Why do westerners paint so realistically, but China people can't?

Painting concept: western painting pays attention to thinking, while eastern painting pays more attention to emotion. Therefore, western paintings are highly reproducible, vivid and have high cognitive value, while China's paintings are expressive and lyrical.

In the west, philosophy has a great influence on art, and science is closely related to painting. Philosophical mind and scientific literacy enable painters to observe nature with accurate mind, analyze nature with clear geometric and logical methods, and reproduce nature. China's paintings pay more attention to the unity of emotion and reason, and the combination of poetry and painting.

Perspective of painting: this is the most fundamental. China's paintings pay attention to conception, intentional writing and image thinking, and the unity of subjective and objective artistic images.

Modeling is not limited to surface similarity, but emphasizes "beauty lies in similarities and differences" and "differences and differences", and combines focus (one point) perspective with scattered (multi-point) perspective in perspective; Western paintings, on the other hand, focus on perspective, objectively and scientifically reflect the appearance of objects, which is characterized by truth and objectivity.

Painting tools: Different painting tools also create differences between Chinese and Western painting. Brush, paper and painting pigments are all unique, which embodies the wisdom of ancient people in China. Of course, the scientific and technological level of the whole western society was also very high at that time.

During the Renaissance, western humanism experienced the ups and downs of ideas and formed many artistic styles, not because of the number of styles, but because this ethos promoted people's thoughts and kept innovating.

On the other hand, in ancient China, due to the ideological rule of the ruling class in feudal society, people were forced to create the brilliance of Chinese painting within a certain framework, not for the king, but for the green mountains and green waters, which also limited the development of China's painting in the new era.

Of course, the meticulous painting developed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, in a sense, also emphasizes the focus perspective of western painting (there are fewer meticulous buildings).

Generally speaking, China's paintings pay attention to artistic conception. The composition of the picture can be: mountains in the north, water in the south, mountains and rivers in the chest, flowers and birds of characters, increase or decrease. The rigorous modeling and focused perspective of western painting determine its limitations in composition, but it also reflects the precision between square inches of western painting.

Extended data:

When it comes to the contrast between eastern and western paintings, the biggest difference is that the east prefers freehand brushwork and the west prefers realism. Both Chinese and western paintings reflect the truth of life, but in different ways.

Western painting, like drama and movies, expresses the truth of the inner essence of life through vivid external images; Oriental painting, like China's plays, expresses the truth of the inner essence of life through approximate external images.

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