On the Planar Language in Modernist Oil Painting

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Western painting had a revolutionary change, the rise of modernist painting, artistic thinking from the traditional into the modern. The characteristics of traditional painting emphasizing perspective, sketch and light and shadow gradually disappeared, while the planar painting language gradually became popular. This paper analyzes the development of oil painting language and probes into the realistic significance and existing problems of flat oil painting language in contemporary oil painting creation. Only by comprehensively studying the flatness of oil painting language can we better expand the richness of oil painting language.