subject: Some Brief Introductions To Oil Painting [print this page] In recent years, oil painting has got into the common people gradually. When people decorate the wall, they often choose some water color, Chinese painting and oil painting, especially oil painting which is more popular by people.
In our Country, painting market is divided into three kinds generally: Chinese painting, Western painting and folk painting.
Chinese painting stresses artistic conception, intention, and writing. While Western painting does not.
The Western painting is including oil paintings, wood block, sketches, water color, and gouache etc. The oil painting is the most expressive, practical and decorative one.
The Western oil painting was imported to our Country for only 300 years. However it got into the peoples society life until the beginning of last century. After the reform and opening, all kinds of style and school for painting had their own place.
Oil painting creation is divided into theme painting, genre painting, landscape painting, portrait painting and still life painting etc by subject matter. But whatever which subject matter, works is mainly depending on two elements of model and color. That is to say, what oil painting used is three shown means of form, light, hue.
Form means forms and shapes. This request artist should have creative ability and deep basic training for sketch at first. You can not paint it well without good sketch base. For example building can not stand without foundation.
Light means the shown of light efficiency. After the start of France impressionism, people start to study and express for the light. The understandings about the light by artist tend to science and reason. So their expression about the light is more vivid. Light and shadow is the important elements to present the atmosphere. It will be understand easily if we see the light effects of the drama stage.
The most important element for oil painting is color. Hue is different from the color on the palette. The artists never take the color on the palette from the factory to the canvas intact. These colors should be concocted painterly by the artists to make them soft, vivid and harmony and unity between color chips. This is tone what we often said. One oil painting color can not combine hastily. It also can not be complex which is bewildering. It should form the trend which can show some color also with changeable and delicate picture effect.
The color tone is the soul of oil painting. Without tone which means one oil painting does not form a kind of keynote and does not have harmony and unity also diversify color combination. Then, so the speak this oil painting does not pass line. Besides the above requests, oil painting also pays attention to shapes, touches and rhythm etc.
