Art is ag form of language that everybody can communicate and transfer information through it. It is always controversial to assign a definition to art. The definition of art may varies based on different time periods and cultures. As art grow and develop through time due to interactions between different cultures and artists its definition also changes. On this paper, we are not going to see the definition of art but we will cover how non-western arts influence western-arts and we will compare Zhang Daqian’s “Lotus China” from non-western art and Ernest L. Blumenschein’s “Mountain Lake” from western art.
Zhang Daqian also called Chang Dai-chien is a Chinese artist who lived between years 1899–1983. He was born in May 10/1899 in Sichuan, …show more content…
Blumenschein painted the lake five times on different viewpoint and added different elements and figures incorporated in it. In two of his paintings he incorporated his 1924 Ford automotive and a group of fisherman’s but in the one that found on the Denver Art Museum, he painted the lake and the landscape surrounding the lake with ducks flying around and landing on it. Based on the aerial view, we can say that he painted it from one of the higher mountains surrounding the lake. Movement of V-shaped ducks gives this painting a 2D characteristics of the painting.3 The blue water and the white bluish sky together with the yellow and green plants surrounding the lake it indicates the painting painted during the summer …show more content…
Even though both loves to paint the nature, as these artistes are from different parts of the world they use different techniques to paint this master pieces. When we see the type of materials they used, Chang uses ink and color on paper whereas Ernest uses oil paint on canvas. Different types of principles of design are highlighted on both works. In Earnest’s Mountain lake, there is a unity of combination of colors that he painted green and orange colors for the plants on the mountains and blue for the lake, there is also a unity on the pattern of movement of the water that looks the water wave is moving towards the painter which also indicates the direction of the wind is towards the views or the painter. There is a variety on the size of the surrounding mountains and the type of plants surrounding the lake. In Chang’s Lotus China work there is a unity of black lotus flowers on the left corner and gray lotus flowers next to it. The color combination gives the painting a feeling of winter or night time view with shadows of the flowers. The two dimensionalities of the Mountain lake, the surrounding mountains and beautiful plants emphasize the lake and gives the painting more details and beautiful view. But in the case of Lotus China, there is a unity in color pattern that is dominated by a gray lotus flower on the center and towards the upper left corner and black on the lower left corner of the bottom.
Zhang Daqian also called Chang Dai-chien is a Chinese artist who lived between years 1899–1983. He was born in May 10/1899 in Sichuan, …show more content…
Blumenschein painted the lake five times on different viewpoint and added different elements and figures incorporated in it. In two of his paintings he incorporated his 1924 Ford automotive and a group of fisherman’s but in the one that found on the Denver Art Museum, he painted the lake and the landscape surrounding the lake with ducks flying around and landing on it. Based on the aerial view, we can say that he painted it from one of the higher mountains surrounding the lake. Movement of V-shaped ducks gives this painting a 2D characteristics of the painting.3 The blue water and the white bluish sky together with the yellow and green plants surrounding the lake it indicates the painting painted during the summer …show more content…
Even though both loves to paint the nature, as these artistes are from different parts of the world they use different techniques to paint this master pieces. When we see the type of materials they used, Chang uses ink and color on paper whereas Ernest uses oil paint on canvas. Different types of principles of design are highlighted on both works. In Earnest’s Mountain lake, there is a unity of combination of colors that he painted green and orange colors for the plants on the mountains and blue for the lake, there is also a unity on the pattern of movement of the water that looks the water wave is moving towards the painter which also indicates the direction of the wind is towards the views or the painter. There is a variety on the size of the surrounding mountains and the type of plants surrounding the lake. In Chang’s Lotus China work there is a unity of black lotus flowers on the left corner and gray lotus flowers next to it. The color combination gives the painting a feeling of winter or night time view with shadows of the flowers. The two dimensionalities of the Mountain lake, the surrounding mountains and beautiful plants emphasize the lake and gives the painting more details and beautiful view. But in the case of Lotus China, there is a unity in color pattern that is dominated by a gray lotus flower on the center and towards the upper left corner and black on the lower left corner of the bottom.