On Development Of The Sinified Oil Painting

As the product of the combination of traditional Chinese painting and western oil painting, the sinified oil painting is one of those oil painting styles that best represent Chinese culture. Ever since oil painting was introduced into China, generations of painters have been conducting in their own ways the experiments and researches on the sinified oil painting. Through borrowing ideas from Chinese paintings, they benefited from Chinese culture and thus accomplished great achievements in painting. Focusing on this, the present paper tries to discuss the development of the sinified oil painting from the following aspects in three chapters.Chapter One points out that oil painting has exerted great influence on Chinese painting circles since it was introduced into China. In this part, the present author firstly introduces the "Personalization" trend of Chinese painting before the introduction, and the influence of oil painting on Chinese painting as well as their interaction after it was introduced, and then points out that it is the immense reaction of Chinese painting to traditional painting and culture that leads to the appearance of the sinified oil painting.Chapter Two, the most important part of this paper, presents those researches carried out by Chinese painters. Through the analyses of their works, the present author expatiates on the efforts made by those painters: they have borrowed ideas from every aspect of Chinese painting, including composition, brush and ink skill and color ect, and they have even tried to pursue in their oil paintings "Vividness and Vitality" and "Literati Temperament" which are typical of Chinese paintings.Chapter Three is about the future of the sinified oil painting. Though the sinified oil painting has greatly benefited from Chinese painting, its development will be different from that of traditional Chinese painting due to the modern and open environment, and such a difference primarily lies in painting itself, i.e., the sinified oil painting aims at the improvement of skills and modern sense of painting.