Realistic oil painting came into being during the Renaissance in Europe, which is what we often call "classicism" oil painting. Its greatest feature is realism. Representative painters of the Renaissance, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, giorgione and Titian, almost all of their oil paintings are realistic. Among them, Raphael and giorgione are outstanding representatives of classical aestheticism and realism. The Virgin Mary, Raphael's three beauties, and Venus, Giorgione's sleeping beauty, almost showed the beauty of women to the extreme.
/kloc-in the 20th century, neoclassicism based on classical realism promoted the development of realistic oil painting. Angel Fountain, bouguereau's "Awakening of the Mind" and other series of female oil paintings, Gvid's "Athena" series, etc. Which is not a beautiful, elegant and beautiful realistic oil painting?
Surrealism oil painting came into being in 1960s, which is a realistic oil painting technique based on realism oil painting and evolved from photography technology. Its biggest feature is that it is more realistic, especially the details are more delicate and even subtle. But because of this, the ultra-realistic oil painting is more in line with the reference model in appearance. What does the model look like and what does the surreal oil painting look like as a photo? Not all of them are beautiful. For example, we see Yang Yunfei and the cold surreal portrait oil paintings.
The beauty and ugliness in oil painting lies not in realistic oil painting or ultra-realistic oil painting, but in the theme that the work wants to express and the model selected. Realistic oil painting and ultra-realistic oil painting have no problem in depicting the beauty and expression of characters.