Friends who like oil painting can easily find that in a large number of western oil paintings, including many classic oil paintings, more than 80% are women as the main body and theme. For example, Mona Lisa, The Virgin Mary, Three Beauties, Sleeping Venus, Paradise Love and Secular Love, Earth and Water, venus at her mirror, Spring, The Coming of Spring, Athena and so on. Many people want to know why this phenomenon occurs in western oil paintings. The author analyzes the reasons, which can be summarized as follows:

First of all, western art has a tradition of expressing female themes.

Western art has a tradition of expressing female themes. As early as 2500 years ago in ancient Greece and Rome, there was a custom of worshipping women and procreation in the West. At that time, most myths and legends reflected women's themes, such as Venus, Athena, three beautiful gods, and so on. Sculptures in ancient Greece and Rome also had works with women's themes. Since ancient Greece, it has been handed down from generation to generation, forming a tradition.

Second, women's physical appearance can highlight the characteristics of human beauty.

Finding beauty, shaping beauty and expressing beauty are the basic functions and essential characteristics of art. /kloc-After the successful development of western oil painting in the 5th century, painters found in their creative practice that women's dignified and beautiful appearance, rugged facial features, rich and rhythmic body curves, soft and delicate skin and a head of hair, etc., highlighted the characteristics of human beauty, especially the realistic oil painting with figurative modeling, which can show female beauty to the fullest. This kind of beauty is irreplaceable and incomparable to other beauty.

Thirdly, women's action expressions can fully express the theme connotation, thoughts and feelings of oil paintings.

Women not only highlight the characteristics of human beauty in physical appearance, but also have various expressions and movements. People often use beautiful words such as "amorous feelings", "tender and sexy", "charming and enchanting", "graceful and colorful", "full of emotion" and "exquisite and delicate" to describe women's rich and varied expressions and actions, which is more conducive to the painter to express the theme connotation, thoughts and feelings of artistic works when creating. For example, oil paintings in the Renaissance take women as the main body and theme, expressing people's desires, beautiful visions and thoughts and feelings.

Fourth, women's oil paintings are liked by more people.

Female oil paintings are more popular because they are more elegant and aesthetic. Not only men like female oil paintings, but also women like female oil paintings. For example, in France19th century, many oil paintings with female themes were ordered by your wife. The angel's maid-in-waiting was Napoleon's sister, Princess Caroline of Naples, and the portrait of Lady Riviere was customized by Lady Riviere herself. Wait a minute. There is no painter who doesn't want his works to be liked by more people. The extensive social foundation of female oil paintings urges painters to create female oil paintings.

Fifth, women's oil paintings have more market.

Since the appearance of oil painting, female oil painting has shown its market competitiveness and market share. For example, during the Renaissance, a large number of women's oil paintings were customized by buyers in advance, and many of them were customized by medici family, a rich man at that time. With the maturity of western painting market mechanism, women's oil paintings have more and more markets. Interest-driven is also an important reason why western oil paintings take women as the main body and theme.