How to leisurely appreciate oil paintings

When an oil painting comes into the audience’s eyes, the first thing they see is the overall layout and composition of the painting. As one of the most important forms of painting language, composition plays a key role in the success or failure of the work. The composition of a painting should conform to the aesthetic requirements and philosophical principles. While meeting the aesthetic needs of the audience, it also conveys a certain kind of thought. The audience can get different feelings of calm, stability, tilt, depression or surprise from different compositions.

Content is the information that a piece of work wants to express and convey, which is also the most direct way of communication between the appreciator and the painter. According to what the picture depicts, whether it is vivid or not, and what implied meaning the image should convey, it is easy to understand the painter’s emotions.

Because of the rich color of oil painting, it is called “symphony in painting”. Therefore, the use of color in a good oil painting is just like a good song that can arouse the audience’s resonance. It can bring people into a mysterious state where are filled with elegance, solemnity, depression, or excitement, etc.

A good oil painting must have its own uniqueness in the use of light in the picture.

The brushwork describes the painter’s emotion and aesthetic preference, and can sharply show the aesthetic taste of different times. The artistic attainments of oil painters are embodied in the brushstrokes of oil paintings. This is a long-term accumulation and cultivation process, and it cannot be accomplished overnight.

When objects of the same color and different materials appear in the same picture, they are mainly distinguished by the material of the object. For the performance of materials, different painters have different processing methods and painting techniques.

Through the analysis and introduction of the above aspects, I believe that you have already had a certain foundation for the appreciation and evaluation of oil painting works. Of course, it is not easy to appreciate and judge the artistry and artistic value of oil paintings, which requires a lot of knowledge learning and accumulation.