2011年12月20日星期二

Basics knowledge of oil paintings

Using transparent vegetable oil blending pigments, make oil paintings on the done cloth, paper, wood and other materials. Its origins and development in Europe, becoming a worldwide important paintings in modern species.

Materials and tools: paint, brushes, art knives, canvas, glazing, frame, etc.

① pigment, it can divided into minerals and chemical synthesis. Original paint are mineral pigments, reconciling when painting. In modern times by the factory mass production, mounting tube, pigment types ,the painting types are also increasing. Pigment properties and its chemical constituents contained relevant, when color matching, adverse reactions between chemical action will make.Thus, mastered oil painting techniques of pigment performance helps bring into full play and making the works colors enduring unchanged.

② Brush, mading of elastic medium animal hair.It has the shape of  circular, flat front spike of flat the flat and short front.

③ Painting knife, it is also known as the palette knife, mading from thin steel plate and elastic, it has the pointed shape, round shaped.Many painters use a knife directly to paint on canvas or part with a knife form a pigment, texture, increasing performance.
4.The canvas, the standard canvas, is made by the linen or canvas which were tight in the wooden box, mixing glue or oil and powder and brushing on the cloth surface. Thickness of a cloth depends on frame size, and also choose according to the painting effect.
Some artists used painted canvas, it is very easy to form a unified screen tones.When they painting,it may inadvertently reveal background.
⑤ varnish, typically completed in oil painting and dry back coating varnish, gloss keep picture to prevent erosion and air scale.
⑥The outside frame,especially the realistic painting, formation viewers perspective on work of the bounding box boundary, making the screen look complete, centralized, painted images in the viewer's sense of depth. Frame thickness, sizes may depends on the content.

2011年12月11日星期日

Chinese Oil painting Collection knowledge

Oil painting is from the foreign country artwork. From the 15th century Netherlands artists  Georg groddeck brothers starting using powder painting pigments of the paint,the oil paintings has over 600 years of history. Coparing with silk painting from the warring States period of Chinese painting over more than 2000 years of history, the paintings history was nothing. However, it was in this seemingly short time of the development and evolution, Western painting schools are colorful, rich, the great, romantic masterpieces voluminous. Today, the oil paintings has no suspected to be a worldwide painting. In the field of collection, as far as the world-wide, oil paintings is unrivalled ranks.


In early 20th century, when western oil painting has transfered from late Impressionist to modernist era symboled by Matisse, and Picasso, and kangding Sergi Vicente, and Mondrian, alternating, A lot of chinese painter such as Li Tiefu, and Mr Frederick FUNG baigang, and Li Yishi, and Lin Fengmian, and Xu Beihong, and Liu haisu, and Yan Wen beam, and Pan Yuliang, and Pang Xun piano, and Chang Shu-Hong 's, and Wu Dayu, and Tang Yihe, have go Janpan and Western Europe to learn oil paintings.After their learning,they return china,and creat new painting school and new art education. organization various painting organization, holding exhibition. Forming a Realism represented by Xu Beihong, Lin Feng-mian, Liu haisu as the representative of the new school and Pang Xun Qin, Ni Yide is represented of the modernist, all of them are the great pionner of the china oil paintings.

As China's reform and opening up, Chinese oil paintings show unprecedented prosperity. Realism, ultra realistic, abstract and semi-abstract, classical, avant, new performance, a variety of genres have appearance. Oil painting market, was hurriedly rush in emerging. Oil paintings started to enter the usual home, gradually formed oil painting collection groups, received increasing attention in the art market, chinese oil paintings find their place and are playing an increasingly important role in china art.
The oil paintings can be origin oil paintings and custom oil painting.
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2011年12月4日星期日

Cold Winter,How can we go?

The cold winter comes,what shall we do to have a happy winter ?We may wear more clothes,more socks,maybe adding a beautiful scarf.Any better suggestion for us,please tell me.

2011年12月3日星期六

How to hang oil painting on the wall?


Tip one
When hanging paintings, the paintings height is according to the height of the room ,the important point is that the hanging is based on the room light conditions, due to the highly reflective of oil painting, directly facing the light source will affect the angle of the screen. In order to achieve better visual effect, using the side above the light forward side, trying to make suspension of light source and the art of light.
Tip two
The suitable height of the paintings is from the ground 1.5-1.8M. There is a golden section method to determine the height of the oil painting. Oil painting is the central location of 0.618 of the height of the wall on the golden section. Because hanging too low, it can not conducive to the protection and appreciation of screen, hanging too high, it is hard for us to enjoy the paintings .  
Tip three
When hanging many oil paintings, taking into account the distance between one painting and another paintings. Same size paintings should be space consistent, but not regularly arranged the hoisting, a certain sense of wrong fall, so that the whole picture changes in the severity of cold and warm. Inconsistent picture work,we should pay attention to the bottom of the tidy and consistent picture of inclination. There is a distance of the large paintings,it can be suitable for enjoying.
Tips four
We had better not to mount the glass furnishings when hanging the paintings.Althought glass is good for protection screen, but it is easier to reflective lights, impacting ornamental effects.
When hanging the paintings, it cannot have a lanyard reveals a picture frame.This is the so-called hidden hanging, it works some difference with the pictures hanging.
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