Do you prefer realism or abstraction? Why?

Twenty years ago, I first looked through a collection of classic oil paintings in the university library, and saw Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Raphael's The Virgin Mary, Giorgione's Sleeping Venus, Rubens' Garden of Love, Fountain of Angels, bouguereau's Awakening and Geved's Goddess Athena. ...

I was fascinated by the vivid modeling, colorful colors and rich emotions of oil paintings. Since then, I have loved oil painting, of course, realistic oil painting.

Realistic oil painting is the most traditional oil painting. Since the birth of oil painting in14th century and the Renaissance in Europe, painting artists represented by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael have paid more attention to the figuration and color application of painting on the basis of the original techniques of egg-colored painting, and summarized the basic theories of oil painting, such as sketch is the basis of oil painting and color is the language of oil painting, and created classical realistic oil painting.

Classical realistic oil painting, as the first genre after the appearance of oil painting, has been the main form of western painting from15th century to19th century and 20th century before the appearance of impressionist oil painting and abstract oil painting, which has led the development of western oil painting for more than 400 years and influenced oil painting lovers and appreciators from generation to generation. Until today, realistic oil painting is still the oil painting genre with the greatest influence and the largest audience.

The biggest feature of realistic oil painting is realism, which truly or relatively truly restores the true face of objective images, so it is also called "photography in painting". Realistic oil painting is loved by more and more people because it pays attention to realism, the picture is intuitive, the expression of theme and emotion is relatively true and clear, and it is more in line with people's aesthetic understanding of painting art. It can be said that oil painting can be accepted by people in many countries, blossom and bear fruit all over the world, and become the main kind of painting in the world, thanks to realistic oil painting to a great extent. At the same time, realistic oil painting is also the best interpretation of the sentence that art has no borders.

I believe that the vast number of oil painting lovers have the same feelings as me.