Basic Understanding Of Chinese Realistic Oil Painting

Realism is an important way of expression in painting，It is widely used at homeand abroad in the artistic creation.In fact, in the development of oil painting, realismis always occupy the mainstream position. Nearly one hundred years, realistic oilpainting has experienced a rapid development in china. Based on the literature study, Ithink oil painting especially realistic oil painting in China has experienced fourimportant stages, and each stage has its development.With studying and understanding of the realistic oil painting, I created the oilpainting " The Memory of History ". In the painting creation practice and observationof related classical paintings, I has two important experience about the realistic oilpainting. The first point is, realistic oil painting in China’s development should payattention to expressing Chinese culture; another point is, the subject of realistic oilpainting should be typical. Make sure that,the subject will be able to show the corevalue or national elements characteristic. Only a good grasp of these two points, andcombined the inheritance of Chinese culture with Western realistic oil paintingtechniques, realism oil painting will get better development.