Comparison of differences between Chinese and western paintings

The biggest difference between Chinese and Western painting is that the East prefers freehand brushwork while the West prefers realism.

In painting concept, western painting pays attention to thinking, while eastern painting pays more attention to emotion. Therefore, western painting has strong reproducibility, vivid image and higher cognitive value; China's paintings are expressive, lyrical and pay more attention to the unity of emotion and reason, and the combination of poetry and painting.

From the perspective of painting, this is the most fundamental. China's paintings attach importance to conception, paying attention to intentional writing and thinking in images, and paying attention to the unity of subjective and objective artistic images; Western painting, on the other hand, focuses on the perspective of focus, which reflects the appearance of objects objectively and scientifically, and its main feature is truthfulness and objectivity.

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

both Chinese and western paintings reflect the truth of life, but the ways are not exactly the same. Western painting, like drama and film, 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.

Chinese and western painting art is like two peaks with different shapes. Although they also have endless artistic appeal, they are integrated into one. In this particular historical period of globalization, the communication between China's painting art and western painting art has become increasingly close.

Different ways of thinking between China and the West determine the inherent differences between Chinese and Western arts. Perhaps it is the different attitudes towards nature between China and the West that make Chinese and Western paintings so different.

Although they are very different, today's society all wants what they want. Different people have different aesthetics and hobbies, so they choose different painting styles.

Extended materials:

The difference between western painting and modern painting is also reflected in the different attitudes towards so-called reproduction. For traditional painting, reproduction is the root, and it can also be said that it is the basic goal of western traditional painting.

although the main feature of western traditional painting is "reproducibility" compared with modern painting, this kind of reproduction is by no means a constant description of nature, and this kind of realism has strong style characteristics: times, nationality and the artist's personal style characteristics.

In the eyes of modernist painters who are committed to pursuing pure art, traditional painting is mixed with too many "non-artistic impurities". In fact, western traditional painting is not about art, but about many non-artistic aspects while paying attention to artistry. This is probably an important sign that traditional painting is different from modernist painting.

The impure nature of traditional painting in art is mainly manifested in the aspects of utility and description.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Western Painting