Artistic innovation is a new exploration and development on the basis of inheriting tradition. In oil painting, the European Renaissance initiated classical realism. From15th century to19th century, realism, as the mainstream of oil painting, has been leading the development direction of oil painting. When realism reached its peak, it fell into a dilemma, and after the invention of photography technology, it caused a "shock" to realistic oil painting. At this time, impressionist oil painting and abstract oil painting came into being one after another. This groundbreaking innovation made oil painting regain its strong vitality and quickly became the first painting in the world.
This is a great innovation in oil painting techniques and expression techniques. At the same time, the three main schools of oil painting, realism, impressionism and abstraction, are constantly innovating themselves. For example, realistic oil painting, from classical realism in 14 and 17 century to dakachism in 18 century, neoclassicism in 19 century and surrealism in the 20th century.
Neoclassicism includes realism represented by Courbet, romanticism represented by Delacroix, and academism represented by Angel and bouguereau. Impressionist oil paintings include impressionism represented by Monet, Manet and Renoir, post-impressionism represented by Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne, and fauvism oil paintings represented by Matisse. In abstract oil painting, there are three-dimensional abstractions represented by Picasso, surreal abstractions represented by Dali and modern abstractions represented by Duchamp.
As can be seen from the above list, in the 600-year history of oil painting art, all kinds of innovations, large and small, have been continuous. It is this constant innovation that promotes the rapid development of oil painting art and makes it blossom and bear fruit all over the world.
Chinese painting is a painting art rooted in China's traditional culture. It is the quintessence of our country and the main kind of painting in the East, with a history of more than 2,000 years. Because of different artistic ideas and concepts, different creative tools and materials, different creative techniques and forms of expression, the emphasis and characteristics of Chinese painting and oil painting innovation are also different. In my humble opinion, Chinese painting has a long history and profound connotation, and it is more difficult to innovate than oil painting to emphasize the integration of painting, calligraphy and poetry.