Playfulness and Artistry: A Comparative Study of Eastern 
and Western Aesthetic Spirit in the Bapo Painting and 
Exquisite Corpses

Zhulin Chang

doi:10.70711/rcha.v2i11.5997

Playfulness and Artistry: A Comparative Study of Eastern and Western Aesthetic Spirit in the Bapo Painting and Exquisite Corpses

Zhulin Chang

Abstract

The Bapo painting, which originated in the Chinese literati class in the Yuan dynasty(A.D. 1279-1368), and Exquisite Corpse,
a collective game created by a group of French artists in 1918, attributed to the different aesthetic and cultural origins, yet meet at identical
artistic matters in terms of playfulness and artistry. Creative and synthetical techniques as well as the radical principles showcased in the
Bapo painting which is unique in certain period of China, but rarely mentioned in the history of Chinese painting. Exquisite Corpse in the
contrary grows to the influential artistic movement in Western art history that inspired surrealism and a series of artistic waves. This research aims to compare the aesthetic spirit of the two art forms through literature analysis and case studies and discover the aesthetic value
and characteristics shared in Eastern and Western art practices, eventually breaking the theoretical basis and the boundary between the East
and West aesthetical cognition.

Keywords

Exquisite Corpse; Bapo painting; Aesthetic spirit; Eastern and western art

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.70711/rcha.v2i11.5997

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