Although not in the same era,the"push theory"put forward by the Qing Dynasty landscape painter Hua Lin and American abstract expressionist painter Hans Hofmann's theory of push and pull,both emphasized the momentum of"push"which aims to form a sense of depth or"distance"on the pictorial sur-face,so that they are quite similar to each other.By comparing the similarities between the two theories in terms of background,connotation,pictorial realization,and influence,we emphasize the preciousness of the"push th...
