After entering the new century, including the visual arts including oil painting faces new environment – on the one hand, high-tech technology and the popularity of digital imaging, into our “image flooding” of the times, life-like images at your fingertips; On the other hand, Drawing on the traditional concept of national reunification, constraints and reducing the teaching of Chinese oil painting in painting and painting value and status. However, practice in the arts, oil painting is still considered a teaching and mastering the process of painting techniques and the basic means necessary, most artists are still painting and artistic creation as an integral part. It is obvious that today’s “Painting” is not the past, “Sketches”, either outside or indoor painting light painting, whether it is inherited Hao, Huang Quan of the painting, or the study of painting impressionist painter, painting purpose, significance and specific methods have undergone profound transformation……
The 17 century, with the Catholic missionaries have been east, Chinese people from the religious figure in the oil painting came into contact with the West; the End of Qing Dynasty, the wide dissemination of Western painting in China, the Chinese artist to draw a number of outstanding creative methods China to enrich the creative portraits, the portrait began to integrate the arts of East and West Road.
Oil painting Portrait as a species has a long history of oil painting, in the East and West, the development of different, mainly due to their different social systems during the period of the constraints and impact. With the West in the fifteenth century, the rise of the Renaissance humanistic thought, the beginning of the value for the recognition and respect for human beings, the resulting custom portrait. The portraits of the all-round development of the West is the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, after the bourgeois revolution, religion and the king’s rule gradually loose after industrialization accompanied by the emergence of merchant class, depicting ordinary people with the rapid development of the portrait. Portrait painting as a very important subject in style, almost every artist have painted portrait……
Chinese oil paintings in the new century, the first face today is the prominent problems brought about by globalization and cultural convergence trend. As a result of the powerful countries in the material and spiritual and cultural products of Western culture caused extensive expansion across the globe, making the country vulnerable after a long history of practice in the formation of culture and cultural patterns and digestion by the exclusion, character and spirit of the pursuit of cultural erosion and assimilation , culture and vitality of living space is gradually lost. At present countries people are from this culture have been created by the convergence of trends has been a single culture is a worldwide cultural crisis, because in the process of economic globalization, the need for regional balance of the diverse culture of human diversity spiritual needs. Maintain and develop regional culture in the era of globalization is important.
Specific to the Chinese oil paintings from the original that is, the West, the school in the West rather than the art of native species, how to face the new situation? How to establish their own art direction? This can not fail to note the two is not new, but in the new situation has highlighted the relevance and role of academic issues, and that is painting the “national character” and “modern” problems.
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