Compare the similarities and differences between Chinese and western painting lines

There are many differences between Chinese and western painting art, which are manifested in the creative means: China is a continuation of imitation, while the West begins to imitate from sketch. Postponement imitation is an image modeling based on lines, while sketch imitation of western art is a realistic modeling based on blocks. As a modeling method in Chinese and western painting, "line" serves the purpose of modeling, but different cultural and psychological structures and aesthetic artistic conception determine the different forms of using line. Therefore, there are many differences in the use of "line" between Chinese and western paintings.

First of all, lines in western painting

The western way of life pays attention to natural science and is good at understanding the world with rational thinking. Therefore, western art advocates natural and objective truth and requires art forms to accurately reproduce objective things. Leonardo da Vinci said, "Visibility is certainty." Western painting uses scientific observation methods. Since the Renaissance, western painting has deeply studied light and shadow, perspective and anatomy. It is an art that integrates face, body, light and color, and "line" is an auxiliary means of expression.

In ancient Greece and Rome, paintings and sculptures were famous for accurately and truly imitating reality, and the use of lines was represented by bottle paintings at that time. Mosaic murals of Byzantine mosaics in the Middle Ages were deeply influenced by Arab Islamic culture. The representative works are two frescoes commemorating Justinian the Great and Queen odola in San Vital Church in ravenna. The composition and modeling of murals use symbolic and decorative techniques, highlighting the role and rhythm of the midline in painting. The main role of the line here is contour modeling.

/kloc-In the 5th century, painting was influenced by humanism. The Birth of Venus by Italian painter Botticelli highlights the characteristics of graphic design and decoration. The characterization lines are clear, full of poetry and painting, and pay attention to the application of various forms of expression in network expression.

16th century was the heyday of the Western Renaissance, and a number of paintings with distinctive line drawing features appeared. The most prominent is the German printmaker Diu Lei, whose masterpiece is Revelation. He applied western realistic painting techniques to printmaking. The picture is composed of rigorous and neat lines, which clearly shows the three-dimensional light and shade and spatial hierarchy. The scene is complex and the characters are delicate. Here, "line" is the basic element used to form the tone of sketch, and it does not play a substantive role alone.

As far as means are concerned, the German painter holbein is outstanding in line modeling. His portrait sketch lines are exquisite and vivid, and his techniques are very close to those of Chinese painting. The lines of the masterpiece "Portrait of a Young Woman" are simple and smooth, with almost no shadow. Through the change of lines, the figure's volume and flesh-and-blood texture are expressed, and the character, clothing, appearance and psychological characteristics of the figure are accurately portrayed. Through the lines, the painter can see the shape of the characters.

Corroded copperplate prints appeared in the17th century, and Rembrandt in the Netherlands was an outstanding writer and great pioneer of corroded copperplate prints. He used a needle or a sharp knife as a brush to carve lines on a metal plate coated with paint or wax mixture, and then put it into an acidic solution for corrosion. The copperplate prints show dots and lines with different thicknesses, creating rich tones and producing an effect similar to sketch, pen-and-ink painting. Among them, the use of lines is very natural and flexible, which plays a very good role in depicting objects.

After the 17th century, neoclassicism appeared. Angel, a representative painter, has made in-depth research on line modeling in painting. His sketch lines are smooth and accurate, which is very similar to the line features of China's "line drawing" painting, and it is a beautiful and rigorous artistic style.

The appearance of Impressionism ushered in a new era in the history of western painting, marking the arrival of real diversification of plastic arts. Rodin, a French sculptor, emphasizes the simplicity of the whole and expresses emotions with lines in his sculptures and sketches, and his artistic style is unique. In the later period of Impressionism, many painters accepted the essence of oriental art, and combined with line modeling, the language of western plastic arts changed. Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne changed the traditional realistic line modeling method in western painting, and expressed their feelings more with subjective lines, colors and surfaces. Van Gogh was extremely serious and persistent in painting. He uses different lines and strong colors to express his truest inner feelings. He pays attention to using a pen, and his lines are turbulent, crazy and passionate. Although the line he used is still attached to the form, it obviously has a relatively independent performance function, similar to the painting method in China's landscape painting and close to China's freehand brushwork style.

In the 20th century, a large number of artistic schools appeared in western painting, and artists used all available painting modeling methods such as colors and lines more freely to create colorful artistic features. Showed different personal styles of line plastic arts. For example, the founders of abstract painting, Russian Kandinsky and Dutch mondriaan, are good at grasping and using the method of lines, and have created a large number of abstract paintings representing the spirit of the times.

It should be said that the "line" in western painting always serves the purpose of modeling and belongs to a secondary position in realistic painting methods. Let's analyze the plastic arts style of China's line drawing.

Second, the use of the middle line in China's paintings.

China's painting is an art that attaches importance to images, and image modeling is the main feature of China's painting art. In the form of line modeling, it fully shows the charm and charm of China's paintings, and also embodies the core spirit of China's aesthetics.

The line modeling of Chinese painting is a highly refined and profound modeling form, which can best reflect the image characteristics. In the Catalogue of Ancient Paintings, Sheikh of Southern Qi Dynasty summed up the "bone pen" and put the application of "line" into theory for the first time. He emphasized the role of "line" in painting modeling and put forward that the line in Chinese painting is the expression of the painter's subjective consciousness in painting.

The process of line modeling in Chinese painting is an aesthetic activity process, which emphasizes the emotional blending between the painter and objective things and nature. The line between "similarity and dissimilarity" constitutes a unique effect and artistic conception. Therefore, the highest realm of line modeling is "harmony between man and nature", and the painter found the best point of harmony between man and nature in the process of using lines, so that the meaning and pen, emotion and scenery can be integrated into one, and the picturesque effect can be achieved.