The schools of the oil painting
The oil painting schools were divided into two broad categories. The first creative work was the reproduction of objectivity; the second category based on subjective performance.
In the first category, such as the Baroque, Rococo, classic, college, Romanticism, Realism, realism, photographic realism and impressionism which appeared after the Renaissance were based on natural reproduction to show artists’ different ideas and aims.
Baroque camp -was popular with people in the 17th century to the 18th century. “Baroque” there was the original intent of irregular, twisting, eerie, which highly distorted campaign, the plump body and a sense of volume. Its strong language arts, exaggeration, which are characters of the Baroque paintings, the representative artist is Rubens.
Rococo school – “Rococo” was intended to the shape of shells, its artistic style were for complex, delicate, thin, sweet, and popular in the 18th century, the representative artists were Francois, Buu, and so on.
Classical and Academy - the former based on respect for the classicism of ancient Greece, Rome, the aesthetic principles of composition, symmetry, balance and momentum on the solemn, splendid, exquisite technique, in-depth characterization. This was also long accepted by the colleges. As the founder Facheno said “beauty is the supreme goal of art, it is an objective nature of things, consist of the order, harmony and proportion, which consists of the rules.” The representative writers were Raphael, Ingres, and so on.
Romanticism – Romantic originated in France in the early 19th century, its representative is Ko’s “Raft of the Medusa” in this work, the composition, light, color, dynamic and expression have shown a wealth of imagination of the artists. It broke the classic doctrine of the composition of horizontal and vertical, but with the soft light of the uniform, which made the screen have a passion. This is also an important element of Romantic painting, which pays attention to the vent and expresses their feelings.
Realism – realistic painting refers to the mid-19th century, Miller led the artist to obey the principle of faith to the object as a measurement to show the visual image, then to reflect the essence of life. Miller has its representative of the “Gleaners”.
Realism and photographic realism – realism as its founder Courbet said in 1885: “as i see, honest to reflect customs of the times, and its ideological outlook. In a word, the creation of art is my purpose. ”
Photographic realism was a life-style in the form of photos onto a screen, such as close “John portrait.” It first take photos or make slide shows, then enlarge it with more than 10 times the ratio of the real man, later zoom into the fine cloth, more detailed, more realistic to show the details of the object, such as the face of every trace of fabric and each fine hair on the body, and so on.
Impressionism – in the 19th century Impressionist painters were out of their studio to explore the instant change of nature’s light and color, broke the traditional concept of inherent color, and such as the tree was a blue green, shadow was black, objectively described the impact of the color of the surrounding environment on the inherent color. The behalf artists were Monet, Seurat, Cezanne, Renoir, and so on.
If the above mentioned artists are faithful to the reproduction of nature, they just developed, added, and stressed the theme, following I will introduce the second-largest category, i.e. after the Impressionist, Fauvism, Cubism, futurism, Abstract, surrealism, and so on, they will no longer objectively depicting the true, but according to the artist’s subjective intent to create freely, most of them appear in the later 20th century.
Post-impressionism – post-Impressionist painter stressed the performance of self-feelings and paid attention to color matching and the inner structure of things. The reprehensive artists are Van Gogh, Gauguin, and so on. It had a profound impact on the modern western art.
Fauvism – Fauvism use exaggerated shapes, strong colors, bold lines to express inner passion, Matisse is the founder of the school.
Cubism – School Cubism, the view of the screen is no longer a position, but show thing in all angles aims to restore the object geometry. The founder is the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and France painter Blake.
Futurism – the futurism is in the form of abstract using color, line to show speed, forces, combination and separation.
Abstract – rely on abstract lines, blocks, face, color, as a non-abstract for the portfolio on behalf of the Dutch painter Mengdeeran.
Surrealism – Surrealism painting infected by Bergson’s intuition and theory and Freud’s subconscious, claim for person’s dreams and the subconscious. The behalf are Spanish painter Salvador Dali and Miro.
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