What are the artistic forms of oil painting?

Female theme is a common theme in oil painting, and it is also the most popular theme. In particular, some classic oil paintings, through the artist's superb techniques and expression techniques, create female images, give people a beautiful feeling, and show the artistic expression of oil paintings full of charm.

In terms of expressing female themes and shaping female images, the artistic expression of oil painting lies not only in its ability to fully show the beauty that people are aware of, but also in its ability to refine and sublimate the beauty that people have not thought or realized, and present it in a nearly perfect form and image, thus affecting and changing people's aesthetic concepts and attitudes. Then, how is the artistic expression of oil painting reflected? Here try to take some classic oil paintings as examples to talk about this problem.

As a visual art presented by images, oil painting's artistic expression is mainly reflected in the picture, including its composition, modeling, color, light and shadow, background setting and so on.

One is to portray the beauty of women through exquisite and ingenious composition modeling.

Composition modeling is the key to the success of an oil painting. This is also the reason why oil painting attaches so much importance to sketch, because composition and modeling depend on sketch. Especially female portraits, first of all, through exquisite and ingenious composition modeling, depict the beautiful physical characteristics of the characters.

Take Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as an example. Leonardo da Vinci was a master painter in the Italian Renaissance. Mona Lisa is his masterpiece and the pioneering work of western classical realistic oil painting.

If we only look at the physical characteristics of the characters themselves, the heroine in Mona Lisa is nothing special, neither very beautiful nor "plump". The reason why this painting can look beautiful and become the world-famous first painting in the west is largely because of its exquisite composition.

The overall composition of the painting is a rectangle, and the characters are presented in a slightly lateral posture of the front upper body, occupying two-thirds of the picture. The background is composed of square, rectangular and triangular borders, which not only highlights the main image of the characters, but also increases the three-dimensional sense of the picture, making the whole picture look vast and spacious, producing an intuitive beauty and artistic beauty. In modeling, through the subtle depiction and treatment of the corners of the eyes and corners of the mouth, a smile with rich connotation and mysterious atmosphere is displayed, resulting in graceful, gentle, kind, harmonious and gentle beauty and breathtaking artistic charm.

The second is to render the beauty of women through rich and gorgeous color expression.

Color is an important carrier of oil painting. The expression of oil painting theme, the shaping of subject image and the expression of thoughts and feelings are largely realized through color communication.

Take Renoir's The Woman in the Bath as an example. Renoir is a master of French painting and one of the representatives of impressionist oil painting in19th century. The Woman in the Bath is his masterpiece.

The series of oil paintings "Bathing Woman" depicts a group of beautiful young women playing while bathing in the river. In this group of paintings, the artist uses the expression method of combining reality with reality to cover up and weaken some places that are not conducive to the expression of plump female beauty, and at the same time, uses more than ten different colors such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple to highlight plump female beauty. For example, plump women's gentle temperament, soft skin and energetic spirit have successfully shaped a number of happy, sunny and handsome female images, giving people a kind of "beautiful and fleshy" visual beauty and artistic enjoyment.

Third, through the change of light and shadow, highlight the beauty of women.

The use of light and shade is a major feature of oil painting art, and it is also an important form and means for oil paintings with female themes to highlight female beauty.

Take Rembrandt's Hendrick Bathing in the River as an example. Rembrandt is one of the greatest painters in Holland and even Europe in the17th century, and he is a master of "light and shade method" in oil painting. Hendrick Bathing in the River is Rembrandt's masterpiece.

In this painting, Rembrandt used his best light and shade method. The background of the picture is black, brown, crimson and other dark colors, while the main characters are depicted in bright colors such as white and light yellow, giving people a visual feeling, just like beams of white light shining on the main characters in the center of the picture. This not only weakens the background as a foil, highlights the main image of the characters, but also makes the whole picture full of real and simple atmosphere, greatly enhances the sense of scene and immediacy of the picture, and highlights the natural beauty of the female image.

Fourth, through the beautiful and harmonious background setting, the beauty of women is set off.

As the saying goes, "Red flowers need the help of green leaves." If the protagonist in an oil painting is safflower, the background is its green leaves. Background plays an indispensable role in oil painting.

Take giorgione's Sleeping Venus as an example. Giorgione is one of the important representatives of the Venetian School in the Italian Renaissance, and Sleeping Venus is his masterpiece.

This painting is based on the legendary story of Venus in ancient Greek mythology. In this painting, Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, lies on an open-air bed. She seems to have fallen asleep. If there is no background, it is boring to just appear in such a picture, and the characters look pale and powerless.

By depicting the blue sky and colorful clouds floating in the sky, distant hills, trees, houses and nearby green lawns, the painter makes Venus, the goddess in the center of the picture, blend into the spectacular nature, thus further highlighting Venus' beautiful appearance and rhythmic body curve. At the same time, the whole picture presents a wonderful picture of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.