Development history of western oil painting

Western painting The earliest human painting was produced in the late Paleolithic period, and the art of this period lasted for about 10,000 years. Almost all the paintings are concentrated in the last 5000 years of the Paleolithic Age.

That is, from 17000 years ago to 12000 years ago, these oldest pictures drawn on the walls of primitive caves are magnificent and lifelike, which can be called naturalistic masterpieces.

The murals in Lascaux Cave in France and altamira Cave in Spain are outstanding representatives of the differences between western painting and modern painting, and they are also reflected in their different attitudes towards so-called reproduction. For traditional painting, representation is fundamental, and it can also be said that it is the basic goal of western traditional painting. Although compared with modern painting, the characteristic of western traditional painting is reproducibility.

The acceleration of industrialization has made this century a colorful century of change. With this "east wind", western art broke through the reproduction tradition and classical style established in the Renaissance and embarked on the road of modern art. At this time, the schools were neoclassicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism and post-impressionism.

Classical and anti-classical are the two main streams of western traditional painting art. Classical interest emphasizes rationality, and its formal characteristics are especially manifested in attaching importance to sketch and ignoring color. Anti-classicism is keen on emotion. Unlike classicism, it does not pursue the classical meaning of solemnity, silence, simplicity and harmony, but emphasizes the spirit of freedom and indulgence, which is magnificent and full of energy.

It is fully manifested in baroque and romantic art, the former shows the response to the classical taste of Renaissance, and the latter shows the incompatibility with neoclassicism. Another feature of western traditional painting is that it attaches importance to description. For a long time, painters have always regarded it as their task to effectively express stories and legends and describe specific plots to express certain meanings or symbols.

This description is also fully reflected in the Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Anofini by Yang Van Ike, which are the two main streams of western traditional painting art. Classical taste emphasizes rationality, and its formal characteristics are especially manifested in attaching importance to sketch and ignoring color; Anti-classicism is keen on emotion. It does not pursue the classical meaning of solemnity, tranquility, simplicity and harmony like classicism.

Italy is the center of the Renaissance. In the early14-15th century, painters Giotto and Ma Saqiao combined humanism with realistic description of nature. Although they still show signs of rigidity, they show a different realistic style from the Middle Ages. From the end of 15 to the middle of 16, painters reached an agreement on authenticity and elegance.

1520- 1590' s hand-painted artists don't care about the expression of the content of their works, but give great enthusiasm to the formal factors, keen to express distorted posture, strange perspective and gorgeous colors, which reflect the interest different from the classical aesthetic spirit of the Renaissance.

In addition, the Renaissance paintings in Holland, Germany and France also combined Italian style with local tradition, creating their own painting style-Western painting. Another characteristic of western traditional painting is to emphasize description. For a long time, painters have been effectively expressing stories and legends and depicting specific plots to express some meaning or symbol.

The first time was during the Renaissance, and the second time was in France in the17th century. The academic art represented by Pu Sang and its ideological trend are specifically referred to as classical art, and the classicism popular in France from the end of18th century to the beginning of19th century is called neoclassicism, which emphasizes the formal structure and is a major school of modern painting. Cubist painters are willing to sacrifice reproduction for structure.

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Although China's oil paintings were imported from the West, it doesn't mean that China's oil paintings were copied from the West. The beauty of oriental women is completely different from that of western women. Don't open your eyes and say that China's oil paintings are not as good as western oil paintings. Appreciating the art of different regions is not only to see with eyes, but also to distinguish with brain and feel different artistic conception with heart.

The difference between Chinese and Western oil paintings In terms of classical style, China's oil paintings are doing, painting and grinding, while the west is painting. As the Spanish proudly said: European painters all learn techniques from Veracruz, which shows that there are differences between painters and painters in realm techniques.

Not to mention a large number of masters such as Rembrandt, Goya and Vermeer, China's oil paintings still have a long way to go to catch up with them. There is western culture in the west, and their paintings also reflect western culture everywhere. Their religious, cultural and social backgrounds are real, and so are China's, religious and cultural backgrounds and institutional problems!

After all, it is the product of the great era background! Relatively more in line with the aesthetic of the times!

The biggest difference between China's oil painting and western oil painting is the difference of the creators' ideas. For example, there is a realistic oil painting of an old farmer's father in China's oil painting, which reveals a strong reflection on China's traditional culture. However, the emphasis expressed by the same family theme in western oil paintings is different.

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Baidu encyclopedia-western painting