The aesthetic feeling of oil painting material

Oil painting is a special art language that can not be replaced by other art forms. Its special character and pure meaning make it an indelible contribution to the development of human visual art. The unique charm of oil painting is first reflected in its material. It breaks out of the limitations of fresco, tampera, egg glue painting and other materials and production. With the help of color mixing media, it produces rich light and shade levels and subtle color changes through the overlapping and cover dyeing of superior materials, so as to achieve the purpose of reproducing nature. The material beauty of oil painting is mainly manifested in two aspects: color layer and texture. (1) The beauty of color layer The beauty of color layer refers to the comprehensive aesthetic feeling produced by the interaction of transparent and opaque characteristics in oil painting with multiple painting methods, which is the inherent order and criterion of oil painting color layer. Unlike photographic works that rely on light and shade and color point particles to record the changes of natural levels, it relies on rich color levels and transparent repeated cover dyeing to produce a myriad of different level effects and picture beauty. It is the result of a technique. Through rich color changes, the texture, volume and quantity of the object are magically presented. At the same time, the reproduction of objects and techniques are full of beautiful rhythm. Early oil paintings rely on the bottom layer of monochrome to show the body structure and light and shade levels, the surface layer of transparent color to reveal the inherent color tendency of the object. Later, oil painting developed into a combination of orderly shaping and orderly transparent cover dyeing to produce the aesthetic effect of transparency on color layer and harmony on shape and color, so that the material beauty of oil painting played a permanent charm. (2) The beauty of texture Texture beauty refers to the aesthetic feeling generated by the three-dimensional texture prominent in the picture presented by the special material of oil painting, which is manifested by the thickness accumulation of pigments in the process of brush handling. There is what kind of production and shaping, there is what kind of texture. Therefore, texture is unavoidable in oil painting. Texture has different performance in each stage of oil painting development. The classical period is a kind of texture without ups and downs, the thickness difference of the brush stroke is very small, the beauty of texture is reflected in a subtle, implicit change. With the change of oil painting techniques, texture beauty has become the life consciousness in painting. Wild and free brushwork, dignified and powerful color fluctuations form a shocking power, texture beauty has gradually become the most appropriate visual form for people to express their inner feelings.