What's the difference between Chinese painting and western painting?

Chinese painting and western painting are essentially the same, both of which are the pursuit of aesthetics and the embodiment and enjoyment of humanistic spirit. However, due to the different historical and cultural backgrounds between China and the West, there are still great differences and differences in painting ideas between China and the West. Chinese painting is characterized by its ancient rhyme connotation, so that people can feel its broadness and charm by being in it; Western painting, on the other hand, gives people a strong visual enjoyment of color with its true and heavy picture sense.

1. Chinese painting Chinese painting takes brush, ink, mineral pigment, silk and rice paper as tools. Subject matter is divided into figure painting, landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting; Formal division of strokes and freehand brushwork. In general, it pursues the expression of charm and charm, and the modeling is not limited to the resemblance of appearance, but pays attention to the expression of the inner charm of foreign objects and the painter's affection. Portrait painting advocates depicting God in form and highlighting the inner world of characters. Landscape emphasizes the artistic conception creation of scene blending; Flower-and-bird painting emphasizes the expression of life and feelings. Chinese painting is different from western classical painting in the way of composition and space treatment, which only expresses the tradition of specific time and space, and often freely combines space according to the painter's subjective intention. For example, constantly moving the viewpoint or juxtaposing time and space, emphasizing the horizontal scroll of plane layout, using the method of height, plane and depth to result in the picture, and treating white as black and no picture as a wonderful place, etc. Line modeling is the most basic modeling method in China. Combined with the operation of the brush, the lines can not only be vivid, but also convey the painter's subjective emotions and have different visual and psychological feelings for the appreciator. The color expression of Chinese painting is developing towards subjective imagery. Meticulous brushwork emphasizes color, using high-purity colors to produce decorative interest and freehand brushwork in ink, but it dilutes the color into different ink colors. Combining the performance of Xuan paper and different brushwork, the thick and light ink colors can give people an imaginative and aesthetic feeling. China painters have always attached importance to expressing learning, character and sentiment in painting and calligraphy, which has formed a unique style of combining poetry, calligraphy and printing. Among them, poems, books and seals are not only an indispensable part of the picture, but also have the function of generating images and expressing feelings directly.

second, western painting?

traditional western painting emphasizes realism. Through the modeling factors such as light and shade, color, perspective, anatomy, etc., the painter truly depicts the natural objects he sees in his eyes, "as real as it is." Therefore, when appreciating realistic painting, it is necessary to appreciate how the painter skillfully uses the turning relationship between light and shade, the law of color contrast and coordination, the principle of perspective and anatomical structure, and the mechanism of painting strokes and pictures to truly reproduce the existing state of objective objects and the spiritual temperament of characters. However, foreign modern painting does not aim at reappearing the external reality of objective images, or expresses images with simple figures of points, lines, planes and TINT, or expresses the painter's inner emotions and views on the outside world with deformed, exaggerated and grotesque images. There are different kinds of foreign paintings in subject matter and content, and they also have their own emphasis when appreciating them. For example, genre painting, which mainly depicts local conditions and customs, should pay attention to its rich aesthetic feeling of life and simple folk feelings; Landscape painting, which mainly depicts natural scenery, should pay attention to the funny mood and emotion in natural scenery; Historical painting, which mainly reproduces historical time, should pay attention to the practical significance and the spirit of the times; Renaissance paintings with the theme of expressing religious or mythical content should appreciate the humanistic spirit and ideal contained in their religious or mythical plots; Portrait painting, which mainly depicts characters, should appreciate the inner spiritual temperament and ideological character of characters; Even in still life painting, we should examine its internal formal structure and different tastes through the object. Western modern painting has formed different schools due to different operating tendencies, so we should choose and appreciate it according to the school of painting.

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iii. main differences between Chinese painting and western painting

1. differences between Chinese and western painting concepts

in the development process of Chinese and western painting, due to the influence of different factors such as politics, cultural thoughts, religious philosophy, tools and materials, aesthetic taste, there are obvious differences between Chinese and western painting. A simple summary is that western painting emphasizes realism and Chinese painting emphasizes artistic conception. Another main feature of Chinese painting is line modeling. The function of lines goes far beyond the requirements of shaping the body and becomes an important means to express the author's thoughts and feelings. Western painters also use lines to create images, but they pay more attention to the image texture, quantity and space.

2. The materials of painting tools are different

China often uses China's special brush, ink or pigment to paint on Xuan paper or silk. Chinese painting uses different techniques such as hook, bridle and dot brush, which makes Chinese painting show endless line interest; And ink is used instead of color, which makes the ink color produce rich and subtle chromaticity changes, that is, "ink is divided into five colors." ? European traditional oil painting is painted on cloth, wood or cardboard with oily pigments, which is characterized by rich colors, bright colors and strong coverage, which can fully express the texture of objects, make the painted objects realistic and credible, and have strong artistic expression.

3、? Different modeling languages

Chinese paintings are modeled by lines, and the lines are full of rhythmic beauty. Paying attention to ink organically combines the image characteristics obtained by observing objects at different times and from different angles in spatial processing. However, the traditional European oil painting takes light and dark colors as modeling means, which has strong three-dimensional sense, strong light sense and strong texture. Oil painting has strong objectivity, careful observation and accurate table, giving people a strong sense of truth. In the west, fixed-point sketch depicts what you see according to the focus perspective, emphasizing on the description of the object and the construction of the ontology picture. It uses the change of color, the contrast between light and dark, and the focus perspective of near-big and far-small to produce three-dimensional real illusion in two-dimensional space.

4、? The tendency of aesthetic value is different

In terms of aesthetic tendency, China's classical paintings pay more attention to the inner spirit of objects and the expression of the author's subjective feelings. China's painting emphasizes meaning, expression and emotion, while China's classical painting is based on the basic philosophy of China, that is, the world view of the Book of Changes. Taking "the unity of man and nature" as its highest pursuit. Gu Kaizhi's theory of "vivid expression" made Chinese painting take "spirit" as the center from the beginning, and "form" as a means to express "spirit". "Vivid with form" has become the essence of China's painting, which is not easy through the ages. ? In traditional European oil paintings, more attention is paid to the realistic representation of the appearance of objects. European traditional oil paintings are still in shape, and they reproduce and emphasize rationality. European traditional oil painting is based on the artistic concept of "imitating nature" and "harmonious form", and its artistic conception is based on ancient Greek sculpture and architecture. His view of the universe is still the opposite of "people and things" and "mind in the environment". ? In a word, two kinds of paintings are the dominant ideas.