Analysis Of The Artistic Characteristics Of Guo’s Villa In The West Lake Of Hangzhou

Guo’s Villa in the West Lake is a model of Hangzhou Mountain-Water garden. According to deeply making a research of Guo’s Villa, we can understand the art features of Hangzhou Mountain-Water gardens.This paper takes Guo’s Villa as the object of stay to discuss the art features and the formation of origin of Guo’s Villa which includes six parts.The first part briefly describes the general situation of Guo’s Villa and clarifies the reasons, significance, status and research methods of this paper.The second part introduces the distribution of Guo’s Villa which is separated into general introduction and the detail of main components.The third part analyzes the garden art of the southern part of Guo’s Villa. This part lucubrates the typical landscape, and finds out the artistic origin of Guo’s Villa from the similarities between Suzhou garden and Hangzhou classical garden with discussing artistic style of meandering courtyards and the conception of window in the southern part of Guo’s Villa.The forth part analyzes the north garden art of Guo’s Villa. According to the building, layout of waters and plant of the garden, this part analyzes North garden’s special bridge and bank scenery, and finds the origin of North garden art from the geographical position and the reason of developing history of the Hangzhou Mountain-Water garden and Shaoxing garden.The fifth part discusses the aesthetic significance of Guo’s Villa. Guo’s Villa reflects Hangzhou Mountain-Water garden’s features and is a typical example and relics of Chinese traditional Jiangnan Gardens.The final conclusion part concludes the artistic characteristics of Guo’s Villa in the West Lake Mountain-Water garden of Hangzhou and put forward own point of view. Guo’s Villa has very high artistic value. The formation of Guo’s Villa which has very deeply cultural connotation is influenced by Suzhou garden, Hangzhou classical gardens, Shaoxing gardens and the West Lake Mountain-Water gardens. Protecting the Guo’s Villa is the inheritance and development to Chinese traditional culture.