The main features of oil painting

The main features of oil painting Oil painting, since the 15th century Netherlands van Eyck brothers improved and perfected the oil dissolve and mix paint painting technology, so that it has become the main western painting, has been popular for hundreds of years in the world. In the early 20th century, a group of Chinese students studying abroad grasped its essence and introduced it to China, making it coexist with the original traditional ink painting. Due to the unique use of materials and tools in oil painting, its ability to express visual beauty is also unique. Can say, the characteristic such as massiness, burnish, calm, texture, multicolored, reflected the main characteristic of unique artistic charm of oil painting exactly. 1. thick Massiness is the expression of rich texture and strong color of oil paint, and it is inevitable that oil painting can withstand layer upon layer addition and repeated accumulation because of coarse linen or thick hard paper as the carrier. It is also the key to the strong expression of oil painting. 2. luster Luster has two kinds of performance: one is to use itself is oily paint or oil painting, picture reflected gloss, or after completion of the works and then coated with a layer of light oil, make the picture appear bright and beautiful and have a glorious, 2 it is to use oil paints can be thin and thick color contrasts, make relevant objects such as metal products, glassware, such as gloss, truthfully. Oil painting shows luster in a way that no other painting can. 3. texture Texture here refers to the different strokes and textures presented on the surface of the picture. Because of the strong plasticity of oil paint, when painting a knife stacked up, the surface of the picture will form a full of knife marks and brush strokes; Because oil painting canvas has its fine different grain again, when using thin besmear method, dry brush method and the method such as cutting with knife, the grain of cloth also showed naturally come out. The texture effect of oil painting is essentially the visual psychological experience formed by the transformation of human tactile perception into the picture.