What's the difference between the composition of Chinese and western paintings?

From the perspective of composition, the composition of Chinese painting generally does not follow the Huang Jinlv of western painting, and the ratio of length to width in the image is often "unbalanced", because Chinese painting has always attached importance to expressing the artistic conception of the picture, and its grasp of composition is often insufficient.

At the same time, Chinese painting and western painting are different in perspective. Perspective is to show all the objects correctly on the plane when painting, so that they have a sense of space and three-dimensional sense. Western paintings often adopt the focus perspective method, just like photography, which is fixed at a point. What is photographed in the frame can be shown, but what is not photographed cannot be shown on the screen.

Chinese painting is not necessarily fixed on a foothold, nor is it limited by a fixed horizon. It can move its foothold to paint according to the painter's feelings and needs, and absorb all visible and invisible scenes into its own picture. This perspective is called scatter perspective or multipoint perspective. As we all know, the famous paintings in the Northern Song Dynasty and Zhang Zeduan's The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival all adopt scattered perspective.

China is very particular about using pen and ink. China's paintings are very particular about when to emphasize, when to ignore, when to be sick, when to be slow, when to stumble, when to turn, when to fold, when to be square and when to be round. In order to prepare and use the pen smoothly, it is very important to have painting training and experience accumulation at ordinary times, which can not be fully mastered in a short time.