Oil Painting

Examples of Oil Painting in the following topics:

• Oil Painting

  • Oil painting did not gain popularity in Europe until the fifteenth century.
  • Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments bound with a medium of drying oil.
  • Oil painting techniques likely migrated from Afghanistan and China to Europe during the Middle Ages.
  • Giorgione's The Tempest is one of the most famous Venetian oil paintings of the 16th century.
  • Compare and contrast oil painting with earlier techniques, such as tempera.

• Oil

  • Oil painting is the most commonly used of all the painting mediums and involves painting with pigments that have been mixed with an oil binder.
  • Oil painting is the most commonly used painting medium and involves painting with pigments that have been mixed with an oil binder.
  • It was believed that oil painting developed in Europe in the 15th century; however, recent scholars have noted the use of oil-based paints in Afghanistan as early as the 7th century.
  • During the 15th century oil paint became the principal medium used to create works of art, spreading outwards from Early Netherlandish painting schools in northern Europe until the high Renaissance, when oil paint had replaced tempera paint completely throughout the majority of the continent .
  • Most oil paintings are painted with brushes, but it is not uncommon for artists to use palette knives, rags or any tool at all to paint with.

• Tempera

  • Tempera paint, also known as egg tempera, is a water-soluble paint made from a mixture of pigment in an egg yolk binder.
  • Tempera paint, also known as egg tempera, is a water-soluble paint made from a mixture of pigment in an egg yolk binder.
  • Tempera was the primary paint used until about 1400, at which point oil paint became more prominent.
  • Because of the transparency of the paint, paintings in tempera rarely exhibit the deep saturation of color that can be achieved with oil paint.
  • However, unlike oil paintings which fade and yellow as time passes, once the varnish has been applied the colors deepen and do not change over time.

• Japanese Art in the Meiji Period

  • Western style painting (Yōga) was officially promoted by the government, who sent promising young artists abroad for studies.
  • The Yōga, style encompassed oil painting, watercolors, pastels, ink sketches, lithography, etching, and other techniques developed in western culture.
  • Yōga style painting of the Meiji period by Kuroda Seiki (1893)
  • Yōga, in its broadest sense, encompasses oil painting, watercolors, pastels, ink sketches, lithography, etching, and other techniques developed in western culture.
  • However, in a more limited sense, Yōga is sometimes used specifically to refer to oil painting.

• Graphic Arts

  • Painting with oil on canvas did not become popular until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and was a hallmark of Renaissance art.
  • Painters, such as Robert Campin and Jan van Eyck, made use of the technique of oil painting to create minutely detailed works, correct in perspective, where apparent realism was combined with richly complex symbolism arising precisely from the realistic detail they could now include, even in small works.
  • In early Netherlandish painting, from the richest cities of northern Europe, a new minute realism in oil painting was combined with subtle and complex theological allusions, expressed precisely through the highly detailed settings of religious scenes.
  • For the wealthy, small panel paintings, even polyptychs in oil painting, were becoming increasingly popular, often showing donor portraits alongside, though often much smaller than, the Virgin or saints depicted.
  • Describe the frescoes, illuminated manuscripts, oil on canvas, and stained glass of the Holy Roman Empire during the 15th and 16th centuries.

• Gouache

  • Gouache is a water-soluble painting medium that is very similar to watercolor .
  • "Guazzo", the Italian word for gouache, was originally the term for the early 16th century practice of applying oil paint over a tempera base.
  • As a painting medium, gouache is prized for its durability and drying speed.
  • Like many painting mediums, gouache can be used on multiple supports, including board, paper and canvas.
  • While gouache paints have many similarities to watercolors, gouache paint is opaque.

• Painting in the High Renaissance

  • The factors that contributed to the development of High Renaissance painting were twofold.  
  • Traditionally, Italian artists had painted in tempera paint.  
  • During the High Renaissance, artists began to use oil paints, which are easier to manipulate and able to create softer forms.
  • The prime example of High Renaissance painting is The School of Athens by Raphael.
  • The School of Athens, painted by Raphael between 1509 and 1511, represents the style of High Renaissance painting which was centered in Rome during this period.

• Panel Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • During this time period, works of art were often painted on wooden panels and are referred to as "tempera on panel" or "oil on panel."
  • A panel painting is a painting made on a flat panel made of wood, either a single piece or a number of pieces joined together.
  • Until canvas became the more popular support medium in the 16th century, panels were the normal form of support for a painting not painted directly onto a wall (known as a fresco), or vellum, which was used for miniatures in illuminated manuscripts and paintings for the framing.
  • Durer, as most painters during this time period, would paint on wood panels.
  • His Self-Portrait, for example, was painted on a wooden panel.

• Modern Chinese Painting

  • Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world.
  • Traditional painting involves essentially the same techniques as calligraphy and is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink (oils are not typically used).
  • New styles were created by integrating traditional Chinese and Western painting techniques, such as Heaven Style Painting as exemplified by artist Shaoqiang Chen.
  • A wall scroll painted by Ma Lin on or before 1246.
  • Shaoqiang Chen created a new style of Chinese painting in the 21st century known as Heaven Style painting.

• Encaustic

  • Encaustic painting involves painting with a mixture of heated beeswax to which colored pigments have been added.
  • Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves painting with a mixture of heated beeswax to which colored pigments have been added.
  • Because the wax cools quite quickly it is important to paint swiftly.
  • The simplest encaustic mixture can be made from adding pigments to beeswax, but there are numerous recipes that can be used, such as other types of waxes, damar resin, or linseed oil.
  • Encaustic painting is thought to have been around since as early as the 4th century BC.