The difference between Chinese painting and oil painting

On the pigment itself: oil painting is oil pigment, mixing color with oil, Chinese painting uses ink, or Chinese pigment (including mineral pigment and vegetable pigment)

On the quality of the painting: oil painting is painted on linen and other fabrics, while Chinese painting uses rice paper

On the style of the painting: the color of the oil painting is covered many times and is generally thicker, with abstraction, figurative and impressionistic; in Chinese painting, some of the painting has a white space, and some of them have inscriptions, and most of them are not realistic. pay attention to the mood, mostly not realistic.

Framing: oil paintings have frames, no glass lenses; Chinese paintings have glass frames, some are scrolls, no frames, no lenses, can be rolled up, easy to carry

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The emergence of oil painting

Egg tempera was the precursor to oil painting in European painting until the 15th century. While using tempera, many painters continued to search for a more desirable blend. The Netherlandish painters Jan van Eyck and his brothers are generally recognized as the founders of the technique in the early 15th century.

They used linseed oil and walnut oil as the mixing agent for painting on the basis of the previous attempts to dissolve pigments in oil, resulting in smooth strokes and moderate drying time of the pigments on the screen, which made it easy to cover and modify the painting process many times to form rich color layers and gloss, and the pigments adhered to the paint strongly after drying, and were not easy to peel off and fade.

They used the new oil painting materials to create their works, which were very influential in the painting world at that time. The technique was soon spread to other countries in Western Europe, and especially in Venice, Italy, where it developed rapidly.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia -Oil Painting, Chinese Painting