Differences between Chinese and Western cultures;
Chinese painting and western painting, as the most representative paintings in the East and the West, are produced in their respective cultural systems. Due to the cultural differences between China and the West, there are many differences in painting concepts, painting tools and materials, painting techniques and expressions, painting forms, painting theme selection and so on.
China culture has a prominent feature, which is implicit, restrained, neutral and natural. Under the domination of this culture, Chinese painting has traditionally established the painting concept of "freehand brushwork" and natural expression, paying attention to expressing the deep, wide, far and rich artistic conception of the picture, giving people a relaxed, peaceful and distant feeling, expressing feelings and cultivating sentiment, without deliberately pursuing the realistic effect of the picture. The beauty of Chinese painting lies in artistic conception, and the beauty lies in similarity and dissimilarity.
The beauty of western oil painting lies in the image and the beauty lies in the intuitive three-dimensional. If there is any essential difference between Chinese and western painting, it is the difference of painting concept. Under the support of this painting concept, Chinese painting has formed the pen and ink art of "painting and calligraphy are of the same origin" and formed the external expression and rich connotation of "poetry, painting and calligraphy".
Another outstanding feature of western culture is openness, publicity, directness and intuition. Under the domination of this culture, western painting (mainly oil painting) has established the concept of "realistic painting" from the beginning, which is to restore the true colors of objective images and express people with scientific and rigorous modeling concrete. From creative techniques to expression techniques, he exhausted his wisdom and deliberately pursued the realistic effect of the picture with science, forming a western painting system dominated by classical realistic oil paintings.
However, although there are many differences between Chinese and western paintings, there is no difference between them. It should be said that Chinese painting and western painting are the crystallization of human civilization and wisdom, and they are two flowers in painting art, one blooming. They have their own characteristics, their own characteristics, their own advantages and their own exquisite and profound attractions, all of which bring people visual beauty and spiritual enjoyment.
Traditional painters in China believe that pen and ink are very important for Chinese painting, and Chinese painting cannot be separated from pen and ink, without which it is not called Chinese painting. Chinese painting has a set of language system, and Chinese painting has its own unique modeling and the use of tools and materials. Chinese painting has its own pen and ink language, so we can find a structure with personality and emotion, which has the unique attributes of China culture, because China culture is poetic and does not pay much attention to the expression of materials, but as this material, it pays attention to writing itself.
Differences between Chinese and western artistic conception expressions;
Chinese painting is the expression of spiritual images: painting is not about telling others what it is or what you see. At this level, painting is meaningless. I think painting should be close to my heart. Have you really been touched, injected with anything, or painted anything? What you draw may be more important than what you draw, and it is emotional. Chinese painting is "freehand brushwork" and "writing"
Chinese painting pays great attention to the artistic conception of the picture, the god outside the painting and the painting outside the painting; The layout of the pattern pays attention to penetration and sparse horse racing, that is, intensive and organized; In addition, I also hope that my poems, books, paintings and seals are all good, because there are inscriptions, inscriptions and seals after paintings ... By the Yuan Dynasty (127 1-1368), ink painting occupied an absolute position, and there were only two colors on ink painting.
In addition, the picture emphasizes blank space, which increases the sense of space in the picture. Western painting, especially after discovering a series of principles of light and color, also emphasizes the construction of a sense of space through color saturation, transparency and the relationship between reality and reality. Both Chinese and western paintings have specific forms of expression, such as lines commonly used in China, while colors are often contrasted in the West; Chinese painting depends on water in materials, while ink painting is more in the west. What is often mentioned in the method is the difference between scatter perspective and focus perspective.
Chinese painting adopts scattered perspective method, that is, the observation point is not limited to one point, the angle of view can be moved at will, and everything seen at each point can be accommodated in the picture, so it often has the effect of thousands of miles away; Focus perspective, like photography, draws what you see at a point truthfully, and does not show what you can't see, emphasizing the three-dimensional sense and realism of the picture; Technically speaking, Chinese painting is a bit, dyed and convex.
Western schools are more complex and have more diverse skills. In fact, modern Chinese painting has absorbed many western painting techniques. The obvious feature of concentrating on western painting is that Xu Beihong devoted himself to China's painting and absorbed western painting, emphasizing the basic skills of western painting sketch, and vigorously promoted it in painting teaching, which has influenced it to this day!