Some people say that "realism" is the school of painting that best reflects the creative will of painters and the artistic value of oil painting, what do you think?

Objectively speaking, from the fifteenth century oil painting to the first half of the nineteenth century, in a long period of nearly 500 years, the "realism" represented by classicism has always been the mainstream of the development of oil painting, and it is also the school of painting that best reflects the creative will of painters and the artistic value of oil painting. This point can be fully proved from a large number of classical realistic oil paintings handed down by the Renaissance masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, Titian, Tinto Nieto, etc., Rubens, Rembrandt, etc., in the seventeenth century, Goya, Collier, Vien, etc., in the eighteenth century, and Angell, Courbet, Delacroix, Bugello and so on in the nineteenth century!

But when the nineteenth century, the invention and application of photographic technology, followed by impressionist oil painting abstractionist oil painting one after another, realistic oil painting for a long time "domination of the world" pattern was broken, since the art of oil painting into a realistic, impressionistic, abstract parallel development of the diversified era. "Realism" is no longer the only mainstream of oil painting, and we can't say that "realism" is the school of painting that best reflects the painter's will to create and the artistic value of oil painting, we can only say that realism is an important form of expression of oil painting or an important school of oil painting. It can only be said that realism is an important form of expression of oil painting or an important school of oil painting.

Art is dynamic and developing, and art is never static. Art always develops with the development of the society and the times, and changes with the changes of the society and the times, and the artist's creative will and the embodiment of artistic value also follow the society and the times. In today's world, traditional "realism" oil painting can reflect the artist's creative will and the value of oil painting, while abstract oil painting and non-traditional modern oil painting can also reflect the artist's creative will and the artistic value of oil painting.

For example, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and Engel's "Spring" are classic realistic oil paintings, which fully reflect the painter's will to create and the artistic value of oil paintings, while Picasso's "Guernica" and Munch's "The Scream" are classic abstract oil paintings and modern oil paintings, which also fully reflect the painter's willingness to create, and also reflect the artistic value of oil paintings.