Contrast the Chinese view of art with European view with examples.
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Chinese:
Chinese art is viewed as the most oldest form of art. Its art is visual art, whether ancient or modern, its originated mainly from China.
This form of art is originated and practiced in China.
Chinese art is inspired from its culture and from the origins of its culture, its heritage. Its mostly consists of simple pottery and sculptures in the start.
Its distinct from other art because its marked by an unusual degree of continuity within, and consciousness of, that tradition, lacking an equivalent to the Western collapse and gradual recovery of classical styles.
It includes examples like, Renaissance decorative arts.
European art:
Also known as the Western art, the European view of art is also visual.
It existed in the European prehistoric time when its art started as mobile rock and cave painting art later it was one of the characteristic of the period between the Paleolithic and the Iron Age.
It starts from Ancient Middle East and the Ancient Aegean civilizations.
Its art was inspired from significant events, expressed in forms of carvings, decorated artifacts and huge standing stones.
It showcased a consistent pattern of artistic development within Europe later to be known as the art of Ancient Greece which was later adopted and transformed by Rome and carried throughout Europe.
It wasn't as influential in the Medieval period, however it became popular again, in the Renaissance era, and existed till neo-classism time.
European art got influenced the Church, the commissions of the Church, architectural, painterly and sculptural, providing the major source of work for artists, heroes and heroines, tales of mythological gods and goddesses, great wars, and bizarre creatures which were not connected to religion and legends as well.
Example: Later its ideology was influenced by political issues, whether reflecting the concerns of patrons or the artist.