The development of oil painting in China
Oil paintings is an exotic . If we account it from the 15th century the Holland painter Fan Dake brothers who used grams of powder oil paint to paint as start, so far it has a history of only 600 years. Compared with Chinese painting— the Warring States Bohua which has a long history of 2000 years, it is just a short time. However, only in these hundred years just like short-term developed evolution, we can say that the Western oil paintings has grown different shool of thoughs, a large number of masters, and handed down a broad array works. Today, the Oil paintings has no doubt become an international painting, no other category of art can contend with it.In the area of collections, from a global scale, the Oil paintings is unrivaled in the first.
At the beginning of the 20th century, when Western oil paintings has developed from the late impressionist into the modernist era of the Matisse, picasso, Kandinsky, Mondrian, and so on, . China has a large number of artists who have advanced ideas went to Japan and Western Europe to study oil painting, such as Li Tiefu,Feng Gangbai,Li Yishi, Lin Fengmian,Xu Beihong,Liu Haisu,Yan Wenliang,Pan Yuliang,Pang Xunqin,Chang Shuhong,Wu Dayu,Tang Yihe,etc. After returning country they joined in the new art movement, created a new type of art education, organized various of Art, and organized exhibitions. They formed Xu Beihong as the representative of realist camp, Lin Fengmian, Liu Haisu as the representative of the new School of painting and Pang Xunqin, NI Yide as the representative of the modernist school, the above wrote a pioneer page for Chinese oil paintings’difficult venture.
Along with the surge of the Chinese reform and opening-up, the production of Chinese oil paintings presents a unheard-of prosperousness. Realistic, ultra-realistic, abstract, semi-abstract, classical, pioneer ,new performance, all kinds of schools appears one by one. Different kinds of Oil paintings works with their own characterisitic present at the same time. While in the Oil paintings art market also appeares besides this kind of hot trend. The Oil paintings work starts to enter the common family, the Oil paintings collection community forms gradually, in the artistic market which the people pay attention to day by day, the Oil paintings has found its own position, and is playing a more and more important role.
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