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How to treat "oil painting can be replaced by photography, and students are advised to learn Chinese painting."

This is a one-sided story, based on realistic oil painting. Many ancient masters' oil paintings were drawn through pinhole imaging, so the perspective of the painted works was impeccable, which can be said to be the earliest original camera. Later cameras were also developed according to painting operations, using photosensitive materials instead of manual painting.

But oil painting is always oil painting, and photography cannot be replaced. Even photography is not easy to shoot well, it is also art.

From classicism to post-modernism, from Leonardo da Vinci to contemporary art, the pace of art has never stopped, and it has long been out of the category of realism. In this process, oil painting is still the mainstream of contemporary art.

Traditional Chinese painting and oil painting have different status, so it is hard to say who is superior or inferior, and what to learn depends on personal hobbies. If you like China traditional culture, you might as well choose to study Chinese painting. If you prefer modern art, you might as well learn oil painting. Even in traditional Chinese painting, there are many contemporary artists, and painting is just a carrier and an expression for them.