Sit and Watch Clouds Rising -- Exploring Western Painting and Chinese Painting “The Town in the Mountains” “Clouds”

[[abstract]]Summary: Ever since the eastern and western cultures encountered, the exploration and elaboration about eastern and western painting on space have never been stopped. Aside from the content of painting, in view of the angles that pictures constitute ,we can say the development process of painting is the history of visual space development. Through the space of painting conveys not only the artist’s personal statement, but also the whole generation’s way of thinking and process of evolution. This article applies the image of “mountains” and “clouds”, the notion of “space” to explore the development of painting. Trace back to the change of space concepts of eastern and western fine arts, trying to mix and displaying them in the creation of paintings. Mainly use the traditional Chinese universal view and philosophy to express the Chinese painting’s space notion. This national characteristic of space notion displayed in the way of the unique Chinese landscape painting. To urge the spiritual image by adopting the mental power, and expand the space notion incessantly, which had laid a solid foundation and had a style of its own. Chinese landscape paintings space awareness of “infinite universe, abundant resource” makes a totally different from that of the western painting. Applying “mountains & forests” “clouds”, “city”, “dark nights” and ‘light” as ingredients to describe self-reflection, create an atmosphere of endless darkness, a kind of forceful panic which force us to judge between truth and vanity .By means of silent self-reflection , to reach the purpose of purifying mind. An attempt of interchangeably applying :‘emptiness’; existence, “ ground” and “figure”, arranging position, influencing the whole atmosphere of the painting, using crayon instead of ink, producing blue and green impression, displaying endless, immense, infinite world.