In order to reproduce the real human visual experience as a "mirror image", we use color and light and dark modeling, leaving no blank in the picture and reasonable composition. We use scientific perspective and chromatics to express the spatial changes of colors, and the images are vivid and typical. This reproducible artistic tradition in the West has undergone great changes and continuity in different styles, such as Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Impressionism. It was not until the oriental painting thought was introduced and influenced a group of painters such as Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin that great changes began to appear.

Third, the differences and connections between Chinese and Western paintings

Both Chinese painting and western painting, as an art form, have their own characteristics. Judging from the content of painting, the history of China painting and the history of western painting, in the early stage of their development, both paid attention to figure painting and served religion, forming the so-called religious painting. Ancient China was a feudal system for a long time. Under the rule of emperors, nobles and landlords, painting should serve them. Painting promotes feudal ethics and its concept of fertility. Its purpose is to paralyze the people and consolidate the political power of the feudal ruling class. There is a similar situation in western painting, that is, in the medieval period of ancient feudal society, the culture of western European countries was completely shrouded in Christian theology, and science, education, literature and art were all religious, and western painting was no exception, serving religion. From the form of painting, painting is mainly manifested in: they are tangible and colorful concrete artistic images that can be directly seen to reflect social life and express the painter's feelings about objective reality. Painting is one of the most colorful art forms in the whole art and even the whole art category. Judging from the connotation of painting, although there are great differences between Chinese and western paintings, they all pursue the unity of harmony and truth, goodness and beauty.

Four. conclusion

To sum up, although Chinese and western artists have different starting points and creative methods, they have many similarities in exploring truth, goodness and beauty, excavating human empathy and safeguarding social responsibility. Comparing with each other is also a kind of cultural creation and a kind of cultural construction. It is important to constantly seek the combination of Chinese and western arts, while absorbing western arts, to maintain the traditional spirit of China art and to innovate, thus having a positive impact on the contemporary cultural construction in China.