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What are black and white paintings for?

Paintings, such as black and white decorative paintings, or black and white prints. That is, a picture made of white. Like the traditional paper-cut in China, it can also be red, white, green, blue and white.

A picture in which only one color is black (or white) and the picture only shows black-and-white effect is called a black-and-white picture.

Black-and-white painting is a big concept, which generally refers to any painting drawn in black and white. Including black and white prints, seal patterns, black and white illustrations, sketches, Chinese paintings, Jiao Mo, ink and wash, black and white patterns and black and white decorative paintings. Based on the contrast between black and white, it fully expresses the theme of the picture through the clever combination of black and white, and has highly summarized artistic characteristics. In the eyes of China people, black is real, white is empty, black is everything, and white is ethereal. Black and white are like the mutual infiltration of existence and nothingness, thus creating a vast world with space in reality, reality in the air and mutual existence. Cleverly handle the two extremes of black and white, and concentrate everything in the picture of clever combination of black and white, just like the melody, rhythm and orchestration of music and sound bring people auditory enjoyment. We should be good at grasping the main characteristics of the image and simplify it. As long as the image on the screen is extremely simple, we should strive to achieve the artistic effect of strong contrast between black and white, and flexibly use various forms of expression such as points, lines and planes to make the screen rich in black and white, with layers of reality and reality scattered, proper arrangement of density and blank space, exaggeration, selection and deformation in the image, and try our best to make the picture interesting, rhythmic and rhythmic.