Differences between China's Landscape Painting and Western Landscape Painting

The difference between China's landscape painting and western landscape painting lies in the form of expression, characteristics, spatial expression, lines and colors.

1, the difference of expression forms

China's landscape paintings mainly express emotions with artistic conception, giving people a feeling that they can play freely and are not limited by real space. In the development of landscape painting in China, we adhere to the principle of giving priority to lines, supplemented by colors, and attach great importance to the expression of decorative feeling. China's landscape painting attaches great importance to the form, spirit, artistic conception and charm of artistic works, and pays attention to the aesthetic embodiment of landscape painting.

In western painting, the painter will pay attention to the study of light, shade and color of objects, and use techniques and colors flexibly to improve the visual fidelity of the picture. In western traditional painting, people, scenery and still life all pursue visual effects. Through the study of modeling, light and shade, color and perspective principle, the painter can reproduce the image naturally, truly and stereoscopically, and its fidelity can even achieve the effect of confusing the fake with the real.

2, the difference between performance characteristics

China painters didn't use the technique of reappearing the real space, but focused on the seemingly flat image, and pinned their emotions and spirits in the picture through some brushstrokes.

In China's paintings, the painter pays special attention to the pursuit of "expressing ambition", which is influenced by China's philosophical thoughts of "standing as an image as best as possible" and "getting carried away", which makes China's traditional paintings more inclined to the techniques of "simplifying the complex" and "simplifying the simple", trying to express the painter's feelings and achieve the purpose of "expressing ambition".

Western painters believe that sacred values exist outside people and the world, and they can only be felt by watching and listening. Moreover, western painters believe that God is the creator of the world and beauty, so the ultimate goal of expressing beauty in painting is to get close to God.

3. Differences in spatial performance

China painters grasp the space Vientiane in the flow of sight, and don't limit the fixed position, so they also pay attention to the flowing characteristics of the picture in the spatial expression. In China's landscape paintings, he emphasized free play and painted around the painter's emotional changes.

In western landscape painting, we attach great importance to the authenticity of visual effects, and the principle of focus perspective is that according to what people see statically when watching, it conforms to people's observation habits, so that the painted picture can have a certain sense of depth, conform to its materiality and be more realistic.

4. The difference between lines and colors

During the continuous accumulation of China's paintings, various "lines" appeared, which became an important way for painters to express their feelings and hearts. In landscape painting, artists use "lines" to shape the characteristics of rocks, thus forming "lines" with different shapes. The use of "lines" directly affects the quality of works.

In western painting, the painter understands the object as "face", which makes it easier to understand what appears on the surface, and the visual effect is quite different from China's landscape painting. For example, the lakes and mountains in western landscape paintings are basically composed of "faces", giving people a real and three-dimensional visual effect.

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