The Application Of The Elements Of Chinese Woodcut In Modern Chinese Oil Painting

Chinese Woodcut is one of the significant components of traditional Chinese folkart. It is also a kind of common art form in traditional folk art forms. Its unique artisticlanguage style makes it our precious wealth of the culture of Chinese nation.Traditional woodcut painting embodies the traditional Chinese aesthetics, andwill exerts subtle influence on Chinese Oil Painting, Meanwhile, the language style oftraditional Chinese Woodcut Painting has attracted many contemporary Chinese oilpainters, such as Liu Dahong, Li Tianyuan and GU Liming. They have referred fromthe language style of traditional Chinese Woodcut Painting to some extent. From theirpainting we can see the modern Chinese oil painting has not only used the paintingskills of western countries, but also inherited local culture. The integration of the localwith western ones has added a new way of the development and localization ofmodern Chinese paintings.Comparing our traditional Woodcut Painting with the Oil Painting in westerncountries, our Woodcut Painting has great differences in idea, skills and otherlanguage patterns. However, its decorative aspects have the same effects with OilPainting. Although the color, shape, composition and style have strong nationalcharacteristics and respective local features, its fantastical imagination, auspiciousnessand bold color are consistent with each other. In the study of Chinese WoodcutPainting, we know that the language style is: the pure color but little, line modeling,complication and composition, decoration and subjectivity. Those rich and colorfullanguage styles can widen the vision of modern Chinese Oil Painting, and offerpossibilities of reference.