Characteristics of Traditional Chinese Ink Painting

Chinese paintings can be subdivided into ink painting, heavy color, light red, brushwork, writing, white drawing, etc., according to their materials and methods of expression; and according to their subjects, there are figure paintings, landscape paintings, flower and bird paintings, etc. The format of Chinese paintings is more diverse. There are various forms of Chinese paintings, such as horizontal scrolls (also known as hand scrolls) and horizontal ponchos, vertical banners and centerpieces, full-size albums and doufangs, and folding fans and fans painted on top of fans. Chinese paintings reflect the social consciousness and aesthetic taste of the Chinese nation in terms of ideological content and artistic creation, concentrating on the Chinese people's understanding of nature, society and the political, philosophical, religious, moral, literary and artistic aspects associated with it.

Oil painting is a form of painting in which oil pigments are used as a means of painting.

The classification of painting: 1, country classification, such as Chinese painting, Western painting.

2, the classification of painting materials, such as ink, oil painting, drawing.

3. Classification by subject matter, such as landscape, birds and flowers, landscape, portrait.

4. Categorized by painter's school, such as classical, impressionism, abstraction.

Oil painting can be painted with oil paint using oil brushes, scrapers and other tools. Modern oil painting materials are even more exotic, so can not be generalized.

Nowadays, there are non-Chinese painting techniques in Chinese painting, and some of them refer to gouache painting techniques...