4. Early neoteric period
The development of oil painting has a new trend in the 19th century, which is mainly reflected in the change of oil painting colors. The British painter Constable was the first to directly use oil painting to sketch outdoors to obtain a rich color experience. He juxtaposed colors with small brushstrokes locally to mix them into brighter color blocks, and the picture was much brighter than the classical brown tones.
5. Late neoteric times
However, by the end of the 19th century, Western oil painting had undergone a fundamental change. Oil painting no longer takes imitating nature and reproducing nature as the principle of artistic creation, but takes the artistic image of oil painting freely constructed by painters as the new reality. They use oil painting as a medium to express their spiritual and emotional world and construct their works by methods such as imagination and fantasy.
Van Gogh, his representative painter, was the first to abandon the traditional oil painting model after the Impressionists. With his haste brushstrokes, he filled the strong and bright colors with a strong sense of strength and expressed his inner emotional anxiety.
6. The modern era
In modern oil paintings in the 20th century, different artistic concepts formed different genres, and the formal language of oil paintings was highly valued. From the history of Western oil painting in recent hundreds of years, we can see that oil painting has grown to modern times, and countless genres have appeared and replaced one after another. As long as oil painting tools and materials are used as the modeling medium, artists can create anything Oil picture appearance.
Expressionism, one of the important modern art schools. The literary and artistic genres were popular in Germany, France, Austria, Northern Europe, and Russia in the early 20th century. It is the artist who focuses on expressing his inner emotions through his works while ignoring the description of the form of the object. Therefore, the practice of distorting and abstracting reality is especially used to express the emotion of fear. On behalf of Munch, shout (fourth version).
