(A multi-dimensional perspective to judge the value of oil painting

Painter: It is very important to know the painter's painter before buying oil paintings. A good oil painting can let the viewer read the author's knowledge, attitude and love for painting. For example, the works of Wu Guanzhong, Wei Liu and other masters are all exquisite in painting, showing profound artistic connotation from lines to colors.

Discourse power: A good work should have an independent discourse power and a unique creative style and expression. It is not set off by background introduction, but conveys rich information through the work itself, giving people a profound artistic feeling.

Sense of cultural belonging: Excellent oil paintings should have more national cultural elements, giving people a sense of cultural belonging. In the balance between business and art, we should not be overly dependent on foreign styles, otherwise it will be difficult to gain a foothold for a long time. For example, China's contemporary oil paintings are actively integrated with China's traditional painting skills while integrating Western painting skills, showing unique cultural charm.

Artist's quality: An artist needs to be calm, persistent, intelligent and earnest, with inner persistence and firmness in art.. In the face of external public opinion and collectors, I can maintain my own artistic ideas.

(B) the preservation of oil painting collection know-how

Choose an appropriate location: avoid damp and direct sunlight, away from areas with heavy humidity such as bathrooms and kitchens, and avoid the works from being wet and being damaged by ultraviolet rays.

Avoid direct sunlight: ultraviolet rays in sunlight will make some pigments fade or even disappear, and may also cause color pulverization, which will affect the beauty and value of oil paintings.

Avoid being placed in a dark space: proper sunlight can maintain the activity of some oils in oil paintings, but it should not be overexposed.

Keep ventilation: Good ventilation can prevent moisture-induced problems, such as peeling, peeling, cracking and discoloration of the picture, and can also avoid mildew.

Regular cleaning: gently brush the surface dust with a soft brush or wool pen once or twice a month. At the same time, we should pay attention to the cleanliness of the inner side of the lower edge of the frame behind the work to prevent dust from accumulating and absorbing moisture.

Correct mounting: Oil paintings mounted in glass frames should keep a gap of about 5 mm from the glass, so as to make the air in the frame circulate and avoid water droplets from damaging the picture. It is more ideal to use acid-free acrylic glass cleaned with alcohol.

Pay attention to collection and handling: when collecting works, don't lean small paintings on big paintings; When handling, the front of the painting must face itself, pay attention to the cleanliness of your hands and avoid soiling the painting.

Second, the way to learn oil painting

(A) the road to copying

Copying plays a vital role in the study of oil painting. Copying is an important method to learn traditional oil painting techniques. By copying the classic works of predecessors, we can understand exquisite oil painting creation skills and high artistic ideas. For beginners, copying can effectively improve their painting skills and lay the foundation for future oil painting creation.

When copying, the choice of template is very important. You should choose the representative works of famous artists, which often have recognized artistic height and value, so that painters can avoid detours. At the same time, you can also choose a template that is suitable for your own painting personality according to the principle of personality, so that you can have confidence and pleasure in the process of copying and get obvious learning results. Copying should be carried out in stages. In the first stage, pick up the pen, understand the characteristics of oil paint and understand the process of color matching; In the second stage, try to achieve the master's sense of color; The third stage tries to understand and grasp the creative language, artistic style and expression form of oil painting.

In the process of copying, we should pay attention to the following points: first, carefully study the materials and techniques used by artists before painting; Second, pay attention to the bright and dark areas of the picture to maintain the overall unity of the picture; Third, pay attention to the changes of lines in the picture, the area distribution of lines and shadows and the color distribution of the picture; The fourth is to observe the distribution and trend of points, lines and planes in the picture. In addition, you can ask yourself some questions in the process of copying, such as how to deal with the same theme if you start from scratch; How is this painting drawn, and whether the picture distribution is balanced; What part of this painting do you like best? What is the most challenging part of the picture and how to improve it. By copying with questions, you can make your study more effective and learn more.

(2) The method of sketching

Sketching is one of the effective methods to cultivate subjective ability and judgment. Through sketching, painters can improve their observation ability, organization ability and control ability. Sketching is also an important method to summarize painting skills. Generally speaking, learning oil painting mainly starts from sketching.

