What are the similarities and differences between Classical Realistic Oil Painting and Contemporary Hyperrealistic Oil Painting?

Oil painting is the main type of painting in the world today. Classical realistic oil painting and contemporary hyper-realistic oil painting are two important schools of painting produced in different periods during the development of oil painting, and they are the most popular forms of oil painting with the largest number of practitioners and the greatest influence on the audience.

When it comes to classical realistic oil paintings, people will think of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Raphael's Madonna and Child, Giorgione's Sleeping Venus, Rubens's Soil and Water, Engel's Fountain, Bouguereau's Birth of Venus, Gwyneth's Goddess of Athena, and so on.

When it comes to hyper-realistic oil paintings, people will think of Mashnikov's Standing, Morimoto Kusuke's Jade Lady, Yang Feiyun's Girl in Front of Still Life, Xie Chuyu's Tao, Leng Jun's Little Ginger, Su Xin's New Twelve Goddesses of Flowers, and so on.

Based on the historical origin and the development of reality, there are some similarities as well as some differences between Classical Realistic Oil Painting and Contemporary Hyperrealistic Oil Painting.

One, the similarities between classical realistic oil painting and contemporary hyper-realistic oil painting

(1) Both belong to the category of "realistic" oil painting

The so-called "realistic" is to reproduce and restore the image of the modeling with the scientific realism, refinement and rigor. The so-called "realism" is to reproduce and restore the true appearance of the depicted objective objects with scientific truthfulness, fine and rigorous modeling figurations. It can be said that "realism" is the basic creative principle and core principle of classical realistic oil painting and hyper-realistic oil painting.

(2) Both belong to the traditional academic style

Both insist that drawing is the basis of modeling. They advocate rationality and reject subjectivity. Focus on scientific and rigorous modeling means and precise and delicate strokes to depict objective objects. In terms of coloring, they emphasize and pursue the harmony and unity of painting expression color and natural color.

(3) both in the creation of the subject matter are mainly characters

Classical realistic oil painting and hyper-realistic oil painting and a **** the same point, that is, in the creation of the subject matter are mainly depicted characters. Most of the works are based on people as the theme or as the main body. Figure painting, portrait painting, and human body painting account for more than 90% of classical realistic oil painting and hyper-realistic oil painting.

The difference between classical realistic oil painting and contemporary hyper-realistic oil painting

(1), the two are produced in different times

Classical realistic oil painting is the earliest form of oil painting expression along with the production of oil painting.In the 15th century, on the basis of the original tempera paintings, Europe has successfully developed a kind of new type of painting material which is made of easy-to-dry vegetable oils and colors, i.e. oil painting material. That is, the oil painting material, this material in painting has the advantages of stable shape and color can be overlapped and smeared, to the painting of the "realism" provides a material favorable conditions.

This was during the Renaissance period, when painting artists represented by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, Titian, etc. applied scientific principles such as perspective, light and shadow, color, human anatomy, etc., according to the characteristics of the material of oil paintings to the creation of oil paintings, and put forward the basic principle of creating oil paintings with scientific, rigorous, realistic and accurate modeling to restore and reproduce the objective object's original appearance and the principle that drawing is the basis of the art of modeling and painting. The theory that sketching is the foundation of the plastic arts was put forward, and a large number of realistic oil paintings were created, creating an example of realistic oil painting. This period of realistic oil painting was later called the beginning of classical realistic oil painting.

Super-realistic oil painting, also known as photographic oil painting, arose and emerged in the 1960s, is in the inheritance of the basic principles of classical realistic oil painting and the basic techniques based on modern technical means such as borrowing photographic more focus on oil painting "realistic" forms of painting expression.

(2), the two produced by the background and experience of different times

Classicalism realistic oil painting was produced in the European Renaissance in the 15th century. As soon as it came into being, it was widely welcomed for its true and vivid image and realistic picture performance. From the very beginning, it became the mainstream of oil painting. From the 15th century to the middle of the 19th century for more than 400 years, it has dominated and led the development of western oil painting art. During this period, there were many famous schools of painting and schools of classical realistic style, such as the "Florentine School" and "Venetian School" in the 15th and 16th centuries, the "Baroque Art" in the 17th century, the "Baroque Art" in the 17th century, and the "Baroque Art" in the 17th century. "style school", "Dutch small painting school" in the 17th century, "Rococo art" style school in the 18th century, "neoclassical" art style school in the 19th century, etc. These styles of art, such as these Art style schools, these schools and schools of painting belong to the classical realistic oil painting expression, and in various different periods of time to create the splendor of realistic oil painting art.

In the middle of the 19th century, due to the invention and application of photographic technology, impressionism and abstractionist oil painting, classical realistic oil painting once declined, but in the middle of the 20th century after the re-emergence of the current is still one of the main schools of oil painting and one of the main forms of expression of oil painting.

Super-realistic oil painting emerged in the 1960s, in the popularization of photographic technology, impressionist oil painting and abstract oil painting, classical realistic oil painting is not what it used to be under the background of Europe and the United States took the lead to start, and soon became popular in the world. Although the development of ultra-realistic oil painting is only a few decades, but because it follows the basic principles of realistic painting, and in the "realistic" on the more subtle and delicate and realistic, in line with the traditional aesthetic habits, has a wide range of many fans, is currently in the ascendant, the prospect is relatively optimistic.

(3), the focus of the two in the picture performance is different

Classical realistic oil painting and hyper-realistic oil painting, although both are "realistic" as the principle, both focus on modeling the real realism of the figurative, both to the traditional realistic techniques as a means of creation, but the two in the picture performance of the focus is different. Classical realistic oil painting focuses on the "realism" of the picture, and at the same time pays attention to the expression of the theme of the painting's ideological connotation, and pursues the unity of the picture's form and content. Comparatively speaking, hyper-realistic oil painting pays more attention to the details of the picture, in order to achieve or even exceed the "clarity" of high-definition photos. In other words, hyper-realistic oil painting pays more attention to the use of "realistic" techniques, and is inferior to classical realistic oil painting in terms of mining and expanding the theme of thought and emotion in oil painting.

In short, classical realistic oil painting and hyper-realistic realistic oil painting because of its biggest **** the same characteristics are "realistic", the picture is real and intuitive, vivid image, easy to understand, in real life have a wide range of audience base and social base.