The difference between Chinese painting and oil painting

The differences between Chinese painting and oil painting are: different painting tools, different techniques, different expression techniques, different picture performances and different inscriptions.

1, different painting tools.

Chinese painting mainly uses tools such as brush, ink, rice paper, inkstone and pigment. , and sometimes you need color mixing (color storage) tools, water storage tanks, thin blankets, glue and alum, mortar, etc. The main materials and tools of oil painting are pigments, turpentine, brushes, knives, canvases, charcoal strips, charcoal pens, varnishes, picture frames and so on.

2. Different technologies

Chinese painting does not pay attention to perspective, anatomy and background, but pays attention to subjectivity and vividness, focusing on natural themes. Techniques include freehand brushwork (rough brush), sketch, double hook, five-color ink, eighteen strokes, line drawing (Pythagorean method), wet pen, dry pen (dry pen, burnt pen and thirsty pen), trembling pen and rolling pen.

Oil painting pays attention to objectivity, perspective, anatomy, realism and background, with characters as the main theme, and the techniques are frustration, pat, line, rubbing, sweeping, poking, pulling, rubbing, making, building, painting, scratching, painting and posing.

3. Different expression skills

Chinese painting pays attention to artistic conception, often depicting clouds, mountains, trees, waterfalls and other things that look like natural flats from a distance, and occasionally depicting houses and utensils, without paying attention to perspective, but arbitrarily expressing them. Oil painting pays attention to perspective, that is, it represents three-dimensional objects on a plane and strives to look like real objects, so it pays great attention to perspective.

4, the picture performance is different

Chinese painting uses simple colors and pays attention to blank space. Blanking is a part of the picture, which has a lot to do with composition. Sometimes a leaf and several stamens can make a picture. The color of oil painting is extremely rich, and the picture is filled, giving people a sense of vigilance and heaviness.

5. The existence of inscription and postscript is different.

In Chinese painting, the connotation and significance of the inscription is much higher than the painting itself, and sometimes it is the explanation of the picture, which plays the role of making the finishing point and presents a harmonious beauty, which is very interesting. There is no such thing as an inscription in oil painting.

China traditional painting

Chinese painting (also known as Chinese painting) is a traditional form of painting in China, which mainly refers to scroll painting painted on silk, rice paper and silk and framed. The word Chinese painting originated in the Han Dynasty, with themes such as figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, and techniques such as realism and freehand brushwork. In content and artistic creation, it embodies the ancients' cognition of nature, society, politics and related philosophy.