Realistic Oil Paintings On The “Impressionistic” Understanding

Realistic painting plays an important part in the formation and development of Western paintings. Likewise, realistic painting has always occupied a dominant position in the mainstream discourse during the localization of Chinese oil painting.Research shows that oil painting in the history of Western art and Chinese painting are in fact similar to each other. The technique of painting in the Renaissance and Neoclassical Period resonates with that of Chinese realistic painting, Chinese paintings "express one’s noble feelings", while Western oil paintings "show the emotion"; Chinese paintings emphasize "pen and ink", while Western painting the "brushwork and skin texture." The evolution from realistic to impressionistic painting was seen in the development of both Chinese painting and Western oil painting. Under the influence of Chinese humanism,a complete set of pen and ink language system was formed for Chinese freehand painting. Due to the different backgrounds for development, Chinese freehand painting is different from traditional Western oil painting in terms of realistic work. Chinese painting is not to make natural depictions of external objects, but to simplify and make subjective transformation. Then a picture full of abstract meanings is produced through a somewhat abstract and programmed ink language, which, as a result, does not contain a specific image.Realistic oil painting is a quite preferred painting of the author because of her own life experience. And the author attempts to blaze her new ideas on the basis of realistic painting in her graduate work through personal creative practice. The innovation will not just be in the form, but also in aspects, such as brushwork, skin texture, and morphology, during which the author intends to practice and learn from experience the free style in realist painting, know more about and study the performance of freehand painting in realistic painting.The integration of the free style is one development and continuation based on the realistic painting practice, and at the same time, freehand painting presents exactly how the painter’s emotion changes, with distinct emotional characteristics and creative expression. As a painter, one should constantly bring forth new ideas and incorporate his personal life experience into the work while inheriting the essence of traditional Chinese paintings, so as to unhesitatingly convey the feelings expressed in the painting by way of gaining experience through continuous study and practice.