I Subject:Analysing the landscape painting’s musical characters from the common points between a piece of lyre music <Ping sha luo yan> and Baoshi Fu’s <Ping sha luo yan>
Specalty: Fine Arts Name: Yuan Wang Instructor: Baoan Wang Professor
Summary
Is it true that paintings and music have similarities or are they affecting one other? From the scientific point of view, the answer would be ambiguous and not testified. However, through the analysis of the history of music and paintings, there still are some evidences showing that in some situations these two are definitely influencing each other, each being an individual. They both bring people the same beauty but via different passages, one is visual, the other is hearing. In this essay, the first two parts are going to analyze the background and the intensions of the painting <ping sha luo yan> and guqin piece <Ping sha luo yan>. Also in these two parts, the common characters of the two artistic creations will be indicated. The third part in this essay will develop the idea which is whether the similarity of paintings and music are only appearing in the author’s mind or not. The fourth part is going to compare three different pain