Modern Life Oil Painting: Individual Life Perception and Urban Life Expression

Modern life oil painting, developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, adapts to the transformation of modern urban civilization, takes urban life and individual life perception as the core, and realizes the modern transformation of life art themes and connotations. With the rapid development of industrial civilization and urbanization, people’s life mode and living environment have changed completely. Traditional rural and court life scenes are replaced by urban streets, public spaces and modern family life, and life oil painting themes turn to modern urban life.

In terms of artistic language, modern life oil painting absorbs the light-color expression of Impressionism and the subjective expression of modern art, with more flexible brushstrokes and richer colors. It abandons the rigorous and realistic scene restoration of traditional life painting, and pays more attention to capturing the instantaneous life state and subjective perceptual experience, making life oil painting more in line with the aesthetic characteristics and spiritual needs of modern urban life, and completing the modern innovation of life art.