Oil Painting is a precious heritage left to us by human history. With its unique charm, it greatly enriches the visual and spiritual world of human beings, and also greatly inspires people's artistic aesthetics and ideological realm. Oil Painting has reached an unprecedented aesthetic realm in the exploration of reproducing natural beauty, ideal beauty and formal beauty.
(1) Reproduce the beauty of nature
Human beings progress and develop through continuous understanding and communication with nature, and art as human ideology is inextricably linked with nature. The ability of painting to reproduce nature is gradually perfected along with the development of human civilization and technology. The emergence of Oil Painting has made a big step forward in the depth of the reproduction of nature in the entire history of painting. The ability of Oil Painting to create the illusion of three-dimensional space and the degree of realism, richness and depth of natural objects are far beyond other types of painting. Painters use superb Oil Painting skills to effectively create the beauty of nature and the beauty of human spirit.
(2) The beauty of ideals and forms
The ideal beauty in art is a kind of beauty that conforms to people's subjective wishes after refining and standardizing the natural beauty. The standardized expression form of ideal beauty is formal beauty. The reproduction of nature and the pursuit of ideal beauty in Oil Painting go hand in hand. Classical Oil Painting pays attention to the balance between reality and ideal, and is a standardized reflection of human aesthetic feelings. It pays attention to well-proportioned proportions, smooth lines, round shapes, harmonious colors, and elegant sentiments. At the same time, the ideal beauty also changes with the changes of the times and the differences in the personalities of artists. In addition to the stylized beauty, there is also the bold and gorgeous ideal beauty of the Baroque style, as well as the simple and heavy natural beauty. The pursuit of ideal beauty brings about the excavation of formal beauty. In the late stage of Oil Painting development, the main purpose is to explore the beauty of form. The improvement of Oil Painting techniques makes the change of form colorful, so that the Oil Painting works have a variety of appearances.
