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What is the specific difference between Chinese painting and oil painting?

The specific differences between Chinese painting and oil painting are as follows:

1, Chinese painting lines are full, but oil painting lines are not obvious. Most lines are not original objects, but the realm used by painters to express two objects. For example, in Chinese painting, an egg-shaped line is drawn to represent a person's face. In fact, there are no such lines around people's faces. This line is the dividing line between face and background. Another example is to draw a ruler line to represent a person's nose. In fact, there is no such line on the nose. This line is the dividing line between nose and face. Another example is landscapes, flowers and so on. There are no lines in the object, but the painter uses lines. The lines in the mountains and rivers are specially named "travertine". The lines in the characters are specially named "clothes pleats". This is a difficult research work. Western painting only has the boundaries of things, and the boundaries are not drawn. Therefore, western paintings are very much like physical objects, while Chinese paintings are not like physical objects. You can know that they are paintings at a glance. Guy China's painting and calligraphy are in the same strain, and painting, like writing, freely reveals his mind.

2. Multi-focus perspective of oil painting and scattered perspective of Chinese painting.

3. Chinese painting does not talk about anatomy, while western figure painting attaches great importance to anatomy.

4. Chinese painting does not emphasize the background, while oil painting emphasizes the background. There are also differences in painting tools.