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When it comes to oil painting, some people's first reaction is expensive! Why is oil painting so expensive? How much time and energy does a painter spend on drawing a sketch painting? You'll see from below.

1. The beauty of color in oil painting

To appreciate oil paintings, you must appreciate the colors. The oil paintings before Impressionism mostly accepted realistic painting methods, detailed descriptions, and rigorous and meticulous look from far and near, but lost a lot of space, atmosphere and subtle color feelings. Countless color masters devoted themselves to the study of color science so that oil painting could have irreplaceable color beauty.

In order to complete a painting, many painters go to far away to sketch, go deep into nature, and feel the beauty of nature firsthand. It takes a lot of effort in the process. Do you know how much it costs to complete a painting?

2. Ever-changing brushstrokes
If we only want to record the beauty of nature, why do we still need to draw oil paintings with cameras?

Obviously, we need unique beauty. The unique brushstrokes are like the unique DNA of the artist, making their work unique. We can easily distinguish Van Gogh, Monet, and Seurat through brushstrokes. Either meticulous or bold, the flexibility and rhythm in the brushstrokes make the still picture of oil painting have infinite language.

Painting oil painting is time-consuming and labor-intensive. But it is time and effort that makes oil painting thick and formal. An oil painting may take several months or a year, several years or even more. In the process of painting, the painter needs to invest his emotions all the time. The resulting painting seems to tell his mood at the time. They painstakingly study and paint over and over again, and they not only paint for the sake of painting, but more importantly, they give the painting soul and make it "live".

3. The art of light and shadow is fascinating
In the same landscape, the painter distinguishes morning and evening with hues. Some oil paintings are not realistic, but the unique light and shadow can always move people.

4. The scene of oil painting is beautiful
Why do painters like to go to places with beautiful scenery to sketch from life? There are not only beautiful scenery in the oil painting, but also the author's own feelings. The painter does not copy the scenery mechanically, but also originates from life, higher than life, casting beauty with his years of precipitation!

The superb skills and profound knowledge gained through many years of time, money and energy. The artist would rather save money for meals or other pockets to buy books and painting materials. With hard-earned money to buy knowledge, we should understand and support it.

5. Oil painting is the carrier of art history
When mentioning culture, what comes to your mind? Classical oil paintings of the Renaissance? The masterpieces of Impressionism? Or the classic works of contemporary painters? Oil painting is a very important carrier in the history of art. An oil painting is also a cultural integration of its time.

This is why an oil painting is very expensive, but there are still countless people who like to buy and collect it. Appreciation of oil painting can bring us spiritual comfort and unlimited enjoyment of beauty.

Juan Miro is a 20th-century surrealist painter who is as famous as Picasso and Dali. He is also an artist with the most children's perspective. He likes to draw random lines and shapes on brightly colored backgrounds. Although the characters, scenery, and animals in the paintings are abstract, they are vivid and full of childishness.

Harlequin's Carnival, Joan Miro,1925

Juan Miro was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1893. He entered the Barcelona School of Fine Arts at the age of 14. He was regarded as "a rare foolishness" by the teachers because of his introversion and reluctance.

At the age of 17, Miro became a business clerk. Because of depression and overwork all day long, he broke down in less than a year, so his parents had to send him to the countryside for recuperation. After recovering from his illness, Miro chose to stick to his dream and enter another art school in Barcelona.

In 1919, Miro left his hometown and came to Paris, the art capital of the world. During this period, Paris was full of famous artists, art galleries and museum treasures. But no one cares about Miro's paintings. He starves almost every day in Paris. Fortunately, thanks to the blessing of fortune, he met many friends in the art circle, especially Picasso from his motherland. Picasso bought a self-portrait of him and kept it forever.

In 1925, Miro participated in the first surrealist exhibition held at the Pierre Art Museum and completed the first truly "surrealist painting-"Harlequin's Carnival". Since then, his works have been called dream paintings.

Self-portrait

Since 1930, Miro's works have been regularly displayed in New York and other cities. As a leader of surrealism, he has a great influence in the painting world, and his reputation is second only to Picasso.

There is no specific image in Miro's works, just like children's graffiti, full of childishness. He uses various colors to paint color blocks. In his paintings, whether it's people, scenery or animals, although they are abstract and lively, they seem relaxed and free, but even abstract paintings do not prevent us from using our brains to imagine and restore according to our life experience.

Blue II, Joan Miro, 1961

Dmitri Danish, a Ukrainian painter, was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1966. He was a born artist from the beginning, holding his first pencil when he first learned to walk but could not speak. His mother was also an artist and the first to discover Dmitry's talent.

She saw her child express his thoughts, feelings and desires through his creation, so she began to communicate with her son through colors and shapes. For Danes, painting is as natural as breathing, eating or sleeping. By the age of 5, Dmitri began to take his first professional painting course; he was able to paint high-quality landscape, portraits, still life and abstract paintings. At the age of 13, he was admitted to a gifted children's art school in Kharkiv. At the age of 15, he entered the Kharkiv State Academy of Arts.

Dmitri's favorite genre is the urban landscape. He drew the cities he read in books, the cities he heard on the radio or in people's conversations, and the cities he saw on stamps. He created new countries in his mind and painted their cities, streets, canals, doors and windows. Dmitri likes painting doors and windows most because of their symbolic appeal. They let him see and enter the unknown world, which he can't do in reality. His imagination can take him to the unusual and magical world he saw in his dreams.

In college, Dmitri was fascinated by the city of Kharkiv, where he was born and grew up. He painted all kinds of buildings, wooden houses and walls, small cafes under huge old trees, and doors and windows of his southern city. His paintings depict Kharkiv as a warm and comfortable place to live.