The Research and Application of Xinjiang Folk Oil Painting

Xinjiang is the region with the largest number of ethnic minorities in China and the autonomous region with the largest area under the jurisdiction of China. It is this vast territory that gives birth to the living characteristics—“living in a large, small community”—of Xinjiang people, and gives birth to the diversified forms of Xinjiang folk culture. The folk culture of Xinjiang has laid a solid material foundation for the development and innovation of oil painting. The development of folk oil painting in Xinjiang is closely related to the innovation of oil painting techniques, and will certainly add a strong and heavy color to the history of painting in Xinjiang. The practice and innovation of integrating folk culture into oil painting makes the localization development of Chinese oil painting play an epoch-making significance, and has practical value for enriching the research of artistic historical materials.