Question

what is the difference between the Chinese art and European art according to the chapter landscape of the class 11th

Answer 1

EUROPEAN ART :

The art of Europe, or Western art, encompasses the history of visual artin Europe. European prehistoric artstarted as mobile rock and cavepainting art and was characteristic of the period between the Paleolithic and the Iron Age.


CHINESE ART :

In Chinese paintings, from the very beginning, there has been no concept of realistic space and artists tend to express conceptually with lines. This shows that Chinese artists have long been aware of abstraction in their observations.

Answer 2

There is a marked difference between the Chinese and Western arts. The former is spiritual and shows the way within, towards the spiritual dimensions.  

However, the Western art depicts the world and its phenomena as they are without implying anything. The Western painter creates illusionistic likeness of reality and wants you to look at it through his eyes.