China's Education system compared to the USA

no_name said:

Lack of (or difference in) perspective seems to be the case with some of the technical drawings too, giving a somewhat uncommon view.

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It certainly made a mockery on this opinion, expressed in the link provided by default user

".....This is a question that is still open, though present evidence seems to favour the view that the Chinese artists were content to take the methods handed down to them without worrying much about the solution of problems of projection, which belong more properly, perhaps, to architects, mechanics and scientists. And in general this conformity to custom has not been exclusively the characteristic of the Chinese artist......."

As for landscape and street scenes I feel the perspective chosen is an effort to present a panorama view of the scenes.
Also perhapse they feel that lightning/shadows is somewhat arbitrary dependent on many factor so simply don't include them or just assume the object is illuminated equally from all direction to represent what they feel is the most objective representation of the object itself

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yup why worry its art for arts sake. Leave science out of it, seems to be the asian reasoning. That's according to article in the link I mentioned previously.

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bladerunner said:

No it doesn't in fact none of them do.Kyanges gives the reasons to which Ill add to.

Some of the pictures have no or a flat background eg the flowers and that tree thingy

The figures appear to be floating

No Cast shadow

Some of the background buildings and figures are the samesize as the foreground figures

Lack of Vanishing point or a Horizon line in other words they lack Alberti's sense of perspective
(Alberti was regarded as the originator of perspective drawing in European art)

As Kayanges said the subject is the essence rather than what the eye really sees and perhaps this still applies in Asian thinking in the arts, general study?

Well what ever the reason is, it must have been pretty powerful for no pre European contact Asian in thousands oy years to thinkarggghhh to heck with it Im gonna paint what my eye really sees.

Just something slightly different

From what Ive seen in Asian paintings, the more important the figure in the painting /drawing the larger it is compared to the people around him/her. For instance in paintings of Mao in groups of people he appears sligtly larger, and compare that with paintings of say George Washington where there isn't really anything to make him standout from his fellow revolutionists.

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