Characteristics of Western painting?

Western art emphasizes objectivity, and Western painting emphasizes resemblance. Western painting emphasizes the use of color, typical of Raphael's "Academy of Athens", which is the most essential difference between Western painting and Chinese painting.

In the view of the modernists, who were devoted to the pursuit of pure art, traditional painting had too many "non-artistic impurities". In fact, traditional Western painting is not unartistic, but it is artistic while taking into account many non-artistic aspects. This is probably what distinguishes traditional painting from modernist painting.

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Development

1. Due to the war and natural causes, there is no pure Greek painting left, the only material from the "Greek bottle painting", two pursuits of Greek art, one is true reproduction, the other is elegant and harmonious. And the knowledge of Roman painting comes mainly from the ancient city of Pompeii. --Western Painting

2. Italy is the center of the Renaissance, 14-15th century early painters such as Giotto, Masaccio, etc., humanistic ideas and realistic depiction of nature combined, although there are still traces of dull rigidity, but showed a different style of realism with the Middle Ages.

Toward the end of the 15th century and into the middle of the 16th century, painters again real and elegant to achieve agreement, with Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raffaele "three masters of the heyday".

3. Modernism emphasizes the expression of subjective emotions, the purity of art and the value of the language of painting itself, they rejected the utilitarian, descriptive and reproducible factors, they believe that the most important thing is to organize the structure of the picture, to express the inner feelings, and to create a mysterious dream world.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Western Painting