The most important component painting - oil painting

Oil painting is the painting of the important species; it is the painter quality paints in oil cloth, wood, made of thick paper and draw pictures on the walls. It is produced in Europe, the 12th century, the Nordic countries and the artists began to paint research tune up oil painting. After 14, 15-century Netherlandish painter Van Dyke Brothers after the improvement and widespread adoption of practice, and gradually form a unique genre.

Oil has three characteristics: First, rich colors, and strong performance, the performance can be fully the complexity of visual objects and characters that make them the true color level of three-dimensional; second, great hiding power pigment, depicting a more free and easy to modify; Third, the oil dry solid durable, easy to change color and become moldy, to facilitate long-term preservation. Renaissance, painting has become popular in Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Germany, to replace the traditional blending pigments to create egg white egg white painting. 18, 19 century, the painting gradually in the United Kingdom, France, Russia and other countries develop and become the overriding European paintings in the main painting. , The British pilot who invented the oil paint tin tube loading method, this easy to carry oil paints for artists is a big convenience, to promote faster development of oil painting.

Because oil is rich in expression, was introduced from Europe to the East, the world of painting prevalent painting. Oil was first introduced to China in the Qing Dynasty; a group of missionaries will be good at painting the painting to China. However, the Qing government conservative, and rejection of Western culture, oil painting has not been circulating in China. Until the Qing Dynasty, and even the "May Fourth" before and after the oil was gradually taking root in China. Today, the painting is not only very popular, and oil painting in the world that has a very high level.