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How to distinguish between calligraphy and painting by hand or printed matter


At present, the market is flooded with printing materials, so many buyers are worried that the calligraphy and painting works they buy are not all hand-painted works. Especially in the current popular online shopping, although many online stores have repeatedly stated that they are 100% hand-painted works, many customers are still worried about whether it is the same as described, or they can't buy with confidence! In order to enable buyers to accurately distinguish whether calligraphy and painting are hand drawn or printed, the details are as follows:

1. Watch: carefully watch the ink color, lines and back of the work. Look at the ink color of works. The ink color of authentic works has traces of pens. Where the ink color is thick, there will be a rough and three-dimensional sense; The ink color of the printed matter is relatively uniform, and the color is generally bright! Look at the lines of the works. The lines of the hand-painted works are smooth and natural. If they are not disconnected, the lines of the printed matter will be disconnected; Look at the back of the work. There will be ink penetration on the back of the full hand-painted work. You can see the ink penetration (except for cooked Xuan, which does not penetrate ink. Generally, cooked Xuan paper is used for meticulous painting)

2. Smell: Put the calligraphy and painting under your nose to smell. The whole hand-painted works have a thick smell of ink, while the printed materials have a pungent smell of ink

3. Touch: Because the hand-painted works are drawn one stroke at a time, the thick and light colors feel different to the touch. The hand-painted works will have a convex and concave feeling, while the printed materials will be smooth and flat

4. Contrast: hand-painted works will not have exactly the same works, works with the same shape, the same person painting, there will be small differences! Print is different, you can print hundreds of identical pictures