Painting is easy-to-oil (linseed oil, poppy oil, walnut oil) and mix paint, in linen, cardboard or wood on the production of a genre. Paint thinner used to charge the onset of turpentine and linseed oil dry. Screen attached to the pigment of the strong hardness, when the screen after drying, long-term to maintain luster. Western painting oil painting is the main genre.

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1. Originated in Europe about the 15th century by the Dutch invented to reconcile with linseed oil paint, in the treated cloth or board to paint, because the oil paint dry does not change color, variety of colors does not become reconciled dirty, the painter can draw a rich, lifelike color. Opaque oil paint, strong coverage, so the painting can be from deep to shallow, layer by layer coverage, the resulting three-dimensional painting. For creation of large-scale oil paintings, an epic masterpiece, a painting in the history of Western painting the main way.

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2. Now survive in the world of Western painting mainly paintings. Most of the mural is created with oil paint and the way of production. Late 19th century, due to technological development, many new materials used in oil fields, such as acrylic paints, paint and so on.
  
 3. Oil development in the early history of the conditions laid a tendency of classical realist painting. 15th century European Renaissance, the humanist thought out criticism of religion, with attention to the positive requirements of social reality, moving away from many famous artists of the classic single to the Christian theme of creation, began life in the characters of the time , landscape, painted items and direc observation, so that works with religious themes with a clear and present secular factors, and some artists depict real life full of real. Renaissance painters inherited Greek and Roman art the idea that not only focus on work to describe an event or fact, but also reveals the causes and consequences of events or facts, so pay attention to the idea of ??forming a typical image of the typical shape of the plot and artistic . At the same time, artists were also exploring anatomy, perspective in painting in the use of science, the role of light and shade screen, forming the shape of scientific principles. The use of human anatomy in the painting style with the characters as accurately as the ratio of the real, physical, structural relationship; focus Perspective The establishment of the composition formed by painting the illusion of deep space, painting the landscape orientation with the reality of the moment the same visual experience; shading to the painting's unity in a major source images emitted light to form clear from near and far layers. The Entombment    4. 17 century European classical painting period of rapid development in different regions, the country's artists live in a society based on their background, ethnic style, and painting on a different language to explore the deep, the type of oil paintings by subject matter into historical painting , religious stories painting, group portraits, personal portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre painting and so on. Painting techniques are also becoming more abundant, and the formation of a national, regional schools of thought. La nymphee   5. Flanders painter PP Rubens works in the use of the huge number of thin Baozhan large painted bright colors, according to figures form the pen moves, leaving the free-spirited, mostly curve strokes, resulting in a body strong momentum and the dramatic story of conflict. Dutch painter F. Hals is the use of light, flexible brush strokes painted portrait, the portrait has disappeared raw figures look dynamic, with his heroic performance biased, optimistic people complement each other. Another Dutch painter J. Vermeer good at crushing the pearl-like, rounded strokes depicting the characters in the room, so that the screen produces a quiet, warm atmosphere. Church At Auvers  6. From the late 19th century, when Western oil painting has undergone fundamental changes. Relatively narrow traditional art of painting functions and the integration of realist style has reached its own system of highly saturated, so in philosophy, art of change in the concept of disintegration. Painting is no longer to mimic natural reproduction of nature as the principle of artistic creation, the artist's oil painting free image is constructed as a new reality. By painting the artist is no longer faithfully describe the natural form, but will show his paintings as a form of mental and emotional world of the media, to imagination, fantasy and other methods of construction works. After the first three Impressionist painters abandoned the traditional mode of painting. V. Van Gogh's bold brush strokes with acute illness, so strong, bright colors with a strong sense of power, the performance of inner emotional anxiety. P. Gauguin to symbolize the color and shape and compose the picture, the work space and run counter to the traditional form, with non-descriptive nature of the mysterious atmosphere. P. Cezanne explore further the artistic image with the geometric form to create a rich picture of the world order itself. Their works become the face of dramatic changes in the sign painting.