Sketch can be divided into still life sketch, character sketch and landscape sketch according to the description object. In landscape sketch, we should learn to simplify the scene, don't try to capture every small detail, and learn to find the big shape and boil down the small shape into a whole. At the same time, learn to squint at the world, it is easier to see the main shape and automatically ignore the details. It is also important to know the positive and negative shapes of the picture. You can learn to simplify the shapes by practicing silhouette painting in the sketch book.

In the process of sketching, we should pay attention to the determination of light source. For outdoor sketch, the light source is the sun, and the direction of projection and dark part should be determined according to the shadow and dark part projected by sunlight on the object. We should also pay attention to the relationship between color and objects, and understand the influence of environmental color and light perception on objects. In addition, outdoor sketch also needs to pay attention to the induction of composition, learn to choose, have the main object and foil in the picture, and pay attention to the appropriate blank space.

(C) the skills of dictation

Dictation is an effective training method to cultivate creative thinking, and it is a method to master painting ability and process pictures according to memory. Silent writing can improve the organizational ability of the picture and actively create the application ability of knowledge. When learning oil painting, dictation can test your painting level and find out your weaknesses.

Silent writing can avoid copying objects passively, and prevent long-term sketching or copying from simply copying tones and colors without thinking. Through dictation, exercise memory and active modeling ability, lay a solid foundation for oil painting creation.

Three, oil painting lovers must go to the exhibition.

(1) Songjiang "Order" Oil Painting Exhibition

The "Order" oil painting exhibition in Songjiang Baishe Art Space brought a unique artistic feast by artist Li Zengguo. Most of Li Zengguo's works are composed of spheres and lines, which are deeply influenced by Yayoi Kusama, the "Queen of Wave Points". He used more than 20 oil paintings and installation art to show his thoughts on life to the audience. The installation "Collision of Time and Space" was also exhibited at the scene. A stainless steel horse stood in front of the clock in frustration, which implied the confusion when he first arrived in Shanghai. After graduating from college 30 years ago, Li Zengguo chose the road of professional painter because of his passion for painting, and came to Shanghai alone in 2000 to develop. Over the years, he witnessed the career changes of many colleagues, and he persisted with his persistence in art.

(2) Yantai High Score Exhibition

Hulu pyrography exhibition: Yantai Hulu pyrography exhibition was held in Shandong Handmade Yantai Comprehensive Exhibition Center, which has a long history and unique artistic style. With gourd as the carrier, artists use the techniques of branding, needle engraving, painting, hollowing out and relief to highlight the artistic characteristics of "taking iron as a pen and fire as ink". This exhibition focuses on more than 100 exquisite works, fully demonstrating the aesthetic taste and simple ideal of Yantai regional characteristic culture and gourd culture.

Poster design exhibition on marine ecology and culture: Yantai City Art Museum's 2024 "Blue Yantai" poster design exhibition on marine ecology and culture, in which 100 famous national designers took blue as the main color and marine life as the design language, showed the beauty of Yantai's ocean to the fullest. Here, the audience can deeply feel the charm of Yantai's marine culture and the richness of marine ecology.

Female Art Group Phenomenon Exhibition: The 2024 Yantai Female Art Group Phenomenon Exhibition of Yantai Art Museum (Yantai Painting Academy) is held for the third time. The exhibition planning is closely related to the word "she" and "boundary", aiming at breaking the inherent understanding of female art creation and returning female art to the artistic ontology. The exhibition shows many female artists' unique feelings about life, and their works cover various forms such as Chinese painting, oil painting, toner and propylene.

The first exhibition of teaching achievements of oil painting studio: the first exhibition of teaching achievements of Yuanjing Yuchao oil painting studio in Yantai Cultural Center. The works are not limited to the formal expression of easel painting language, but express emotions through free colors and vertical and horizontal lines. In the process of watching the exhibition, the audience can feel the emotional world and creative process of the artists and gain a unique artistic experience.

