Similarities and differences between ancient China landscape painting and western landscape painting

China's ancient landscape painting is a painting that mainly depicts the natural scenery of mountains and rivers.

Western landscape painting is a painting with scenery as its theme.

2. Different representatives.

The representative figures of ancient landscape painting in China are Zhan Ziqian and Wang Wei.

The representative figures of western landscape painting are Goyan, Recher, constable and so on.

3. The key points of techniques are different.

Landscape painting is from scenery to works, from creation to appreciation. It has the characteristics of being fascinated by the scenery and empathizing with it. Without the author's touch, there would be no reader's experience, taste and feeling. As a landscape painter, we should have the spirit of a tour guide, lead the viewers to browse it together, observe it, enjoy it, cultivate it, and achieve emotional relaxation and spiritual harmony.

The representation of space distance in western landscape painting is based on the perspective principle of form and the perspective change of air color, showing the hierarchical relationship between scenes. You can also use primary and secondary, light and shade, virtual and real to strengthen the sense of space, and consciously combine primary and secondary, virtual and real in expression techniques.

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