1. Chinese painting and Western oil painting are traditional Eastern and Western paintings respectively.
Oil painting uses oil paint on canvas, while traditional Chinese painting uses ink on rice paper.
2. Oil paintings are very rich in colors, while traditional Chinese paintings use relatively few colors.
Oil painting is very colorful and is good at using various colors to express emotions. Ink painting only uses ink to paint, and various colors require adjusting different proportions of water.
3. Oil painting focuses on restoring the things themselves, while traditional Chinese painting uses freehand calligraphy to express its inner meaning.
In Chinese painting, an image is often formed with just one stroke of the brush. However, this is not the case in oil painting and Chinese painting. Oil painting is divided into various schools, and some schools also use abstract expressions.
4. Traditional Chinese paintings are mostly landscapes, while oil paintings are mostly about figures.
The main reason is that Chinese painting looks more majestic when painting landscapes, while oil painting is more delicate, so more people use it to paint portraits.
Extended information:
The artistic characteristics of Chinese painting attach great importance to conception in creation, requiring that "the intention should be deposited in the brush first, and the intention should be conveyed in the painting." Emphasis is placed on the scene, the creative artistic conception, and the characterization strives to describe the spirit with form, with both form and spirit, and vivid charm.
The modeling concept of the painting comes from life. In the process of refining and selecting objects, it does not break away from people's visual experience, nor does it violate the logic of life. The modeling is not limited to superficial similarities, but emphasizes "The beauty lies between similarity and dissimilarity" and "the similarity between dissimilarity".
In terms of pen and ink techniques, line modeling is the main method, supplemented by point and surface modeling. Use dots, lines and surfaces to describe the object's shape, texture, texture, light and darkness, and mood. The shape, quality and image of objects are reflected through the combination of various lines of different weights and thicknesses, as well as the cooperation of different points and surfaces such as large and small, virtual and solid.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Painting