Oil painting Art blog by Lucas Art

During the just-concluded National Art Exhibition, Guangdong Eleventh selected entries in the selection of activities, with realism as the main characters sing featuring oil paintings, oil paintings of a group of young artists then come to the fore, created a dramatic landscape. Some people think that: This is the realism of Guangdong as a canvas, following the “Cultural Revolution” after the rise again.

However, as we all know, oil painting with realism, as in the West has experienced more than 300 years after the glory, and finally the late 19th century early 20th century, stepped down from the altar of mainstream art gallery museum, “rest”, as a marginal art form, and in line with the era of the beat The Art of the new ideas, forms of wave after wave came forward emerged.

A wide range of art in this environment, allocation of oil painting in Guangdong this home still adhere to a position as Realism, abandoned by the West as something to treasure on the unthinkable – to explore the road in the painting, this is a step backwards or forward? We pick up what the artist is still in production innovation track? Recently, the press on these controversial topics and present a realism oil paintings, as leader of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, Professor Guo a lot to explore the text. Realism of Western painting as there are nearly 400-year history of depression in the late 19th century trend. Especially in the early 20th century, the West completely abandon the classical realist painting, the art of the establishment of a new system. During that period, if the artists stick to this path, then there is the composition of backward or even be reversed. 50 since the 20th century, full of Western institutions of higher learning, such as installation, video, and other acts of art, like painting basically a teaching and research. Now, even the shelves painting is barely there in the West, Paris Academy of Fine Arts and other important institutions of the basic can not find this as a piece of realism, Rome Academy of Fine Arts to the shelves only three creative painting, which is engaged in painting, as there is only one people. Students just want to be done, no one else has asked. However, there are a number of Western collectors in the sense of nobility to guide people to return to the tradition of realism as to support some artists, Why? Because they believe that there ought to be like painting, but also to permanently down.

In comparison, in China with more than 60 years of history, like painting, the artists have never stopped to explore. It is precisely because they made painstaking efforts, we have a painting like the situation in the ascendant today. Moreover, leaders of contemporary art engaged in the shelves of almost all paintings, even as a painting – Yue Minjun, Fang Lijun, Zhang Xiaogang, Zeng Fanzhi and so on, which is not like a painting? Which is not painting the shelves? Which is not to use the old traditional style of painting to create? China, the many people engaged in abstract painting, can not get out ah! Why did this happen? As a way of painting as the problem can make it clear that in line with the habits of the Chinese people to enjoy, the audience can understand. Therefore, we engaged in a painting is not as backward, but the traditional way of painting to express the feelings of the contemporary.

The past, a painting so that an artist can live forever in people’s minds when a narrower spread painting to the exhibition as an example: Only the National Art Exhibition is the most scholarly, the most authoritative art activities, a Once the pieces of outstanding works in the exhibition generated, can be laid on the Status of the artist’s life. Now is different, the artist can keep a variety of channels to display their works, using various media to promote their works. In this way, the audience only in line with the aesthetic taste of the paintings to be remembered.