油画作为纯粹的艺术在中国传播,只有100来年的历史。20世纪初,当西方艺术走向现代主义道路、冷落写实艺术时,欧洲的古典写实油画却受到中国大众的青睐。其实,画界虽有力倡现代主义艺术的声音,但处于大变革过程当中的中国社会,因需要用艺术作为启迪大众智慧、推进改革的手段,仍然选择了雅俗共 Oil painting as a pure art spread in China, only 100 years of history. At the beginning of the 20th century, when Western art moved toward the modernist path and left realism art blankly, classical European realistic oil painting was favored by the Chinese public. In fact, although the art circles are energetically advocating the voice of modernist art, Chinese society, which is in the process of great changes, has chosen to use the arts as a means of enlightening the public’s wisdom and pushing forward reform.