What is the layered beauty of classical oil painting?

Antique color, antique and elegant, dignified and graceful, light and simple is the key to reflect the classical beauty of oil paintings.

Ancient color is the basic tone. Where the classical beauty of oil paintings are all antique colors, there is no other. Bright colors. Fashionable can only go to the opposite.

Ancient curvature is the classical beauty of oil painting is characterized. Oil painting is from life, higher than life, simple and elegant is the basic conditions of life. Shimezhuang Yongyong is a typical feature of classical beauty of oil painting.

The classical beauty of all art is related to the classical character style, classical furnishings and classical clothing.

Lightness and simplicity are a kind of cultivation and habit of ancient artists, and the ancients regard simplicity as beauty.

Simple but not simple. Simplicity is a great beauty, the elephant is invisible, great beauty is silent, the beauty of classical oil painting is a silent beauty.

To reflect the classical beauty of oil painting works of art, in the creation of the composition can tend to be static, focusing on sketching and color tends to be cold tone,

This is easy to understand, sketching is the basis of oil painting, it can standardize the coordination of the structure of the object proportion, the painter in the creation of the lines can be made clean, modeling leveling, and the static composition is more strict, the cold tones appear to be simple, so that The depiction of the figure is elegant.

Or you can depict a model wearing a cheongsam, which itself has classical elements, but you have to portray the morphological characteristics of the characters with lyrical realism, similar to Kolbe's realism, which is "not imaginative, not exaggerated", and which is not able to reflect the classical beauty of the work, because he depicts the true and pure reality, as opposed to the real and simple reality, which has been "exaggerated". reality, which is far from the classical beauty of "being unrealized and idealized".

Classical oil painting masters believe that: painting Yao bright and clear, the surface should not have too many strokes undulation, to be as smooth as possible, full of wrinkles on the surface of the early classical oil painting has no meaning. The more ancient oil paintings the more obvious, the picture does not have any raised pigment particles and canvas protruding point, side view absolutely smooth. For this reason, painters often smoothed the image with tools such as pumice stones and squid bones, and then rinsed it with water, in the same way as they did with lacquer paintings. When painting, a soft sable brush is used to smooth out any brush marks between strokes.