(3) Xuhui Music Portrait Oil Painting Exhibition

Portraits of 43 famous Shanghai musicians, including composers, conductors, singers, performers, etc., were exhibited at the Shanghai Musical Portraits Oil Painting Exhibition in Hunan Street, Xuhui District. Each portrait is equipped with a two-dimensional code, and the audience can learn the stories of musicians and listen to their works by scanning the code. The exhibition is not only a memory of artists, but also a preservation of music stories, which brings the citizens the enjoyment of visual beauty and auditory beauty. In addition, Shanghai Jiaoju Culture Communication Co., Ltd. also brought a guided lecture on "Music, Art, Humanities and Times" to the audience in Hunan streets, introducing the melody of the times and classic music works to the public.

Fourth, how to become an oil painting lover

(A) to join the circle

Joining the circle of oil painting lovers can bring many benefits. First of all, in terms of resource acquisition, we can get nearly 100 art e-books, 160G video tutorials by famous masters such as Le Shangyi and dozens of g oil painting pictures. Secondly, we can join the WeChat membership group and the 500-person exchange group of oil painting lovers, exchange experiences and learn from each other with oil painting lovers all over the world. You can also enjoy the opportunity to participate in offline art exhibitions with big coffee, face-to-face communication, and improve your artistic appreciation. In addition, there are opportunities to get promotion opportunities worth 3,600 yuan, and you can publish information in several major domestic media channels to increase your popularity. At the same time, enjoy the preferential treatment of offline training and teaching, get the opportunity of guidance from senior painters, and connect resources. No matter fans, painters, galleries or manufacturers, they can find their own development opportunities in the circle. Participate in online painting activities in the oil painting world, and excellent works will also have the opportunity to be exhibited, auctioned and repurchased.

The conditions for joining the circle are also very simple, as long as you love painting and are willing to share, and you can easily pay an annual membership fee of 399 yuan. The original annual membership fee of 1999 yuan is only 399 yuan now, and it will rise to 499 yuan after the year, with a value of more than 10,000 yuan. The joining method is to scan and pay the annual fee, add WeChat YHSJ2020, send a screenshot of the payment, and after passing, you can be drawn into the member group and the 500-person exchange group in the oil painting world, and get some internal information.

You can also join the exchange group of oil painting art lovers. No matter you are a fan, a zero-based white, a professional student or even an expert, you are welcome to join. Administrators will send oil painting art picture resources in groups from time to time. If you leave a micro signal, you will be pulled into the group. At the same time, pay attention to the group owner WeChat official account's "Cuiye Art". First, I will send a gift to my new friend, that is, 100 electronic pictures of high-definition oil paintings of Venice classical scenery. After paying attention to WeChat official account, I will directly reply to the keyword "Venice Oil Painting" to get the download link of Baidu network disk.

(2) Step into the collection circle

For beginners, buying and collecting oil paintings can start with the works of young and middle-aged oil painters with lower prices. For example, Blessing, a series of works of the Forbidden City in Jiang Guofang, sold for a good price of 480,000 yuan in the form of auction without reserve price, while The Son of Heaven sold for a good price of 2.97 million yuan. The works of contemporary young and middle-aged oil painters in China have a good market response and great value-added potential.

When buying oil paintings, we should pay attention to the author's resume and participation. Understand the artist's background first, then talk to him before buying. Many artists' life and social life will change after they become famous, but they still keep in touch and care about each other. It is more important to choose artists than works. An excellent artist must have the courage to break through the real society, personal habits, concepts and styles in order to constantly transcend tradition and create more valuable art.

You can also learn from old collectors. For example, Lin Mingzhe collected the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts as a project, and gradually formed a vein through combing the collection. He suggested that the collection should start with young artists, who are not expensive at present, and exchange time for future value and achievements. The purchase price depends on the market. I would rather buy expensive masterpieces than buy some ordinary works that I don't like. In the proportion of fund allocation, 2/3 of the budget is used to purchase future forward-looking artists' works, and 1/3 of the budget is spent on the exhibition and promotion of these artists' works.

