What is the difference between Chinese painting and Western painting?

Chinese painting and Western painting are essentially the same, both for the pursuit of aesthetics, the embodiment of the human spirit and enjoyment, etc. However, due to the different historical and cultural backgrounds of China and the West, there is still a big difference between Chinese and Western painting ideas. However, due to the different historical and cultural backgrounds of China and the West, there is still a big difference between Chinese and Western painting ideas and other aspects. What is the difference between Chinese painting and Western painting?

1, the difference between Chinese and Western painting ideas. Chinese and Western painting in the development process, due to different politics, cultural thought, religious philosophy, tools and materials, aesthetic interest and other factors, so that the Chinese and Western painting there is this obvious difference. A simple generalization is that Western painting emphasizes realism, while Chinese painting emphasizes mood. Another main characteristic of Chinese painting is the use of lines to shape. The role of line goes far beyond the requirements of shaping the form, and becomes an important means of expressing the author's thoughts and feelings. Western painters also use lines to shape the image, but they focus more on the expression of the image of texture, volume, sense of space.

2, painting tools and materials are different. Chinese painting often use Chinese special brush, ink or pigment, painting on rice paper or silk. Chinese painting using hooks, strings, points and other brushes of different techniques, is the Chinese paintings show endless changes in the line interest; and ink instead of color, so that the ink color produces rich and subtle changes in chromaticity, that is, "the ink is divided into five colors". European traditional oil painting is painted with oil pigments on canvas, wood or thick cardboard, which is characterized by rich, bright colors, strong coverage, and can fully express the texture of the object, so that the painting object appears realistic and credible, with a strong artistic expression.

3, modeling language is different. Chinese painting is modeled by lines, and the lines are full of movement and rhythmic beauty. Focus on the ink in the spatial treatment of different times, different angles of observation of the object to obtain an organic combination of image characteristics. While the European traditional oil painting with dark and light color as a means of modeling, three-dimensional sense of strong, strong sense of light, strong sense of texture. Oil painting objectivity, observation of detailed table accurate, give a person a strong sense of really. The West is a fixed-point sketching according to the focal point perspective method of depiction of the object seen, favoring the portrayal of the object and the construction of the body of the picture. The use of color changes, contrasts, near big and far small focus perspective, in two-dimensional space to produce three-dimensional illusion of reality.

4. Different tendencies of aesthetic value. In terms of aesthetic tendency, classical Chinese painting attaches more importance to the inner spirit of the object and the expression of the author's subjective emotions. Chinese painting still want, in the performance, heavy emotion, classical Chinese painting is rooted in the basic philosophy of the Chinese nation, that is, the cosmology of the I Ching. The "unity of heaven and mankind" is the highest state of its pursuit. Gu Kaizhi's "Theory of Transmitting the Divine" has made Chinese painting centered on "God" from the very beginning, while "form" is a means to express "God". Form was used as a means to express "God". It is not easy for "form to convey God" to become the key meaning of Chinese painting. In European traditional oil painting, more importance is attached to the realistic reproduction of the shape of the object. European traditional oil painting is still shape, European traditional oil painting reproduction, heavy rationality. European traditional oil painting is rooted in the artistic concept of "imitating nature" and "harmonious form", and its origin lies in the sculpture and architecture of ancient Greece. Its cosmic point of view is still "man and object", "mind in the realm" of the opposing views. In short, the two kinds of paintings are dominated by two concepts.

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