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The distinction between artistic subjects in the west and the east, particularly in the realm of visual arts, has been quite obvious and noticeable from early times and connoisseurs and art critics have written and talked much about it. But today it seems that these distances and differences have replaced their positions with artistic interactions and have come closer to each other (in the fields of themes, materials, and even instruments) due to the expansion and development of communications. This article, in fact, includes the similarities and differences, based upon comparative studies, between the works of the contemporary English sculptor, Antony Gormley, and the background of Chinese ancient civilization.it is important to know that Comparative Arts, studies the relations between one or several media of arts in different or the same period of time and it could lead us to valuable achievements. In addition, with comparative analysis between the modes of visual, literary, and aura representation, different aspects of artistic theories are investigated . The concentration analyzes the principal forms and genres of the visual, literary, and aural elements in various cultural disciplines, providing and understanding for human creativity and expression. Comparative Arts explores the dynamic interaction between literature, visual art, music, theater, film, and digital art. A wide-ranging field of inquiry open to all literary and artistic traditions, comparative arts is limited neither by national boundaries nor by class_ indeed, popular art is as welcome as the “unpopular,” loftier sort. Through comparison of different forms of creative expressions, the field asks the most fundamental questions about the arts, ranging from theories of specific forms of media to the Zeitgeist of an entire culture or period. According to this aim, we tried to have a comparative look on Gormley’s two works: “Asian Field” and “Human Cube”, and a type of ancient Chinese sculpture (including The Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin and the Burial Suit of Hun Emperor). The Terracotta Army or the "Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses", is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Shi Huangdi, the First Emperor of China. The figures, dating from 210 BC, were discovered in 1974 by some local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, near the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor. A Jade burial suit, is a ceremonial suit made of pieces of jade in which royal members in Han Dynasty China were buried, as the Chinese believed that jade had magical properties and would prevent the decay of the body. Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is an English sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in the North of England, commissioned in 1995 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, and in 2010 around Madison Square in New York City. After studying and examining these two works and their visual relations, backgrounds and other criteria, in the end it seems as if Gormley has been inspired by far-east culture especially ancient Chinese civilization, which this writing explains it more.
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