What is the difference between ancient Chinese paintings and contemporary oil paintings?

Traditional Chinese painting is ink painting, which is done on silk or paper with a brush dipped in water, ink and color.

Oil painting, on the other hand, is made with fast-drying vegetable oils (linseed oil, poppy oil, walnut oil, etc.) mixed with pigments on canvas linen, cardboard or wood panels.

The two are different in the materials used.

Traditional Chinese paintings thrive on lines, focus on the mood, not on the background, and the subject matter is mainly natural.

And oil painting, painting lines are not significant, focus on perspective, very heavy anatomy, very heavy background, subject matter is mainly figures.

The two are different in artistic expression and artistic concept.

Simply put, it means that Chinese painting focuses on writing, does not necessarily have to be painted like the original, and often leaves white space.

While oil painting, attaches great importance to the sense of picture, many are very realistic works, color is also richer than the Chinese painting, colorful.