Oil painting Art blog by Lucas Art

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.
The portrait of the development in China is relatively late, after several twists and turns, it can be said is still not yet developed a variety. Feudal society in China’s long-term era of imperial rule, the history of the portrait is a portrait of the emperor, uncommon for ordinary people face day-to-day. After the Revolution, despite the strengthening of democracy and freedom, but Chinese society in a very long time are still in turmoil, the break of the war led to social instability, slow economic development, a lack of respect for human beings and concern, even more difficult to talk about portraits.
New China, the portrait is still in quite a long time low, mainly because the community does not advocate portraits, portraits there is no market. The painting was the mainstream form of revolution in the history of painting is reflected in social life and custom painting. National attention has spent great efforts in the history of the revolution in painting, and financial support; respect and promotion of art theory to reflect the working life. Leaders and workers, peasants and soldiers heroes of the revolution as a major theme of the portrait. Groups at that age is important, the individual is not important. Remove the same artistic style as a leader, a true portrait is not taken seriously, and there is a period portrait and landscape, still life works are not important.
China’s development is the true portrait after the eighties. With the reform and opening up to change the social and economic life, China’s literary and artistic approach has changed, advocates letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools contend. The people’s prosperity and cultural life has been improved, the development of portraiture entered a new period of more mature. Figures or in terms of light, color use, or to our contemporary life and the spirit of people have demonstrated a grasp on the independence and autonomy. Reflect the true market economy, respect for human society. At the end of the eighties to the nineties is a portrait of the development of the fastest, the best of times, many artists have painted portraits, a number of portraits by the artist more as the main direction of artistic creation. A new generation of artists to further develop the language of painting portraits, whether paintings or oil paintings have appeared in various forms of portrait-style creation. Portrait of the composition, style tends to the complex, bringing together a variety of ways, from performance artist character’s face and the inner world of people feel the concept of symbolic integration, portraits has gone beyond the species itself into the figure of the areas of Creation .
Portraits in the West has continued with the performance of two different forms, based on the performance of a target’s personality, emotional thinking, the objective of experience, a portrait of the so-called realism. West from the Renaissance to the seventeenth century after the formal portraits, commissioned Lars is open, Rembrandt, Van Dyke portrait painters, such as performance targets are mainly targeted at the main screen emotions, personality, etc., of course,portrait is very important. Russia’s oil paintings, especially portraits, Repin,斯科伊Akram and other works are based on the performance of client-oriented, but also showed a profound character’s personality and his experience; the second is the symbolic, This portrait is a modernist painting, Modigliani, where there are a lot higher portraits, portraits based on the author’s own artistic style and mood and emotion portrayed resonance object-oriented, and the authenticity of the object in the second spaces. After the Cultural Revolution, China’s portraits also are two basic forms, the latter more common on the one hand, to the author’s personal style but also the object-oriented real.
Taking a panoramic view of Western art, which are described the main people, portrait is the most basic things which, until modern art remains the same; the current European painting, though a small shelf, but is still the object of art in social life and people; and from the Chinese painting history, and other countries is that quite a long time painting depicting the theme of landscapes and flowers and birds, are very important theme. Although the figure has flourished in the Tang Dynasty, but in the future with the rise of landscapes and flowers and birds and decline.
Modern art in the West, the result of photography, conceptual art and so on, the traditional form of portraiture has been in a weak position, but the West is already quite mature portraits system developed through the accumulation of hundreds of years, already has a large number of masterpieces, portraits; and China’s portraits relatively short history, from less than one hundred years of feudal society, but as China’s economic development, “people-oriented” concept proposed, the concerns of the people is the future of the main topics for a long time, especially for the survival of the state of people concerned about the portrait of the mission so far in China, to the end of time. This is our difference with the West, and our theory of artistic creation and artistic research must be development stage of Chinese society and the state of the current combination of academic research is meaningful.
Whether it is contemporary Chinese oil painting portrait painting or creation are very active, and we are really talking about “themselves” a most interesting times, it was the best of an era of free play, so the portraits in a variety of painting to explore “the theme of human “is very useful to the artist who is interested in subject matter.
Based on China’s cultural factors, portraits in China can absorb the contents of the rich than in the West, and left us to explore the very wide path.
The older generation have the painting home to a profound traditional Chinese culture based on the positive things to explore the integration of portraits. Mr. Xu Beihong painting portraits in the early years of Chinese traditional culture into the aesthetic spirit of profound understanding, his painting , the use of the composition of Chinese painting methods work fresh and clean, full of rhyme Misty China; Wu Zuoren Mr. painting created in 1954, “Qi as” the use of portraits of ancient Chinese form of the use of flat, small freehand way language is perfect blend of the perfect portrait of what works. The early sixties, Mr. Dong Xiwen in Tibet a number of oil paintings portrait painting works of art based on traditional Chinese art of integrated literacy, Mr TUNG into portrait painting in the style of China. His classic painting “founding ceremony” is a historical painting is portraits works, including integration of traditional Chinese art forms are very distinct characteristics.
We study portraits, especially the depth of Chinese painting and oil painting learn from each other to explore some absorption would make the country house painters and painting are more mutual concern and a serious rethinking of the development in practice in order to create a the form of novel, with vitality, stirring works of art to come.
Today, the rapid socio-economic development, led to the development of modern art. Portrait as a very ancient species how to fit the aesthetic needs of modern society? How the form of portraits to reflect the contemporary social and spiritual life of contemporary people? There are many in the creative needs of our thinking, especially how to better the essence of Western painting and Chinese mastered the traditional art is an important issue left for us.