Oriental Nature Scenery and Landscape Oil Painting

Oriental Nature Scenery and Landscape Oil Painting; Mountains and water are not only the main structural elements in a oriental landscape painting, but serve as symbols of the Yin and Yang. They are structural ideas, hence the significance of the term ShanShui (mountain water) for landscape pictures. The rules of the Eastern style painting are see the great in the small and, see the small in the perspective of the great; There are differences in the use of color between Eastern painting and modern western painting. Oriental painting aim is not to express the various shades of color of the subject in relation to a fixed source of light, but to express the characteristics of the different subjects. Chinese landscape painters' aim is to depict the familiar mountains and rivers of China from the perspective of nature as a whole and on the basis of their understanding of the laws of nature. In artistic conception and structural composition, most landscape paintings' create the impression that the scene is viewed from high in the air, as if seen through the eyes of a bird.