(3) Become a connoisseur of appreciation

Appreciating oil painting requires a certain knowledge reserve. Take Russian landscape painting in the 19th century as an example, its charm is reflected in shape, light, color, pen and so on. In shape, 19th-century Russian realistic landscape painters, such as Hishkin, have a keen observation of nature, which makes his works, whether rough trunks, spreading branches and leaves, roots of convolutions or attached moss, all depict exceptionally natural and cordial, without any traces of carving. In the application of light and shadow, Russian landscape oil paintings highlight the deep space of landscape painting through the relationship between light and shade, such as Simon Schederin's work "Seaside Terrace", which shows the space of the picture through the contrast between the heavy color of the front light and the bright color of the distant sea, and emphasizes the perspective space relationship of the picture. In terms of color, the mid-Russian landscape oil paintings reproduce the real natural space with the traditional western painting light-dark relationship and perspective principle. With the change of color light-dark, they use light to deal with light-dark relationship at the same time, which makes the deep space of the picture give people endless visual experience, such as Levitan's work Next to the Abyss. In terms of brush strokes, Hishkin's works cover the whole picture with large pine forests, but they are arranged in a patchwork, with clear priorities and alternating reality and reality, which makes the picture appear numerous but not chaotic, dense and not stuffed, giving people a feeling of being sparse, open and far-reaching, showing exquisite realistic skills and unique artistic expression. In the 19th century, Russian landscape painters described all kinds of amorous feelings of Russian nature with unique artistic sentiment. Their works were full of the painter's deep love for national nature, and their hearts were full of love for life and people, with a profound sense of mission and ideology of compassion.

V. Characteristics of oil painting lovers

(A) analysis of personality characteristics

Love of freedom: Oil painting lovers usually love freedom, and they are eager to be free to express their feelings and thoughts in their creation. Just like Deng Kaihua, a young artist, he pursues the realm of integration with painting in his oil painting creation, and shows his unique understanding of nature with a brush, which is not limited by traditional techniques and fully embodies his love for freedom.

Sensitive and delicate: people who like oil painting are often sensitive and delicate, can keenly feel everything around them, and pay special attention to the details in life. For example, oil painting girls are usually imaginative, and can find beauty in every detail of life and show it through brushes, which reflects their sensitive and delicate personality characteristics.

Pursuit of perfection: oil painting is an art form that needs to be improved, and oil painting lovers usually pursue perfection. They will constantly try and explore, challenge themselves and strive to make their works more perfect. This spirit of pursuing perfection is not only reflected in creation, but also in life.

Creativity: Oil painting requires artists to be creative and be able to integrate their imagination and creativity into their works. Oil painting lovers are usually creative. They can find beauty from the little things in life and create their own works of art..

Good at thinking: oil painting requires artists to have thinking ability and be able to integrate their thoughts and emotions into their works.

Oil painting lovers are usually good at thinking. They can think deeply about themselves and everything around them, thus creating more profound and connotative works of art..

(B) Summary of the characteristics of world oil painting masters

Picasso: If the person in the painting looks disabled, it is Picasso. He is the founder of modern art and the main representative of western modernist painting.

Da Vinci: Covered with blue fog, such as the scene in The Lord of the Rings, the Virgin Mary always has thick curly hair and aristocratic nose, so it is Da Vinci. He is an Italian scholar, artist, genius scientist, inventor and painter in the European Renaissance.

Caravaggio: If all the men in the painting are sissies with big eyes and curly hair, it is Caravaggio. He is an Italian painter and has an important influence on the formation of Baroque School.

Renoir: mottled light and shadow and always happy parties, then it is Renoir. He is a French impressionist painter and sculptor.

Degas: If it's a ballerina, it's Degas. He is an important French impressionist painter.

Titian: If the background in the painting is dark and the expression on your face seems to be tortured, then it is Titian. He is a representative painter of Venice School in the late Renaissance of Italy.

Greco: If everything in the painting has a strong contrast between light and shade, sharp edges and a little blue, and the characters are still unshaven and gaunt, then it is greco. He is a Spanish painter.

In a word, oil painting lovers usually have personality characteristics such as loving freedom, being sensitive and delicate, pursuing perfection, being creative and being good at thinking. The world oil painting masters also have their own unique characteristics. By understanding these characteristics, we can better understand the world of oil painting art and oil painting lovers.