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.

Into "China's Dafen Oil Painting Village"

A lot of media coverage through the global, the whole world know that there is a famous suburb of Shenzhen, China's "Dafen oil painting village." Great fun to see where the oil market has formed a considerable scale. Layer of each building are galleries or studios, went on the wall, the door is hung with works of masters of their own creation, copying works and consignment work. Drawing on their side, while the visiting guests. Most people here from the field, many people claiming to be "painters," the villagers of village rental housing, according to art dealers to complete the task orders or accept the contents of the guests of the commission painted oil paintings. And some professional artists in the exhibition gallery where original oil paintings.

It is, at present, where there are all kinds of oil-based operating nearly 700 stores, artists, painters more than 5,000 people. Dafen Oil Painting in order to copy the original oil paintings and works of art based processing, with a painting, calligraphy, crafts, sculpture and picture frames, paint operations, the formation of a oil painting industry circle. Oil sales to Europe, America, Southeast Asia and Africa-based, throughout the world.

As more and more artists, painters stationed in Dafen Village, "large oil painting" has become a famous cultural brand. Has become the world understand China, but also a window to understand China.