The greatest charm of painting lies in the following four points: shape, light, color, strokes.

Firstly, modeling is the basic of painting, that is to say, whether it like the prototype or not. Next, paintings often use light to represent three-dimensional and sense of space. Throughout the history of western painting, the effect of light mainly reflected in two points, which is real and ideal. The so-called “real”, in western painting, is the construction of an expression of the “real” world in the use of light. While the so-called “ideal”, refers to the expression of the “ideal” world in the use of light. Thirdly, Color is the most attracting part of painting, so it mainly relies on the beauty of colors that the paintings impress the readers. If a painting has little colors, it may unattractive. Painting chromatolysis is the essence of modern painting, especially after the impressionist painter Claude Monet, painting theories and methods are widely used by modern painters. It particularly emphasizes the inherent color, illuminant color and ambient color of the object and their mutual relations. In short, the color of the object is not entirely inherent color, but it also has the effect of the reflective of light and surroundings. That is why the painting looks particularly realistic.

What’s more, brushstrokes are the traces in the canvas that represents painter’s ideas and thoughts. No matter it is unrestrained or delicate, calm or warm, they all reflects the artist’s feelings and mood. In the modern paintings, painters always use strokes, and even some of them piled the pigment to make it thickly, that is what we should also pay attention to when we appreciate the paintings.