What Sets Chinese Painting Apart From Western Painting
| Because of different instruments, materials and | writing brush and the Chinese paper (rice and silk). | |||
| cultural background, Chinese paintings have their | There are four essential elements used in the | |||
| own image and content in comparison to other | creation of Chinese Painting, the brush, ink, paper, | |||
| types of paintings. Unique appearance of Chinese | and the ink stone. Lacking any of them the job | |||
| Painting owes much to the use of the Chinese | cannot be done. |