oil paintings history

The historical conditions of the primary development for oil paintings led to the realistic trend of classical oil painting.During the European Renaissance in 15th century, as a result of criticism for religion,the humanist thought had active requirements for paying attention to the social reality, Many famous artists gradually got rid of the single creative theme for the Christian classics, They began to observe and describe those figures, landscapes, objects in daily life. so that those religious works had obvious unreligious factors as well as some artists compeletely described the real scenes in daily life. Painters during Renaissance inherited the art conceptions of Greek and Rome,which not only focused on describing an event or fact, but also revealed the causes and consequences of events or facts, so that the artistic techniques of focuing on the typical plots and images were taking shape. At the same time, artists were also exploring the use of anatomy, perspective science in painting so that the shape of scientific principles were forming. And the use of human anatomy helped the characters of hand painted  have the accurate and actual relationship among the distribution, shape and structure in the picture. The establishment of focusing perspective formed deep illusion space through the composition of picture, and it also made the landscapes of the paintings had the same visual feelings in the real life. The chiaroscuro made the objects and sences in the painting can form clear coverages from far to near vision under the same light. Owning to the restriction of tools and materials, the theme of humanism and the shape conception of seeking reality had not been improved.However,The characters of oil paintings tools and materials were approriate to reflect the theme of humanism and the shape conception of seeking reality. Thus, classical painting has become an image produced by the long-term, highly realistic operation.