What kind of oil painting can win the praise of the vast majority of viewers at the same time? So how can you create a commendable oil painting as a painter?
These seemingly simple 2 questions have actually been bothering oil painting lovers or painters who really want to create with their hearts.
A complete oil painting is inseparable from the four elements of "composition, color, line, light and shadow" (of course, the foundation of sketching is also very important),
The composition is to highlight the theme of the painting, and the painting with a distinct theme of the main body can be instantly transmitted to the viewer the content to be expressed in the whole painting and the meaning of the reflection, which is like the central idea of an article.
The color lines and light and shadow are used to shape the morphological characteristics of people and things in the picture, and realize the meaning effect of "things in the painting".
That kind of self-amusement, similar to the "emperor's new clothes" picture, is meaningless, even if it is auctioned off for hundreds of thousands of yuan, it is a shame, for art.
As an oil painting enthusiast, I often think that a complete oil painting is like a novel or movie with a rich storyline.
Every detail in the painting has the necessity of existence, it is a relationship of interconnection, the most important thing is that there is a distinction between primary and secondary, an excellent painting, will not paint snakes, there is no defect, but there is suspense,
Of course, painters often use anthropomorphic techniques to create the suspense of the picture, so they can win the praise of the vast majority of viewers.
The reason why "the vast majority" is used is because some people have low aesthetic ability.
If you don't know how to appreciate a painting for the time being, you naturally don't know what kind of painting is good and what kind of painting is bad, and you won't praise it.
For example, although the genius painter Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is a masterpiece, there are still a very few people who think that it is very general and there is no need to praise, so things about aesthetic ability cannot be forced.
How can a painter create an admirable oil painting? To answer this question in detail, it is a long story,
I will briefly illustrate that contemporary painter Liu Xiaodong has a very special creative habit, and this habit has accompanied him for decades.
It is precisely because of this habit that his oil paintings can always be praised by fellow painters and viewers.
We all know that "sketching" is the most basic requirement for creating as a painter, to experience life in real life, to seek color inspiration in nature, which is called "sketching",
Its purpose is to assist in creation, of course, "sketching" originally belongs to creation, but many painters or painting enthusiasts, "sketching" as a play, aimlessly wandering and watching flowers,
However, Liu Xiaodong will "sketch" before each creation, and more importantly, he will record the entire process of sketching himself in the form of a diary.
What is seen, thought, and understood, that is, what is thought, what is seen, heard, and felt, is written out and described in the form of a diary or prose.
Between the lines, he expresses his attitude and feelings about people, things, and scenes, emotional emotions, and then picks up a paintbrush to create in front of people and things.
Before the creation, Liu Xiaodong's mind has already formed a complete picture scene, he presents the complete picture in his mind one by one through brushes and colors.
So orderly and reasonable, the primary and secondary are clear, so writing a diary has become Liu Xiaodong's creative habit, he is through the diary to sort out his thoughts, auxiliary oil painting creation,
Liu Xiaodong's oil paintings are roughly divided into two styles: realistic and abstract.
It is worth noting that his abstraction is not extremely abstract, but tends to be realistic, that is, with a trace of realism, most of the details of the whole picture are abstract,
Just as "post-impressionism" has abstract elements of "modernism", of course, Liu Xiaodong's painting style is not "post-impressionism" or "modernism".
Chen Danqing, a famous contemporary painter, once commented on Liu Xiaodong: "Liu Xiaodong uses realistic brushstrokes to describe the characters of the moment.
Painting is very powerful, worldwide, painting characters so good, so powerful, I can't see who is alive now, Liu Xiaodong is undoubtedly a genius in the Chinese contemporary painting world, which makes me hopeless."
In fact, Chen Danqing's evaluation of Liu Xiaodong is somewhat exaggerated, Liu Xiaodong uses realistic brushstrokes to describe the current characters, which is beyond doubt, but it is still far from the achievement of genius.
Take Liu Xiaodong's oil painting "Portrait of Lin Chiling" for example, and I don't see how realistic the brushstrokes of the picture are.
And the whole character modeling appears to be very flat, there is no clear sense of space three-dimensionality; from the perspective of the tone effect, this seems to be the painting style of Chinese painting, or Liu Xiaodong uses the elements of Chinese painting to express the oil painting figures, but it is not exactly like this, but it is only a little similar.
If there is anything special about Liu Xiaodong's women's oil painting "Portrait of Lin Chiling", it is that the woman in the painting has a plump posture, and Liu Xiaodong uses the "celebrity effect", so that the painting "Portrait of Lin Chiling" was auctioned for 16 million yuan.