The Influence of Chinese Painting

中国画的影响

The independent Chinese traditional art of painting had drawn¹ increasing interest from the foreign art critics, who were beginning to study the Chinese classic art—viewing it for the first time as a unique school of theOriental fine arts. This was an important development, because until then, there were only three schools of Oriental fine arts, namely, Egyptian-Arab fine arts, fine arts of the Indian sub-continent and finally, Japanese fine arts, which had been popular in the West since the middle of the nineteenth century. The rediscovery of the Chinese fine arts led the Western art and cultural circles to recognize the existence of a new world in Oriental art. As a result, study of Chinese fine arts became a favourable² subject for the Western art and academic circles.

外国艺术评论家对独立的中国传统绘画艺术的兴趣越来越浓厚了,他们通过观看独特的东方艺术学校，开始研究中国古典艺术。这是一个重要的发展，因为在此之前，只有三所东方美术学校，即埃及阿拉伯美术学院，印度次大陆美术学院，还有日本美术学院，在19世纪中叶它在西方已经流行。中国美术的重新发现让西方艺术和文化界承认东方艺术新世界的存在。其结果是，学习中国美术研究在西方艺术和学术界变得流行。