What's the difference between painting and photography?

First of all, painting and photography are two different art forms, and they express love songs in different languages. Just like there is a beautiful scenery in front of you, you can express it in any of these forms, then you can express it by photography or with a brush. Similarly, it can also be expressed in words, such as a landscape. You can use both literary language and music, just like a guitar to express the original scenery of your hometown. In a word, all different artistic categories are different expression languages. Just like you have a crush on a girl, you can sing a love song on the guitar to express your love for her, or you can say "I love you" in English with a bunch of roses, but in any case, they will show the same thing in the end, which is the essence of art.

Therefore, I must know in my heart that no matter what kind of expression, although the external appearance is ever-changing, Lizi must do whatever it takes to achieve the same goal.

Now let's look at the subtle relationship between photography and painting.

Give an ordinary example in life: opposite you is a "beautiful scenery". When you pick up the camera and aim at this landscape, there will be two kinds of backgrounds. One is technical simple imaging, just like the photos we usually take because of work needs or other needs. The studio owner raised his camera and looked at you sitting on the stool, with red or white photographic background, official expression and unsmiling face. Then the photographer pressed the shutter and a formal photo came out.

In addition, there is another kind of photography, that is, artistic photography. When you go to the suburbs with your camera, it's already late spring in March. Birds are singing and dancing everywhere, grass is dancing, and the sun shines through the green leaves, which is particularly beautiful. Your heart is touched by the beauty in front of you. In order to leave this touching beauty, you hold up the camera, adjust the focal length, press the shutter and save it in the camera. Now let's have a look. Although these two kinds of photography are the same photo and show the same thing (the same scenery), their connotations are different. The former photography is entirely for simple imaging; The latter photography is an aesthetic thought, and it is an emotion injected into it because of an emotion to beauty.

The part behind these two kinds of photography corresponds to the two backgrounds of realistic painting. In other words, if I want to be "realistic, no different from the real thing", then this kind of realism is meaningless. In terms of existence value, it is only a dry formalism in technology and has no aesthetic value.

The other is to integrate one's own aesthetic thoughts, life experiences and poetic feelings in the process of realising the present things. Therefore, it can be clearly seen that although the two kinds of photography correspond to two kinds of realistic paintings, the difference between them is that one is technical simple imaging; One is to pour aesthetic thoughts, rich life experience and poetry. Therefore, photography should be viewed separately, and so should realistic painting.

In short, regardless of poetry, painting, music, literature or photography, regardless of the external appearance of various forms, the final comparison is the spiritual core of the creative subject's artistic cognition, perspective, feelings, aesthetic concepts and so on. This is why artists who casually express a theme are more interesting than ordinary people who express the same theme. Everyone has a performance tool (language, brush, camera, etc. These tools are resources for everyone, the difference lies in whether they can be used or not, and how to use them.