Chinese and Western painting because of the different pursuit of ideology in the aesthetic field, resulting in great differences in painting performance, our Chinese classical painting art emphasizes "freehand", through the image and beyond the image to express people's feelings, will and inner temperament, the pursuit of a "spiritual harmony".
Francis O'Toole oil painting
The Western classical painting art pursues the true reproduction of things, emphasizes objective objectivity, and pursues the perfect combination of perceptual understanding of objective things and subjective ideal images, which is a kind of "formal harmony" that is completely different from Chinese painting. If Chinese painting is a concerto of dots and ink, then Western painting is a symphony of decency and color.
The most popular classical painting in the Western tradition is the multi-layer transparent painting method, the main feature is the separation of color and shape. Among contemporary Western artists, this technique has always been admired by many avant-garde artists, and the use of different materials to create a new and highly individual artistic language, creating a large number of different styles of art.
Irish artist Francis O'Toole, on the basis of inheriting the traditional techniques of classical painting, generated more inspiration from the application of different materials and a large number of creations, and derived many new techniques.
With the help of a variety of oil paints, he creates a sense of clarity like enamel color through the interpenetration and overlap of transparent and opaque, thick and thin color, and there are subtle changes in the extensive, the picture is more vivid and subtle, creating excellent works with strong classical meaning and modern unique personal style, adding new vitality to traditional classical techniques.
When Francis O'Toole was 17 years old, he nearly died in an industrial accident, and after recovering, he was confused about his future and spent several years in a local underworld organization. His mother did not want to see him sink like this and suggested that he paint. Francis thought it was stupid at first, but in order to reassure his mother to learn to paint, who knew that slowly he fell in love with the art of painting.
Since Francis had never studied art, as he advanced in painting, he found that his foundation in this area was so scarce that he decided to go to Florence, Italy, to learn classical art techniques.
After studying at the École della d'Angelo in Florence for four years, Francis returned to Dublin and used innovative traditional classical techniques to create a large number of works with a highly personal style, which attracted wide attention and received unanimous praise in the industry.
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