In the early years of the People's Republic of China, Chinese artists were encouraged to employ socialist realism. Some Soviet Union socialist realism was imported without modification, and painters were assigned subjects and expected to mass-produce paintings. This regimen was considerably relaxed in 1953, and after the Hundred Flowers Campaign of 1956-57, traditional Chinese painting experienced a significant revival. Along with these developments in professional art circles, there was a proliferation of peasant art depicting everyday life in the rural areas on wall murals and in open-air painting exhibitions.

During the Cultural Revolution, art schools were closed, and publication of art journals and major art exhibitions ceased with major destructions done as part of the elimination of Four Olds campaign.

Following the Cultural Revolution, art schools and professional organizations were reinstated. Exchanges were set up with groups of foreign artists. Chinese artists began to experiment with new subjects and techniques in their attempt to bring Chinese painting to a new height.

Father-Chinese Oil Painting

In contrast, western painting originated from ancient Greece and Rome and its development was contemporaneous with other art forms such as music, dance and sculpture. The contents that western paintings portrayed were closely associated with people’s daily life.

Mountains, water - Chinese Painting

Chinese landscape painting is created using ink brush, ink stick, ink stone and Xuan paper. Oil painting is the main type of western painting. Painters usually draw contents on cloth, board, canvas or thick paper with oily pigments. The characteristic of oil painting is the rich of colour that has a strong artistic expression and can express the realistic sense of the objects.

A River 1899

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Firstly, before you buy a painting you should know how the painter’s techniques are. You can see the painter’s attitude, skill as well as his love for the painting. Generally you can also experience the feeling when he creates it. The drawing of good works must be impeccable.

Secondly, the good works should have the independent discourse right, independent creation style and expression methods. The work itself can give you more information, and not depend on the introduction or the background to set off. The painting with clever expression does not impose more ideas to the vision.

Thirdly, good work will communicate to you more sense of cultural origin with their more cultural elements and not obey the rule that the art is subject to the business and the custom, because the culture can not be imitated. Too many style elements dependent on the foreign countries and compromise in business are very difficult to last for long.

Fourth, the artist must be calm, persistent, brilliant and serious. He needs to firmly adhere to the inner heart and the art. In the face of collectors and external public opinion he should have his own ideas.

Fifth, the good works will build a good connection with your inner heart and shock your vision. A work which can move you and others is the great work that you have found. Oil painting collection need the keen appreciation, I believe you will find your beloved masterpiece.

Landscape with river - Mounted - Chinese Painting

Firstly, the realistic type of painting, which plays the most important part in Chinese oil paintings. It is no coincidence, but the option of nearly a hundred years of traditional Chinese painting and art education. However, realistic painting was not highly developed. Among the early painters, students to Japan can only learn secondary oil painting, and although the students to the west were able to learn directly, it is difficult for them to reach a higher level for short learning time and lacking of corresponding painting environment since they returned home. Yet today, painters have more chances to go abroad, therefore, more standard realist painter emerged.

Secondly, the phenotype of oil painting, for the social and cultural transformation of the historic environment, and the reference and employment of European expressionism art traditions, phenotype oil painting has great development, which emerged a great number of talented works. But many painters have a tendency of ignoring skill, weakening nature of painting and stylizing it quickly. How to adhere to the unity of painting and individuality performance and strengthen the social value of personal expression, is a critical issue that phenotype of oil painting should face with.

The thirdly type is abstract painting. The emergence of abstract art has a lot to do with modern mechanical civilization and modern design, it refused themes and topics, depiction and reproduction, but pursuing form of painting and spiritual purity. In recent centuries, abstract painting are popular all over the world, emerged a wide range of genres and styles.

The last type is ideational type. Ideational type put the expression of meaning in the first place, while painting technique, the image of beauty and ugliness and the description are irrelevant. It means that for ideas, it can give up classical principles. The value lies in its spirit is the pursuit of ideal meanings, which are targeted with a social reality, so it is often ironic and critical.

Mandarin duck - Chinese painting

Peacock also symbolizes high ranking. So peacock painting is suitable to be given as a gift for hanging in the house or moving to a new house. In Fengshui theories, peacock represents yang, so nothing is a taboo to it.

Peacock&Peony - Chinese Painting

In China, peach is the wish for longevity. And it is regarded as a magic fruit and offered as a birthday present to the elders. Chinese ancient people believed that peach had the function of bringing auspiciousness and warding off evil, so peach has deep roots in the folk custom, the religion and the aesthetic standards. Images of Chinese peach paintings are supposed to attract long life and good health.

Peach - Chinese Painting