The difference between Chinese painting and western painting in western painting

1, Chinese painting lines are full, while western painting lines are not obvious.

Most lines are not original objects, but the realm used by painters to express two objects. For example, in Chinese painting, an egg-shaped line is drawn to represent a person's face. In fact, there are no such lines around people's faces. This line is the dividing line between face and background.

Another example is to draw a ruler line to represent a person's nose. In fact, there is no such line on the nose. This line is the dividing line between nose and face. Another example is landscapes, flowers and so on. There are no lines in the object, but the painter uses lines.

The lines in the mountains and rivers are specially named "travertine". The lines in the characters are specially named "clothes pleats". This is a difficult research work. Western painting only has the boundaries of things, and the boundaries are not drawn.

2. Chinese painting does not pay attention to perspective, while western painting pays attention to perspective.

Perspective is the representation of three-dimensional objects on a plane. Western painting strives to be as simple as the real thing, so it pays great attention to perspective. Look at the streets, houses, furniture, utensils and so on in western paintings. They are all in the right shape and as good as the real thing.

If you describe a corridor, you can show the distance of several feet in inches. If you draw the front of the railway (looking out from the center of the railway), you can show the distance of several miles in a few inches.

Chinese painting, on the other hand, is not willing to draw things with obvious three-dimensional sense, such as streets, houses, furniture, utensils, etc., but is willing to write clouds, mountains, trees, waterfalls and so on that look like natural flat objects from a distance. Occasionally describing house objects, without paying attention to perspective, is arbitrary.

For example, painting scenes deep in the courtyard, curved corridors and new houses, seems to be seen when flying in mid-air; And I haven't seen it for a while, but it's flying up and down. I've seen it several times.

3. Chinese painting figures don't talk about anatomy, while western figure painting attaches great importance to anatomy.

Anatomy is the study of the expression shape of human skeletal muscle. Westerners must learn anatomy before drawing characters. The English name of this anatomy is Anatomy of Art Students, that is, Art Anatomy.

So it's not like a physiological anatomist. Physiological anatomy focuses on the structure and function of various parts of the human body, while artistic anatomy focuses on the form of expression. However, remembering the names of bones and muscles and their various abnormal shapes is a difficult study.

But western painters must learn. Because western painting pays attention to realism, it must be depicted like a real human body. But China figure painters never needed this knowledge.

People in China paint figures only to show the characteristics of their bodies, but they don't talk about the size and proportion of each part of the figure. So the men in Chinese painting look strange, quaint and don't bark.

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