Color Expression and Mood Creation in Imagery Oil Painting

Abstract

Oil painting is a traditional Western painting form. With the introduction of China and the influence of China’s traditional painting and aesthetics, the painting style became more distinctive, expanding a new development direction of oil painting, and thus imagery oil painting came into being. Color, as the most important element in imagery oil painting, mainly plays the role of mood creation and emotional expression. Many creators are good at injecting their thoughts and emotions into the paintings through color matching, so as to enhance the artistic expression of the paintings. This paper analyzes the color expression characteristics of imagery oil painting and explores the color expression techniques in imagery oil painting and mood creation of imagery oil painting from several aspects.