Just as art grows and develops in close connection with human civilization, oil painting, as a major genre of
fine arts, has been playing an important role throughout the history of the development of art, from ancient
times to modern times and to contemporary times. Unique in its perceptive form, oil painting has a special and
magic power to epitomize the reality of life, to capture and retain the beautiful fleeting scenes in life and
turn them into everlasting spiritual wealth of mankind. The beautiful fleeting scenes and images as reflected by
the art of oil painting have a distinctive aesthetic value, different from and incomparable to those as
reflected by video works or movies. Neither are they similar to the photos as produced by photographers using
their cameras. A good oil painting is a combination of a variety of factors - the lines, the shapes, the colors,
the delicate chiaroscuro, the sense of the texture, the weight, and the space, etc.. A good oil painting should
be an accurate and truthful representation of objects and scenes at a particular time and in a particular
environment. Besides, choice of paints and other materials used in oil painting also plays an important role in
creating a good oil painting. Therefore, the development of oil painting also requires painstaking scientific
study. More importantly, a good oil painting should be able not only to represent the myriads of changes of
color, but also the unique feelings and character of the painter. It is precisely these distinctive attributes
that endow oil painting with a grand power of representation both in a concrete and artistic way and an
inexhaustible potential of development. This is also why good oil paintings always have a great value for
investment and collection.
Ms. Zhang, founder of Art Always Inc., is a fine arts collector herself for years. She has participated in a great
number of art exhibitions of various scales. She is not only a true connoisseur of the art of oil painting, but
also an experienced specialist in collecting Asian Arts (special collection ), with an innate vision for the trend of art market. She believes in "the art of painting
is also an art of culture", and thus also believes that a true connoisseur of painting must be able to
discern the character of the artist and analyze different schools of art. While dealing in art works, she also
loves to share experience with art lovers and thus promotes the exchange and circulation of art.
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