Shanshui Painting Analysis

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My thesis is to translate traditional painting into architecture by the view method of Shanshui painting which show the logic of Chinese architecture. With the several decades of development, China is changing to an international country by belittle our only culture and follow the western. In architecture, people dismantle traditional buildings and built many huge, modern blocks instead. What is Chinese architecture? Chinese architecture is not only Is it the big roof Which out the philosophy of … we cannot defined the (见书) That is why the Grauman’s Chinese Theater use many elements of Chinese architecture but can’t representative Chinese architecture at all. Shanshui painting is a material that shows the dream of space for people to live and wander which is To understand the inside logic of Chinese architecture First, learn the rules from nature. This logic is clearly showed by Shanshui painting and Yuanlin . If architecture is a fiction of human living space, this kind of fiction is in company with rocks and trees. They share the same “natural form”, which is not necessarily based on Euclid’s geometry, and the buildings don't have to be either square or round. In Yuanlin, architecture rather than natural objects dominate the landscape. Yuanlin is not the copy of the pure nature but the reflection of inner world and the …show more content…

In Shanshui painting, the view method is different from perspective. Shanshui painting is not like the photograph which audiences stand in front of it and watch it as the only view of the author. Shanshui is a picture that including scenes with different time, space and views which can be understand only come inside. It gives an experience that layers by layers, without climax, start and end, which happened on Yuanlin too. Use this view method of Shanshui on space and record the relative spatial position, the architecture will develop just like it. The view method becomes the design

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