| It is of high aesthetic significance to study ruins theme painting works. Each pair of paintings contain a wealth of emotion and culture of artists. Pictures for our viewing experience can help us analyze the artist’s methods, and get closer to understand the emotions contained in their works. In this paper, it will mainly from point, line, plane, space, dark, light and shadow, stroke, color, emotion, language, symbols, and ruins the nature of relation with human attributes to summarize visual selective characteristics in the ruin theme in contemporary paintings.Ruins of oil painting deliver the artists’ creation intentions to us via visual elements, which contains history memories and future prospects. By comparison of the ruins of paintings and other paintings in terms of visual representation, and from work point on the surface of the line layout and disposal of aesthetic design, color, space, on the use of the rhythm, light and shadow, coordination, and the use of brush and skin texture the aesthetic design of this a few important points, to explore the rhythm of the aesthetic design is how to enhance the visual effect of works of art.We can usually judge the use of line in oil paintings and the inner emotional stimuli by direct perception of images. The artist’s style can be easily found straightly from the picture. When they are drawing an oil painting, the original subject choice and expression method is different, this is also the creation of the creators of starting point. Again through painting and light arrangement of point, line and plane can be fully embody in the emotion of artists’ creation and aesthetic concept. It proves that there are many common points and differences between the subject of ruins and other oil paintings.Historically, oil painting related researches like the stars in the sky, each research has its own emphasize and own innovation. The main point of this paper lies in the visual expression skills and methods of oil painting creation, and constantly refresh art aesthetics, the exploration of the works contains rich emotion. |