Taoism Traditions in the Artistic Culture of China

In this article the author examines the influence of Taoism on the artistic culture of China, in particular, \non the national art. The subject of the research is the interpretation of images of Chinese painting by \nthe Taoist cultural tradition. \nThe study confirmed that in accordance with the Taoist tradition, the Chinese artist looked at life from \nthe perspective of art, never painted from nature and never made sketches, while it is conventional \nin European painting. Before painting pictures, the Chinese artist, like a naturalist, carefully and \npainstakingly studied nature in all its smallest forms. \nIn their works, Chinese artists were always guided by the idea of the dynamic unity of opposites that \ncomplemented each other and, thus, needed each other. The artist was not a classicist or a romantic, \nhe was both. The paintings were neither naturalistic nor idealistic, they combined these qualities. The \nstyle of Chinese artists involved a combination of the general and the individual. This was the way due \nto which Chinese artists found “the inner reality” in their paintings

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · China · Chinese culture · Sociology · Taoism · Chinese history and philosophy · History