What are the styles and schools of oil painting?

Over the 600 years of development of the art of oil painting, there have been many schools of painting, and I am afraid that there is no other kind of art that can be distinguished from it in terms of the number of schools, styles, and variety of patterns. If you discuss it in detail, it is also a thick book can not be written.

But even though there are many schools of oil painting and various styles, they are basically categorized into the three mainstream schools of oil painting. That is, classicism, impressionism, abstractionism. We will briefly introduce these three main schools.

One, classical oil painting

Classical oil painting school produced and matured in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries of the European Renaissance, is the successful development of oil painting materials after the creation of the first school of oil painting. Classicism emphasizes the "realistic" function of oil painting on objective objects, focusing on the real accuracy of the modeling of the figurative, and is known for its rigorous and dignified style of painting, elegant and graceful. Its representative painters are Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tinto Nieto, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Mills, David, Engel, Courbet, Delacroix, Bouguereau, Gwynedd and so on.

From the fifteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth century, classical oil painting as the mainstream of Western painting, has been the dominant leading the development of Western painting, during this period of time produced by the Florentine school, Venetian school of painting, Baroque, the Dutch small school of painting, Rococo, neo-classicism, Romanticism, critical realism, etc. According to the division of the larger schools belong to the classical oil painting.

Second, impressionist oil painting

Impressionist oil painting was born and matured in the 1870s, in the background of the invention and application of photographic technology came into being. Impressionist oil painting broke the pattern of classical oil painting since the fifteenth century, and in the late nineteenth century, classical impressionism was formed, and impressionist oil painting prevailed.

Impressionist oil painting breaks through the classical oil painting pays great attention to the traditional concept of "realism", focusing on the painter's subjective feelings in the creation of oil paintings, as well as focusing on the changes in light and shadow color in the natural conditions, the use of color is more daring, more colorful, more natural, more varied, and at the same time, the impressionist oil paintings pay more attention to outdoor sketching. At the same time, Impressionist oil paintings pay more attention to outdoor sketching. Its representative painters are Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Sisley, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and so on.

Impressionist oil painting makes a big step forward in the transition of oil painting from classical monism to dichotomy and diversification to modern oil painting, and it is a prelude to the modern oil painting represented by abstractionism.

Three, abstractionist oil painting

Abstractionist oil painting school emerged in the 1930s, is to completely break the oil painting modeling figurative "realistic" tradition, but also different from the impressionist oil painting, but with the abstract stripped of exaggerated and distorted combination of the pattern of the new modern oil painting, had in the mid to late twentieth century, the modern oil painting, and the abstract oil painting, the modern oil painting, the modern oil painting, the modern oil painting, the modern oil painting, the modern oil painting, the modern oil painting, the modern oil painting, the modern oil painting, the modern oil painting, the modern oil painting. In the middle and late twentieth century, the western painting world was popular for a while. Its representative painters such as Picasso.