Function and Manifestation of Decorative Color in Oil Painting Creation

摘要

Decorative color is a kind of decorative means and it decorates the described object correspondingly based on the painter's subjective feelings and aesthetic analysis. It falls into two aspects. First, painting works with decorative color generally show a kind of design consciousness and the second nature designed and created by it is similar to realistic painting works. Second, since it exists in life for a long time and even exists among the broad audience, it becomes the most ordinary kind of art. Decorative painting works attract people in all ages and even become the kind of form preferred by Chinese folk. This paper mainly introduces application of decorative color in oil painting creation, researches and analyzes application of decorative color in oil painting creation through the research on painting masters' works, analysis on them and comparisons among them, and sorts out some features of decorative color in oil painting creation, like flatness, exaggeration, personalization and symbolization. If painters pay more attention to presentation techniques, their train of thought for composition will be expanded to some extent.