| With the expansion of China’s urbanization process,cities not only bring people a comfortable and convenient living environment,but also constantly change people’s understanding of the present and the future.Urban themes have also become one of the important themes in oil painting creation.Many works either express neon flashing,high-rise buildings,or miscellaneous noise,crowds,or beautiful fashion and dazzling.Different works show different perspectives of artists and different understandings of urban life.The subway,as a representative facility in the process of urbanization,not only means the modernization level of urban development,but also becomes a "rainbow" of urban scenery.It represents not only the speed,convenience,and the scale of urban development,but also the transformation of lifestyle and the improvement of quality of life.This article starts from the conceptual definition of the urban theme,studies the classification,expression form and humanistic significance of urban elements in the creation of the oil painting of the theme,and takes the subway as the starting point to study the primary and secondary character shaping,light,character and environment relationship processing and expression form,and a variety of painting materials in the theme.And learn from excellent works to explore the way and spiritual connotation of conveying emotions and aesthetic intentions in the creation of the subway-this urban theme element,and discuss the parallelism and extension of creative themes and creative methods in the context of the development of the times. |