On How To Create New Visual Sensation Through Traditional Oil Painting Language

The world-wide decline of easel paintings didn't influence the development of oil painting in China.on the contrary,it grows continually and shows strong vitality.How to create new visual sensation through traditional facilities of oil painting is a very considerable question for an artist when facing the canvas.Painting is first a visual art,and the painting history is a history of change on visual experience and the contents in paintings,vivid image,natural figures,precise and varied shape, the grasp on the space and the keynote of the entirety,the corresponding connections of the colors,the cooperative relationship among the elements of the pictures,and the emphasis on the expression of the differences among individual life,all these are the premises to create a new visual sensation.Liu Xiandong has ever said,it was more difficult to create a new visual sensation through traditional facilities than through new facilities.However,it is more inspiring to put a new life and creation on the traditional facilities.In contemporary context,the artists have made varied explorations on the new visual sensations.In fact,oil painting had no much space to develop in the materials and techniques.In such a new age,pursuing the spiritual aim is the real mission of the artists.