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In reality oil painting is a fairly new art style. Oil painting as a painting medium, the usage of oil in combination with other pigments counts back to 1400. Prior to oil painting, painting in general dates its history back to the period of stone age, painting in that era was made with the usage of binders unlike oil painting mixed with some kind of pigments like egg in tempera paints.
The fifteenth century was seen as a transitional period in Europe, there was some sort of reality visualized in art. Art was changing from the decorative style and mythological during a middle age to a period of revival and rebirth with the beginning of renaissance. There was a realization among the artists, they were beginning to understand the mathematical laws behind the outlook and there was a scenario prevailing where the artist were interested in portraying more sincere and portrays that were more realistic in nature. They had initiated the usage of nature as a source of inspiration for their paintings.
Jan Van Eyck (1395-1441), a painter of the northern renaissance wanted to mimic nature and its scenic beauty along with his painting brush on the board. He wanted to paint every tiniest detail on his board to portray his paintings to be more scenic and livelier. Finally he realized that if he had to portray every tiny detail of painting to his fullest satisfaction, he had to improve on the technique of painting.
Thus with this zeal to portray tiny detail of nature with clarity he became the inventor of oil painting. Initially Van Eyck and all painters during the period of renaissance did not buy ready made colors. They grounded their pigment from natural sources like plants and minerals and in turn they added binder to form a paste with which they could paint. During the middle ages the binder which was used was egg and the end- product thus formed was tempera paint, this had the tendency to dry very quickly. This property of quick drying agent did not permit smooth transitions in shading. But smooth transitions were necessary to achieve as sense of reality which Van Eyck was attempting to portray. Thus he initiated the usage of oil instead of egg. The work with oil as a binder was much slower and accurate to the satisfaction levels. An oil binder permits to provide a glossier look. With this technique he was able to apply tiny detailing with the help of pointed brushes. Later the new technique of oil painting was appreciated and there was a general acceptance of oil painting to be used as a widely used suitable medium of painting.
Thus the invention of oil painting took place. They are very convenient sold in tube form, there are many other mediums of oil paintings available but we still adhere to the usage of oil painting invented by Van Eyck.
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Excellent Chinese Oil Painting Artist Yan Peiming Art Appreciation – The Funeral Of Mona Lisa
Yan Peiming Portrait Oil Painting Work – The Funeral of Mona Lisa
Painting Title: The Funeral of Mona Lisa
Artist: Yan Peiming
Painting size: 300*300cm
Media: Fabric, Oil painting
Creation Time: 2001
Most of Yan Peiming's oil painting works are huge black and white portrait paintings, you will been shocked and have fear at first sight. These characters faces were been painted out wildly and haphazardly, as if they are mummies, as if they are rubber or leather masks which had been stretched out and distorted in S & M games, they were seemed strange and weird, paradoxical, dark, angry, terrible, full of strength as well as sadly.
Yan Pei Ming is specializes in the creation of huge size oil paintings, he like to create two-color paintings, most of his oil painting works are portraits. His oil painting works have participated in the Venice Biennale and other important international art exhibition.
In the evening of February 11, 2009, Yan Peiming held an art exhibition themed "Mona Lisa's Funeral" in Louvre, France. In this exhibition, Yan Peiming with gray tone, with projection-like manner, celebrated a funeral for Mona Lisa. He extended the mystical background Mona Lisa lived in, dotted with numerous skull heads. On both sides of the Mona Lisa there is the self-portrait of Yan Peiming, the side face to face is his withered aging father, who is witnessing the death of his son.
Chinese artist Yan Peiming is the first modern artist who is still alive and can held an individual art exhibition in Louvre.
About Artist Yan Peiming:
Mr.Yan Peiming, who was born in Shanghai in 1960; In 1980 moved to Dijon, France;
1981-1986: studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Dijon, France;
1988-1989: Studied at the Paris Advanced Institute of Plastic Arts in Paris, France;
1993-1994: Studied at France College in Rome, Italy;
1995-now: Act as a professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Dijon, France.
Exhibitions:
1988: Studio 88 (Paris Modern Art Museum)
1991: Sports 2 (Pompidou Art Centre)
1993: China Avant-Garde Art (Berlin, Rotterdam, Oxford etc.)
1995: Venice Biennial
1997: Lyons Biennial
2000: Kwangju Biennial (Korea)
2000: Shanghai Biennial (China)
2002: Pusan Biennial (Korea)
2009: Mona Lisa's Funeral (Louvre, France)
In 2009, Yan Peiming held his individual art shows in China, France and U.S.A. respectively.
During June 19 to October 11, 2009, Yan Pei Ming launched his individual art exhibition themed with "Landscape in Childhood" in Lawrence Contemporary Art Centre in Beijing, with 34 paintings of huge size children portraits, he explained his understanding on poverty, hunger, inequality and war.
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Welcome to take some time to read my latest article on my oil painting blog(http://www.oil-painting-online.com): Contemporary Chinese Artist He Kongde Oil Painting Art Appreciation – Tree, and i also like to introduce featured Chinese things such as China handicrafts, Chinese food, traditional food & handicrafts to you...
Is it okay to do oil painting whilst pregnant?
I am an artist and it's just occurred to me that maybe I should be taking extra care whilst using oil paints? I know you're not supposed to like, paint a wall or anything using oil paints when you are pregnant, due to the fumes, but are there precautions I should be taking whilst painting a canvas? I don't paint in a well ventilated area, just in my living room. Is it too extreme to use a face mask? I only paint for about an hour at a time, and don't feel any effect from the fumes.
oil painting will be fine it wont hurt the baby.. but if your the type of person that worries alot you could be in a well ventilated area or even paint outside. but it wont hurt you
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