The basic aesthetic characteristics of garden art should be analyzed from Chinese and western aspects respectively;

1. China Garden Art:

It does not simply depict nature, but integrates people's aesthetic interests and ideals in the selection and processing of nature, and promotes natural beauty to artistic beauty. Poetry into landscape is a unique way to create artistic conception in China gardens. Therefore, the pursuit of harmony and unity of natural beauty and artistic conception beauty is the core idea of China's garden aesthetics. Ji Cheng's gardening theory not only emphasizes objective natural conditions, but also emphasizes exquisite subjective design. It not only talks about choosing scenery, making scenery and borrowing scenery, but also talks about feeling and touching scenery in the scenery; It not only emphasizes the interest of nature, but also advocates the fun of roaming. The so-called "borrowing scenery for no reason, touching the scenery", "being amused by things, longing for it" and "touching the scenery" are all incisive summaries of the creation of artistic conception beauty in gardens and its unified relationship with natural beauty.

2. Western garden art:

The eternal aesthetic pursuit of western artists. This is especially true in the creation of garden art. Hegel pointed out in Aesthetics that western gardens arrange natural things in an orderly, unified and balanced way. In other words, we should use the law of formal beauty to transform natural things, with the aim of creating formal beauty in gardens. He said: "The most thorough application of architectural principles to garden art is French gardens. As usual, they are near the tall palace. Trees are planted in neat rows to form a boulevard, which is neatly trimmed, and the fence is also made of neatly trimmed fences. In this way, large self-opening valves are pulled together to help spread and explode and transform them into an open-air mansion. " This is a typical result of the combination of artificial beauty and formal beauty.

3. In short, from the aesthetic point of view, the essential feature of western garden art is the combination of artificial beauty and formal beauty; The essential feature and essence of China's garden art lies in the unity of natural beauty and artistic conception beauty.