On the Relationship Between Poetry and Painting from the Perspective of Chinese and Western Culture

Abstract

The relationship between poetry and painting has always been a hot trend in the history of Chinese and Western aesthetics. The representative theoretical system of poetry and painting in the West is Lessing’s “poetry-painting heterogeneity”, while China’s cognition focuses on “poetry-painting uniformity” and “poetry-painting homogeneity”. Poetry is the art of time and painting is the art of space. Because of their differences in media and other factors, they share some similarities in terms of their specialties. At the same time, due to the various aesthetic concepts between China and the West, their theories of poetry and painting are also different. In addition to exploring the boundary between poetry and painting from the perspective of media, this paper probes into the Chinese and Western poetry-painting relationship based on aesthetic concepts, explores the cultural characteristics of our nation, and absorbs foreign cultures with an inclusive attitude, thus providing a humble opinion for the study of art history.