A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN THEIR TECHNIQUES AND FORMS OF THE TRADITIONAL CHINESE METICULOUS BRUSH PAINTING OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AND THE JAPANESE UKIYO-E PAINTING OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN

The women images in Chinese paintings are called Paintings of Beautiful Ladies while in Japan are Paintings of Beauties. Though there exists slight difference in the name, they fall into the same kind of drawing in their essence. The Japanese Paintings of Beauties were born from the Paintings of Beautiful Ladies in the Dynasty of Tang and have long been influenced and developed by the Chinese artistic style. However, through the buckish appearance, we can still observe the traces of the influences from the Chinese paintings in their internality. This paper, based on all the present materials collected widely, tries to have a comparative study and analysis of the Traditional Chinese Meticulous Brush Painting of Beautiful Women with Meticulous Work and the Japanese Ukiyo-e Painting of Beautiful Women, focusing on the expressive techniques, constituent forms. The whole paper is composed of four parts as follows.