| This paper intends to explore the in-depth reasons why painting styles varied form each other among different eras in the western history of art by comparing those painting styles, illustrate the formal language meaning and the time spirit in the painting skills, and interpret the inspiring and leading role of painting skills in the process of painting and appreciation.It is quite natural for us to compare the culture and the style of painting in the western art history. We can see clearly the time spirit in the works of the three grandmasters in the Renaissance period. The paintings of Rubens are full of kinetic potential, which represents explicitly the change of painting concepts. Different from the sublimity and quietness in the painting The School of Athens, Caravaggio dramatic shading and exaggerative style can also embody this change. Although the rococo style mainly develops from the baroque style in a wide art field, it puts more stress on brisk, decorative and elegant style, which could be evident in the paintings of Watte au and Fragonard. Moreover, The Inheritance and Development of the form styles can also be identified easily in the various schools of impressionism and modernism.The language form of the painting art has been viewed as a system of visual signs of the line-plane structure and the color forms, and its value lies in embodying the different painting styles among different periods. Considered as the dynamic factor of the line-plane structure, painting skills are obviously very important. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to investigate the role of painting skills in the painting art production and in the aesthetic judgment of appreciation.The production of the painting art and the aesthetic flavor cannot exist without the meanings of the visual language form. The influence of the painting skills upon the form meanings and the aesthetic judgment in the works of painting is emphasized to clarify the misleading attitudes in judging the nature of visual aesthetics. For instance, certain literariness hidden in the formal meanings can lead to the beauty and ugliness of the works of art.Just as the obvious aesthetic effects of the painting skills on the form language of the painting art, it is necessary for us to study the area of this form factors, but we need to realize that the ideas of the modern painting art are diversified and the study... |