Oil Portrait Painting and Portrait Photography Modern

Long before the portrait photography was invented people use media canvas , oil , and sketches to describe what they love to show their children and grandchildren on a story or someone famous also their loved ones . Even in those days the art of oil painting portraits was very popular and loved by people in the medieval times .

Once man discovered the camera , art oil paintings ranging rarely found even the artists who was originally to be an artist painting oil portraits switch to portrait art . This is made painting oil portraits very hard to find and expensive that only wealthy people are usually able to buy the painting . They bought the painting just wanted to show their social status . Many portrait oil painting flooding the market , but only a few can be purchased only as an extension of the rest of it alone . Photographic portrait introduces a new art form to the masses . But when it is not able to capture the heart of the community for further recognizes photography . But gradually the art of oil painting began many people as for some have left it as the ancient art of ( ancient ) .



In first photography developed in European countries . The Spanish are famous painter Leonardo da Vinci painting Mona Lisa is painted in the 1500s , became one of the famous oil paintings until now , even his original painting valued at up to hundreds of billions . In addition to painting Mona Lisa , many oil paintings that began to develop in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries by famous artists such as Rembrandt and Gainsborough . Some of them are beautiful portrait paintings Portrait oil is preserved in the National Museum in Washington .

An art portrait oil painting depicting The History of at that time and events in the past . Each portrait art will surely describe what is being experienced by the artist whether it he describes a person , group of people , even depicts an inanimate object that is of no use .

Until now a lot of demand for oil paintings , most of them want a professional oil painting on canvas depicting herself . People are very enthusiastic about the portraits that will be created by an artist against themselves . They are willing to pay anything for the sake of an oil painting either for themselves or for their loved ones .

Painting portraits is also very good for home decoration classic theme and also offices . With this , up to now oil painting portraits have proven that they are in fact not an ancient art form that is not useful , but a work of art is no different from modern photographic art and its place there is no one who can take their place .