The Expressive Force Of The Contour Line Of The Figurative Oil Painting

In this paper, first of all, the figurative painting and contour line to do accurate definition, contour lines, although not directly to our sense of the first factor but it has always played a vital role in the realization of the oil painting. Now I based on historical and contemporary famous figurative paintings. Analysis of contour lines from the picture, to discover legible contour to the vague contour of artistic style and emotional convey, the master of the guild of contour line bring different art style, strong changes of contour directly reflects the artist’s emotion, personality. Different artists in the use of contour line strengths and weaknesses combined with the problems existing in their usual creation processing of contour and provide a theoretical basis to solve these problems, so that in the future creation processing contour can be handy.