History of western oil painting

The development of painting through the classical, modern, modern several times and in different times during the painting art of thinking is being affected by control and constraint techniques, showing a different aspect.
Conditions of the early history of oil development has laid a classical realist painting tendencies. 15th century European Renaissance, the humanist thought out criticism of religion, with attention to the positive requirements of social reality, and many famous artists in order to gradually get rid of a single creative theme of the Christian classic, beginning when the characters life , landscape, painted items, and direct observation, so that works with religious themes with a clear and present secular factors, some artists depict real life completely real. Renaissance painters inherited Greek and Roman art the idea that not only focus on work to describe an event or fact, but also to reveal the causes and effects of events or facts, so pay attention to the idea of forming a typical image of a typical plot and the art of shaping the way . At the same time, artists were also exploring anatomy, perspective drawing of the use of science in the picture the role of light and shade, forming the shape of scientific principles. The use of human anatomy so that character has been painting as accurate as the ratio of the real, physical, structural; Focus Lens with the establishment of the composition formed by painting the illusion of deep space, painting in the landscape orientation and the reality of the moment the same visual experience; shading painted the unity of the images sent in one of the main light source, formed by the clear level of near and far. Art theme of humanism and the pursuit of realistic painting style concepts in other species it is not perfect, because the tool material constraints, and painting tools and materials are suitable for the performance of two fully reflected. Thus, classical oil painting after a long-term production, highly realistic look.
Classical oil painting oil painting is the language in the overall factors were the result of the integrated use of the time, but different countries and different periods of the artist on the basis of a special focus on one or several factors, the formation of a different style. Italian Renaissance painter pay more attention to the use of shading, dark objects in a painting of the Ministry of shrouded in shadow, light and dark boundary line was a soft transition, creating a focused and unaware of the effect of the screen. L. da Vinci's "Madonna of the Rocks" is representative of this style. Netherlands the same period a clear portrait of the artist is all detail objects in a painting, the scene rather than the difference between light and dark color of the transition, R. Campion's clover altar painting "Annunciation" to detail all the indoor and outdoor show features. Italy, Titian was the first one special focus on oil painting color performance artist, he painted on a dark base, and often close to the brightness, hue, the bright colors slightly different form magnificent golden hue, transparent pigments multiple cascade, suddenly suddenly thin thick strokes, but also the fusion of organic colors and shapes, creating a textured effect.
17th century European classical paintings of the period of rapid development in different regions, the country's artists live in a society based on their background, national temperament, the painting carried out in different languages to explore the deep, the type of oil paintings by subject matter into historical painting, religion story of painting, group portraits, personal portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre painting and so on. Painting techniques are also becoming more abundant, and formed a national, regional school of thought.

oil paintings in China

During this perioud in Yan’an, the style of artists had been influenced by “The speech of meeting on culture and art in Yan’an,”  XuBeiHong’s realism painting style was matched with that thought:”Culture and art should serve for worker and farmer soldiers” in that era.So his realism painting style gradually became standardized oil painting in China.

In 1964, Under the slogan:”Taking the classes’ struggling as the guidence”, The persons such as Lin Biao,Jiang Qing took a cultural sweep to culture and art field. Many painters’works were taken away, For instance,Zhong Han’s 《The edge of Yan River》, Du Jian’s 《Moving forward in the torrent》，Li Hua Ji’s 《Princess Wen Cheng》, Qin Zheng’s 《Home》 and etc. All these works were sentenced by fabricated crimes in the public and almost destroyed. On the other hand, oil painting has become the tools of creating the God, 《Chairman Mao to AnYuan》 has become typical work for that time。The number of printings for that painting reached over 100 million. At this time, some young talent oil painters began to appear, such as Chen DanQing, Shen Jia Wei, Chen Yiming, etc. Their representative works were: 《Never stop the war》, 《Tribute to the Yellow River》 ,《Tears covered the harvest fields》, 《I guard for my great motherland》 and so on.           (Wonderful collection of Cheap Oil Paintings,They are all Discount Oil Paintings.)It was the opening period of art after the Cultural Revolution, Various forms of paintings were booming and the forms of paintings were also varied.  Those works such as Luo ZhongLi’s 《father》, Chen DanQing’s 《Tibet of paintings》, Wen LiPeng’s 《Daughter of Earth》, Zhan JianJun’s 《Looking back》, were masterpieces of this period. After this primary booming period of art, oil painting reached a new crossroads again, It has been urgent for Chinese paintings to have more modernized and fresher air, Therefore,Those works such as HuTiLin, Jia Difei’s 《General Yang JingYu》, Su Xiaobo’s 《The great family of mother》, Yu XiaoFu’s 《I gently knock on the door》, and other works made a new breakthrough to the theme of paintings under the care of contemporary sense.We provide Oil Painting Reproduction. Cheap Oil Painting are all Hand Painted,including Van Gogh, Monet, Georgia O’keeffe and more. Free shipping, ready to hang, no frame needed.

Painting materials and tools

Vegetable oil to reconcile with transparent pigments, have grounding in the production of cloth, paper, wood and other materials to shape the artistic image of the painting. It originated and developed in Europe, to become the world's important modern painting. Produced before the 15th century European paintings in egg tempera is a painting of the former. In the use of egg tempera method at the same time, many artists continue to find more desirable to reconcile agent. Generally believed that the early 15th century Netherlandish painter Van Eyck brothers is the founder of oil painting techniques. They try to Yongyou predecessors on the basis of dissolved pigment with linseed oil and walnut oil as a reconciling agent to paint when the brush causing Miaohui smooth, paint drying time on the screen is moderate, easy-to-cover and the painting process several modifications before rich colors and gloss levels, after the paint dry, strong adhesion, easy to peel and fade. They
Creative use of new materials, oil painting, very influential at the time of the painting. Oil painting techniques soon spread in other countries in Western Europe, especially in Venice, Italy to develop rapidly.

