Over the years, my concern in realism oil painting or a range of combination of realism and Impressionism, image clarity in "between like and unlike" range. I think "representational realism oil painting" is a good cover this scope. Representational art has a long history of extremely, extremely wide range, it only as opposed to abstract. But in this article need "realistic" aided in this word, it helps to set aside all the visible but non-realistic art style. "Realistic" literally means "to describe things in real" image concept is greater than the concept of realistic oil paintings realistic oil paintings. Discussion on development prospects of representational realism portrait oil painting in China, Chairman of the China Institute of oil painting, Zhan Jianjun has provided us with rich connotation of the theory of representational realism oil painting. In 2001, he accepted the magazine interview with United States Court had a brilliant exposition: "is also a traditional representational realism art in China, there is a limitation in our ideas of the past, is the realistic limits of painting in the realist tradition in the West, by Western road from classicism to 19th century development of realistic oil paintings, realism to the extreme, to an end. In fact, development of contemporary Western representational art is still going on, but now the representational painting and traditional Western representational painting is different. Modern representational painting has absorbed some results in the development of modern painting, combined with some of the concepts and techniques of modern art materials. Oil painting in China, national cultural art traditions are a huge, abundant resources, means and the understanding of the characteristics of the oil painting oil painting from the cultural point of view, starting from the Chinese aesthetic, bold creativity and exploration, this will open up an infinite space, including images of china oil painting reproductions  will be showing a bright scene. "Art theorist Wang Zhong was made on" real "argument. He called art of Sun and health, in an article called for "contemporary painters of two large capacity requires trained, is realistic, one is solid. Consolidation means artists according to their own aesthetics pursuit of variations, alternative reality object painting, ' and not ' pursuit of open land between looking for the artist's unique painting, with a view to making the field of painting, showing more rich look. "He also pointed out that" modernist masters never learn, reference and reference only, as each specific ' modern masters ' only means that he is the ' consolidation ' do not repeat cases. "He proposed" consolidation "in theory, the concept of a Chinese perspective to open the prospect of infinite wealth of representational realism oil painting, elimination of people to blindly follow found focus on interpretation of modern and Chinese concrete realistic oil paintings at the broader level of creativity.
Solid brushed aside the question by Mr Wang Zhong various "text art" surrounded and modification of painting, painting nature of practice. I understand it is: according to its own image of the painting and painting forms creation needs with point, line, surface, light, color, shade, strokes, textures, material form of sth Painting, realistic forms conversion and change of image, through exaggeration, choose, change, disassemble, recombination, mutation and other artistic forms of representational realism painting process. Representational realism oil painting is a very broad concept. Abstract art limitless, representational realism art also has a wide range of space.