Who is the inventor of oil painting?
The oil painting is wonderful. However, few people know the inventor of oil painting.
Using oil to paint has been tried in the Byzantine era. According to the records, this painting will not dry exposed under the sun for a few months. In 1200, the monk Francis Ross wrote a dissertation called “a variety of art forms” on the painting. In this paper, he introduced the usage of Linseed Oil and the Arab resin. At the end of the thirteen century, there were paintings similar to oil painting in the British Isles. At the end of the fourteen century, the two painters Van Eyck brothers in the Netherlands who used the oil to melt pigment created pure oil painting. Although art historians cannot conclude that the Van Eyck brothers are the inventors of oil painting, they found an ideal oil-based painting at the basis of previous experiments.
Many experts think that their greatest achievement is putting the resin into the oil so that the writing can be flowing and dry quickly. The first one who studied and mastered the techniques of oil painting painter in Italy is Antonueuo De Messina (1430-1479). It was said that he taught the usage of oil painting in Venice after he learnt the Van Eyck brothers’ painting techniques in the Netherlands. Then oil painting became popular as an independent painting in Europe.
For hundreds of years, oil painting are further developed and improved after the succession of generations and the creation of the artist. The oil painting has been the periods of the classical, modern and contemporary. The painting in different times is being affected by the domination of the different art ideological and the constraint of techniques, showing a different feature.
From the information above, we can see the long history of oil painting.
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