People often say that western painting pays attention to skills, while Chinese painting pays attention to artistic conception. Which is stronger and which is weaker?

Personally, as the most representative painting art forms in the East and the West, Chinese painting and western painting (oil painting) are produced in different cultural soils and historical backgrounds, showing their own distinct characteristics. They have their own characteristics and advantages, which are the crystallization of human wisdom and the treasures of painting art, but they are different in form and have no strong or weak points.

In the development history of thousands of years, Chinese painting has inherited the cultural tradition of China and formed a painting art which integrates painting, calligraphy and poetry. It is a distinctive feature of Chinese painting to express rich and profound themes between "similarity and dissimilarity" and pursue broad and distant artistic conception. So some people say that Chinese painting is the art of pen and ink, and it is the art of freehand brushwork. Chinese painting is written.

Western painting first appeared in ancient Greece and Rome more than 2000 years ago. In the Middle Ages, western paintings were mainly gouache and egg-colored paintings. /kloc-in the 5th century, oil painting was developed in the west. Oil painting has become the main type of painting in the west because of its strong modeling ability, strong color expression and easy preservation. Since the Renaissance, western oil painting has followed the cultural tradition of ancient Greece and Rome, paying attention to the shape and color in painting and pursuing the restoration of the original appearance of objective things. Therefore, western painting is called the art of modeling and color, and it is a realistic art, while western painting is descriptive.

Whether it is Chinese painting or western painting, whether it is freehand brushwork or realism, as two painting arts with a long history and a long history, apart from their profound cultural heritage, paying attention to painting techniques and artistic conception is also an important reason for the endless and long-term development of Chinese painting and western oil painting. Chinese painting pays attention to artistic conception and techniques, which can be seen from Gu Kaizhi's Ode to Luoshen, Wu Daozi's Ghost of Zhong Kui and Zhang Zeduan's Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. It is impossible to draw such a classic painting without superb techniques and skills. At the same time, it also shows that in ancient times 1000 years ago, Chinese painting paid great attention to painting skills and was quite mature. Similarly, western painting emphasizes skill and artistic conception. Isn't the mysterious smile in Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the obscurity in Monet's Sunrise and the surging clouds in Van Gogh's Starry Sky all manifestations of artistic conception?

In short, although Chinese painting and western painting have different painting tools and materials, different painting concepts and different painting forms, they are two flowers, one for each table. However, each has its own laws, advantages, characteristics and smells, which are all technical painting arts.