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The oil painting is amazing. Though, few people know the inventor of oil painting.

Using oil to paint has been tried in the Byzantine era. According to the report, this painting will not dry exposed under the sun for a few months. In 1200, the monk Francis Ross wrote a essay called "a variety of art forms" on the painting. In this paper, he introduced the procedure of Linseed Oil and the Arab resin. At the end of the thirteen century, there were paintings related to oil painting in the British Isles. At the end of the fourteen century, the two painters Van Eyck brothers in the Netherlands who used the oil to melt pigment formed pure oil painting. Even though art historians cannot conclude that the Van Eyck brothers are the inventors of oil painting, they found an ideal oil-based painting at the basis of previous experiments.

Many experts think that their greatest success is putting the resin into the oil so that the writing can be flowing and dry quickly. The foremost one who studied and mastered the techniques of oil painting painter in Italy is Antonueuo De Messina (1430-1479). It was said that he trained the usage of oil painting in Venice after he learnt the Van Eyck brothers’ painting techniques in the Netherlands. Then oil painting became well-liked as an independent painting in Europe.

For hundreds of years, oil painting are further developed and improved after the sequence of generations and the creation of the artist. The oil painting has been the periods of the classical, modern and existing. The painting in different times is being affected by the control of the different art ideological and the constraint of techniques, showing a different feature.

XU Beihong
Born: July 19, 1895(1895-07-19)Yixing, Jiangsu China
Died: September 26, 1953 (aged 58)d. He is famous oil painter as well as masters of Chinese ink painting in the 20th century. He was also regarded as one of the first to create monumental oil paintings with epic Chinese themes - a show of his high proficiency in an essential Western art technique

Xu Beihong was trained in the tradition of academism in Paris and was a painter of realism. He insisted profoundly on the training of sketch drawing and the precision of perspectives. He strongly believed the first objective of art was realism and real life was the source of art. The other major contribution he made was his effort to improve Chinese traditional painting skill by integrating with that of the western classical realism. On the other hand, he also tried to use the elements of person emotions of Chinese paintings in his oil paintings. Similar to Li Shutong, (1880-1942) a master of poet, calligraphy and painting, Xu Beihong's oil paintings were full of Chinese characteristics though he used the traditional western painting techniques.

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