Abstract

In the general impression among the visual arts generally believe that China demonstrated a "cavalier perspective" or "movement perspective", this Western perspective view showing the visual arts, "Focus Lens" or "gone-point perspective" back to their different interest. The authors believe that this is not only a visual representation of the problem on the creative techniques, and more deeply rooted in Western art belongs to the cultural level, this effect I believe that Western philosophy from the "world view" , so comparison of the universe become the starting point of this article. This paper attempts a comparison through the universe, to explore the impact of Chinese and Western visual arts point of view, to explain the universe that affect the theoretical basis of perspective, and in fact the operation of perspective is the concrete application of this theory. It is assumed that the cavalier perspective expressed in Chinese visual arts contrasts with the linear perspective of Western visual arts. The writer believes that such a visual expression is not merely a question if creative skills but also a consequence of Chinese and Western arts at the cultural level, which is what the writer calls "Weltanschauung." Therefore this paper begins with the comparisons of Weltanschauungs, through which we try to explore the views that have made effects on Chinese and Western visual arts and demonstrate how Weltanschauung is the theoretical foundation of the perspective and the operation of the latter is the application of the former