中国画的黑白与西方油画、版画及黑白装饰画中的黑白有着本质的区别。西方绘画重视对光影的表现,运用黑白来塑造物象的明暗关系,装饰画的黑白主要指的是一种黑白色彩对比关系。另外,中国画的黑主要指墨汁的黑,但它不是一种单纯的黑,中国画运用宣纸的渗化性能,在白色宣纸上能产生墨色的焦、浓、重、淡的不同墨色的变化。中国画的黑白超越了狭义的黑白范围,它包含着虚实、正反、有无、气韵、神妙、刚柔、动静、理趣等美学 Black and white Chinese painting and Western oil paintings, black and white prints and black and white decorative painting is essentially different. Western painting attaches importance to the performance of light and shadow, using black and white to create the relationship between light and shade, decorative painting black and white mainly refers to a black and white color contrast. In addition, the black of Chinese painting mainly refers to the blackness of ink, but it is not a mere blackness. Chinese paintings use the permeability of rice paper and can produce different colors of coke, color, weight and light on white rice paper. Black and white Chinese painting beyond the narrow range of black and white, it contains the actual situation, positive and negative, with or without, charm, magic, rigidity, movement, interest and other aesthetics