Three, light performance
Western painting to pursue a realistic picture. Importance to the scenery changes of light and shadow. Because the object's volume is light and shadow can be realized. Leonardo da Vinci has outstanding contribution on the study and practice of lighting. Him through the painstaking watch eggs under light irradiation showed five basic tone and shade. Smooth, reflective tape, smooth, highlights, background and dark lines, divided into General, special light, light reflection and transmission light, using his own kind known as "mist method" of smooth shade transitions. To produce vivid characters and environments. His view that "Ming and dark, light and shadow, coupled with the performance of perspective laws constitute major strengths of the painting art". Form and structure of Chinese traditional painting even if more attention to image. Such as "three faces", also did not deliberately imitating a mountain of a specific form of water. While noting that "crack surface of the mountain shadow". Specific performance was not. Chinese painting. Changes in light and shadow are ambiguous, both edge and do not depict clear like Western oil painting, after all, the thrust of the relation is not a manifestation of Chinese paintings of light and shadow.
Four-expression of the form, content, and
(A) Western oil painting on the ideological content and artistic creation, artist express personal artistic feelings at the same time to respect things more. Faithfully reproduce things
Western oil painting focusing on using the principle of scientific perspective, such as human anatomy, artistic emotions, real life and scientific principles in the perfect combination of artistic creation. Western painting oil painting fully reflected in the scientific base. Oil painting subjects are: historical paintings. Religious stories painted, groups and individuals, such as portrait, landscape, still life painting, genre painting category.
Western development of traditional oil painting breaks the canvas for religious services in the past, a single theme. Painters increased further to go in real life. To reflect the extraordinary in the ordinary life. In shaping specific image of greater reliance on scientific results as the cornerstone, ratio, structure, perspective, Anatomy, optics, mathematics ... ... Fully application of scientific results, such as in the picture. In their typical scenario, typical characters throughout the picture, typical events, and so on, and hopes his real feelings in the painting. Pictures mainly embodies the "likeness" of core, fully embodies the "Arts originate from life, and above life" principle of this art.
(B) on the ideological content and artistic creations of the Chinese painting, reflection of social awareness, the spirit of the Chinese nation, temperament, cultural and aesthetic interest, epitomizes the Chinese understanding of the natural, social and human aspects
Painting theme on it there are three main types: portrait oil painting, and painting, and landscape painting. Is the accumulated collection objective image of Chinese painting in the heart, and then to show the essence of things, making subjective adjustments in its image, "likeness" as the core, "form and spirit." The objective things, and commonness of Chinese painting more performance-oriented while exaggerated personalities, and emphasis on Freehand brushwork and artistic rendering.
Five differences, materials, tools and techniques
(A) the differences in materials and tools to use
1. Oil painting mainly: after processing to do, such as cloth, wood, cardboard frame: elastic good animal hair or fluff brush, can also be made of flexible thin steel sheet painted painting knives knife ghost writer: using color oil and turpentine as a dilution for pigments to reconcile.
2. Mainly of Chinese painting: paper, silk to make a picture, such as: paints to brushes of varying elasticity: reconciling agent water do to reconcile ink pigments and shades, bias. Used materials from Western painting and Chinese painting tools, doomed to a combination of intention to paint, painting focused on expressing the shape and color of things, Ray and so on; while the Chinese paintings focus on the expression of artistic conception of things, is between "form" and "means" two representatives of.
(B) differences in techniques:
1. Western oil painting techniques to the fullest extent in the centuries, mainly:
(1) transparent color of his law, IE not white but was multi-level color pigments, oil diluted paint. Subject to the previous layer to dry for the next layer of paint. Each layer of color is relatively thin. So the underlying colors can vaguely revealing, and upper formation delicate color tones. Suitable for performance of image texture and thick sense, but a narrow color gamut. Upon completion of the works a long time. Not easy to show the artist immediate emotions.
(2) his opaque color method, also known as a multilayer coloring method. When painting in monochrome painting out body appearance, then color multi-layer shape, generally dark thin. Tone and light thick in the middle. Comparison between thin and thick showed the rich connotations of color and texture. No strict difference both descriptive and often integrated use of numerous works.
(3) opaque coloring method, also known as direct coloring method. Contour laying is completed with images of color feeling or idea to screen color coloring, a complete basic, not the right place to continue after scrape paint adjustment. This method is simple to express painters painting a vivid feeling.
To sum up, painting in expressiveness, color-layer elastic, permanently save far more than China in areas such as art. Oil painting materials and techniques to the painters painting brings a flexible, broad freedom of space, in addition to paint with a brush, and oil paintings. Artists can also use tools for scraper, such as painting, oil painting picture texture effect is all the more rich. The same is happening in both transparent and opaque had very good integration. Repeatedly with the unique characteristics of oil painting, painters you can repeatedly adjusted the screen. Constantly improving the formal beauty of the picture. Painting materials, their own unique techniques of oil painting in the rich under the expression, make its picture is irreplaceable by other forms of painting, both in its images on the color levels, body shape, also was on the scene of contrast, stroke thickness changes are reflected on it hold endless unique artistic taste.
2. On the authoring techniques of Chinese painting has the following main features
(1) attention to ideas, embrace whatever one wishes to say his pen follows, and confident and thinking, artistic image of the subjective and objective-oriented uniform. Modelling disregard to the appearance of the shape. Emphasis on "wonderful in between like and unlike" and "not". Can displays images of portraying the image of its air of glamour and subjective emotional thrust of the painter. Can therefore abandon essence or associated with the image feature is not part of the external, for those who can reflect the spirit characteristic of some, you can exaggerate even deformation approach to characterization.
(2) on the layout, and emphasis on management of Chinese painting, it is not based on a fixed space or time, but in a flexible manner. Break the limits of time, space, images at different time and space. In accordance with the principle of painter's subjective experience and artistic creation, regroup, construct a spatio-temporal realm of self-understanding, a painter. So that everything appears in different time and space in the same picture. Therefore, in a perspective which is not affected by a single focus on limited perspective, instead of using multi-point or scatter perspective, to move up and down or left and right, before and after the manner of view viewfinder, management composition, have a great degree of freedom and flexibility. And a focus on the comparison of the actual situation in the layout of the painting, embrace "soothing the zouma", "airless" principle, in virtual reality, real is virtual.
All in all. Western painting and Chinese painting in two different cultural awareness and aesthetic ideas formed under two different styles, different Visual Forms of painting. Painting performance language for Westerners to achieve mastery of the objective world physical forms a harmonious, ideal forms of beauty in the vision contained in the main scientific and rational understanding of the objective world: Chinese traditional painting language to show off their own psychological harmony. Pursuit of meaning outside the borders. In order to achieve spiritual communication between man and nature and the ideal personality formation.