Oil painting is a visual art, the basic visual elements of oil paintings are physical, lines, shading, texture, space and color.
The success of one oil painting depends on artists' comprehensive master and skilled use of oil painting's  basic visual elements.
Characteristic oil paintings are highlight use of certain basic elements, creating many artists' unique personal style.

Physical is the most basic elements in oil painting, which includes both shape and size. Shape is the outside of space
characteristic, size is the three-dimensional shape of object. When it comes to describe an object, physical has highly
performance, it requires artists master object's shape and characteristics, has acute visual response capability and profound
performance, as well as the ability of exploring the hidden performance value and aesthetic means in physical depth.

Line is the main means in painting style, human drew nature scene originally came from line. It the indispensable visual element in
painting art, capricious lines display artist's emotional experience. The tall and straight vertical lines are solemn, noble, there is
a sense of the eternal; the horizon lines show peace, calm, distance even death feeling; diagonal lines are full of tension,
movement, anxiety and danger sense; cross lines are quiet and solemn; irregular lines are of bitter sadness, irritability.

Clairobscure has three tones: black, white and gray, it's the most basic means of drawing expresssion. Various chiaroscuro colors
can display object's shape, space and texture vividly. From detailed characterization to sharp contrast, clairobscure colors
create rich visual scene. Bright color is calm and straightforward, dark color is heavy and mysterious. Black-white-interwoven
reflects artists' subjective feeling world.

Texture is a very vital performance element in realism oil painting, it can make people have touch desire. Because texture can
have a strong stimulation on vision, which arouses human excitement and impulse,  so realism oil painting is popular with people all
the time. In modern painting art, texture's concept has changed a lot, it's not only a vivid depiction of object, but it's also
different representations of materials themselves. Image's contrast and interet enriches visual language, enhancing image's spirit itself.

Space is the visual depth comes from two-dimensional images in painting art. Image space isn't a real space, it's the imitation of
real space, it's the illusion space created by lines, light and shade, color used by artisits, it's the distance space results from
human visual emotions. Big or small, high or low, false or true all can make a sense of space. In modern painting, painters use color
to create image space more and more.

Color and ligh-shade are inseparable, light-shade are reflected by color's lightness. Concocting colors can't only consider color's
light-shade, colorful world is composed of color, color is life. However, feeling of vision varies from person to person. On the on
hand, there are asthenopes and achromats. On the other hand, people's subjective emotions can have a direct impact on vision's
sensitivity on color and cold-warm, as well as people's like-dislike on different colors. Subjective colors form artists' different color face.