The development of Chinese Oil Painting
Chinese oil paintings has started appearing on the stage of artwork auction since 20 century 90s. Chen Yifei and Wu Guanzhong were the most famous among all artists. The knockdown price of Chen’s Oil paintings ‘Hilly Wind’ and ‘the Left Appeal of Xunyang’ were separately 2.68 million and 1.375 million Hongkong Dollar, while Wu Guanzhong’s ‘Montmartre Highland’ was 0.845 Hongkong Dollar. As these facts, some people may just think it as lucky special cases, but from oanother side, at least they reflect oil painting’s position in modern artwork collecting world and the whole art market.
Recently, there are many powerful painter who have profound artistic attainments and market potential active in art market, such as Luo Zhongli, Chen Yanning, Zhou Chunya, Mao Yan, Chang Qing, Yang Feiyun, Liu Xiaodong, Pang Maokun, Xia Junna, Lin Qingqing and etc. Although the price of their works is not so expensive, they gained their stable position in art market through works with high quality, high taste, thus they still been paid attention to by collecters. And those had already gained evalutaion, the old generation oil painters, such as Wu Zuoren, Sha shi, Chang Yu, Qi Shangyi, Zhan Jianjun, Quan Shanshi, Zhu Naizheng, Chen Junde and etc, the price of their works are even increasing with assurance.
The tendency that Chinese oil paintings has become hotter in art market, this can also be approved by the great yearly art fair. The art fair positions with its systematical operation and objective value orientation and quality, provides a more equal channel for artworks transaction for collecters. As to nowadays’ consumption state that masscult article elements are extrusive but difficult to make everyone feel satisfied, it is undoubtedly a kind of art market mode that full with attraction. The Shanghai Art Fair, from 1997 to 2000, the quantity of oil painting’s proportion in all works in exhibition was 35% in the first year increased by 65% in the fourth year, and became the full deserve leading role of art fair.
At present, in the Chinese art market, the price of Oil paintings is obvious higher than Chinese painting by and large. As to this we can find a lot of reasons, such as the period of painting Oil paintings is longer, more easier to collect, and their price has an international system for reference and so on. But in the last analysis, different kind of art works cannot be compared with. Here need to say is, for collecters, the more investment the more risk, at the same time the more compensation for risk. An Oil paintings with real artical value and market potential, besides as an morphological Oil paintings that endowed with anatomy, perspective, color, light and shade, line, strokes and all kinds of elements and the specific language of oil painting, the most important things are unique painting style and aesthetic view of painters. And whether can hold these elements correctly is a stone that can test a collecter’s quality of art appreciation and discerning of investment decision-making.
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