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The Meaningful Influence of Realist Oil Painting

After realism, despite the variety of art schools, the realistic approach and its artistic creation methods still developed, only in different forms. Realism is not the only method, but a common method, it and other artistic methods such as symbolism, allegory, deformation, exaggeration, etc., itself can not determine the value of the artwork, to determine the value of a work of art is the depth of their reflection of life. Realism is the artistic technique of realist oil painting, but realist oil painting has more profound connotation than realism. Realist oil painting comes from the "depth of history" of realism, but realist oil painting cannot be equated with realism. Courbet is a representative figure of realism, but realism started from Barbizon School. On the "realism" and realism oil painting, there is a lot of thinking space.