Study Of Super Realistic Oil Painting By Leng Jun

After the industrial revolution, people have been paying more attention to the material life. Additionally, due to the rapid development of imaging technologies, art tends to be industrialized and commercialized, and the idea that realistic painting is dead already is also prevalent in the art circles. While most people are looking for way out in the thorn bush of cynicism, utilitarianism, or innovation of external form, someone follows the "inherit and develop" pace of the ancient people. It is the Lengjun’s super realism oil painting that has broken new ground in the area of realistic painting,.Lengjun is a Chinese contemporary artist who has attracted tremendous attention, although he has been engaged in oil painting, printmaking painting, Chinese traditional painting, and many other artistic types, but it is his super realism oil painting that earned him great reputation. Although, at the beginning of the20th century, the genre of western super realism painting and photo realism painting had already emerged, although the artworks are as realistic as photos, but still have great essential differences compared to Lengjun’s super realistic oil painting. However, people hold different opinions towards his super realism oil painting, many people are more interested in Lengjun;s painting techniques, even question about his painting methods, and ignore the connotation of Lengjun’s works. From Lengjun;s meticulous and lifelike paintings, it can be seen that the author has a solid foundation of painting skills. Stunning visual effects not only surprises the ordinary viewers, but also impressed the professionals in the area of oil painting, it even evoked the upsurge of discussion of painting techniques for a period of time. People always took delight in talking about Lengjun’s history of success, he is not from the top art academy, but through their own talents and efforts he finally makes today’s achievements, his life story itself is a perfect "super realism oil painting". Lengjun’s super realistic oil painting works, whether the early simple quiet works of still-lifes, or the later works of objects with a critical nature, and also the subsequent portrait series that turn back to tradition, are all indicative of Lengjun’s opinions and views, from the paintings the viewer can also regain the inner peace or be evoked to take a deep thinking of life and society.This paper is divided into three chapters. Firstly, combined with the pictures of artworks, the art features of Lengjun’s super realism oil painting were studied from the aspect of visual effect, composition, technique and picture atmosphere. In the second chapter, from the perspective of the author’s historical background, life experience and the traditional culture, the objective reasons for the formation of his style were analyzed. Also, from the perspectives of the author’s art philosophy at different painting stages, the subjective reasons for his style formation were discussed. In the last chapter, the status of Lengjun painting status, then the similarities and differences between the super realism oil paintings of Lengjun and of other artists were compared, the uniqueness of Lengjun’s super realism oil painting were concluded, and then realistic significance of Lengjun’s super realism oil painting were investigated.