced by the China traditional culture, is displayed take the Confucianist thought as the core, the Confucian, releases the aspect which, a mutual influence, seeps mutually. But the Renaissance furniture displays the break religion fetter, by rational thought primarily humanities ideas. In the philosophic thinking, the Ming dynasty style furniture performance appears again in the experience perceptual cultural characteristic, but the Renaissance style manifests has the exploration mental rational cultural connotation. In the esthetic consciousness, the former displays the plain elegant esthetic idea, to intrinsic and the graceful and friendly esthetic interest as well as the transformation personality charm esthetic ideal pursue. The latter displays the splendid gorgeous esthetic idea, the humanism esthetic ideal discussion which as well as clear reveals to the external beauty of form.The furniture culture took the cultural system a part, coexists a body with other cultures, its production, the development receives other cultural surely the influence. The paper has briefly analyzed the influence furniture culture several connection factors.Compares esthetically but through the Ming dynasty style furniture and the Renaissance furniture, summarizes at the same time the different region China and the West two kinds of typical furniture in style characteristic essences and the characteristic, obtains cultural difference and esthetic characteristic which has respectively. But, even if both have the huge difference, actually also has some commons development objective law:In humanity's developing process, along with the time progress, the furniture culture also has certain dynamic, cannot pause in one condition and one kind of process, we should grasp this tendency, keeps pace with the times, the furniture culture can develop considerable.