    Painting materials and tools are the main pigments, brushes, painting knives, canvas, glazing, frame and so on.

    ① pigments, minerals, and chemical synthesis of the two sub-categories. The original paint, mostly mineral pigments, ground into fine by hand, painting only to reconcile in epistaxis. Modern mass production from the plant, into the tin tube, the type of paint is also increasing. Pigments contained in the performance of its chemical composition, color, the chemistry between the lead paint some adverse reactions. Thus, the performance of paint will help to master oil painting techniques and to work full color enduring.

    ② brush, using elastic medium made of animal hair, a pointed front circular, flat front flat shape, short front and the fan-shaped and other types of flat.

    ③ draw a knife, also known as a palette knife, with a flexible thin sheet made of a pointed shape, round shape of the points, used to paint on the palette and mix thoroughly, many painters were written with a knife, a knife directly painting on canvas or in part in the formation of pigment level, texture, increase the expression.

    ④ canvas, the standard canvas, linen or canvas is tight inside the box in the wood, the use of glue or oil with white powder blending and brushing the surface of the cloth made of. Generally not made of oil and has a grounding effect Gyrosigma, or made under the creative needs of semi-or fully absorbing the base oil. Gyrosigma thickness according to the size of the frame, but also need to select based on paint effects. Some artists use canvas background color coated, easy to form a unified picture of color, his paintings can also inadvertently expose the substrate. After coating, after the end of production, not oil the wood or cardboard can also replace the canvas.

    ⑤ Varnish is usually done in oil and coated with varnish is dry cover to keep the screen brightness to prevent erosion and fouling the air.

    ⑥ frame, oil paintings, including a complete frame, especially the strong realistic painting, the viewer of the work frame to form the boundaries of sight, so that the screen appears to complete, focused, painting the images in the viewer the feeling of towards depth. Frame thickness, size, according to work contents. Classical painting frame and more wood, plaster, more modern oil painting frame with aluminum and other metal materials.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spanish pronunciation: ['paβlo rwiθ pi'kaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor who lived most of his adult life in France. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; during the first decade of the 20th century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune throughout his life, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th century art.

Oil Painting Techniques

Tools and Materials Oil Painting oil painting drawing techniques result in limited complexity. For centuries, artists have created in practice a variety of painting techniques, painting materials to play a full performance results. Painting the main techniques are:

    ① transparent cover color method, which uses only without the white color of oil dilution by multi-level paint pigments. After each layer must dry the next layer of color, the color of each layer are thinner, the lower the color can vaguely revealed, and the formation of the upper subtle changes of color tone. For example, in the crimson color layer mask painted blue and stable, it will have blue or purple in the cold in the apartment through the wealth effect of the warm, often can not be transferred out of the palette colors. This painting for the performance and solid sense of texture images, in particular, vividly depict the characters can be delicate skin color changes, people feel the blood flowing under the skin the skin. The disadvantage is a narrow color gamut, making the process work fine, a long time to complete the work, the artist is not easy to express real emotions of art.

    ② opaque cover color method, also known as multi-level shading. Paintings, the first major appearance with body color paint, and then use the color multi-level shape, often painted dark thin, middle tone and highlight the thick coating layers, or cover, or leave, the formation of color contrast. Because different thickness, showing the rich colors and texture rhyme intended. Both transparent and opaque painting there is no strict distinction between a painting of the artist often integrated use. Performance at the dark shadow of the images or when covered with a transparent color method can produce stable, deep sense of volume and spatial sense; opaque rules easy to follow color dark shape in a form other than to increase the screen color saturation. Most of the painters before the 19th century painting by both the production time is generally longer works, some unfinished by the long-term placement after layer, until completely dry after the color paint layer.

    ③ an opaque coloring, also known as direct coloring. That is to make images on the canvas after the body contour, with the feeling of the color images or the idea of laying of colors colors, essentially an unfinished, not the right place to go and continue with the painting Daogua color adjustments. This painting pigments in each of the relatively strong dip, color saturation, strokes are more clear, easy-to-time painting a vivid expression of feelings. After the mid-19th century, many artists use this painting more. In order to achieve the color layer after the first full color effect, you must pay attention to the use of gesture that coating, commonly divided into Ping Tu Tu, Tu, and thick powder coating. Ping Tu, the intensity is to use one-way, even gestures drawn to a large area coating color, suitable for smooth and stable in the shape of static body composition; Powder coating is based on the painting refers to the body's natural tendency turning brush, brush strokes compared loose and flexible; thick coating is thick full-size heap or in part, paint, and some form of color layers up to several millimeters or color, texture of the pigment to show the fun, the image has also been strengthened.

    Language as an art, oil painting, including color, shading, line, texture, brush strokes, texture, light, space, composition and many other form factors, the role of oil painting techniques that will be of the form factors to be reflected or focused on the individual to , painting material properties provide adequate grounding in the second plane on the possible use of painting techniques. Oil production process is skilled artists consciously control the painting materials, select and use to express artistic ideas, and form the artistic image of the techniques of the creative process. Paintings express the artist gives both the ideological content, but also demonstrated the unique language of oil painting through the development of the classical, modern, modern several times, suffering from different periods of time painting dominated the art of thinking and techniques of the constraints, showing a different aspect.