On Wei Tianlin Oil Painting

The research on artists should be deep and from multi-angles. An artist's development is related to his teachers, life experiences, religious tradition, humanistic accomplishment and his personality.The formation relationship of the elements reflects the artist's spiritual world and development characteristics of his art. Therefore, to analyze the formation relationship of the form elements of the artist's works becomes the best means of understanding his emotional world.Tianlin Wei is a Chinese oil painter in 20th century. He holds special opinions on arts. He manipulates special styles and form language to show his internal feelings. Objectively speaking, the styles are the heritage of impressionism and post-impressionism, but in fact, they coincide with the tendency of Chinese scholars' style selection. Wei's painting language is based on impressionism and post-impressionism, and ancient scholars' pure aesthetic attitudes. From his paintings we can find that his art belongs to the conservative impressionism. The post-impressionist technique of expression fulfils his paintings with enthusiasm.The formation of from elements in different periods reflects the developing process of his feelings. His paintings become the most powerful tool of expressing his feelings and releasing his depression. This paper uses various research methods, such as literature research and picture comparison. From this research we can see that his art is the process of expressing his feelings through paintings.The special formation is the best proof of Wei's expression of depression and loneliness. Meanwhile, his pursuit of art in his late ages shows Chinese scholars' common pursuit. Tianlin Wei provides a good example for Chinese scholars in modern society.