油画传入中国的时间可追溯到明朝,当时传入的主要是由西方传教士带入的宗教题材的油画。油画作为一种艺术形式而真正被国人接受和学习,是20世纪初伴随着“西学东渐”之风的现代美术教育不断推行的结果。如此算来,油画真正进入中国人的文化视野并被接受的时间其实并不长,只有一百多年。 Oil paintings were introduced to China dating back to the Ming Dynasty, when oil paintings of religious themes were introduced mainly by Western missionaries. As an art form, oil painting is really accepted and studied by the Chinese people. It is the result of the continuous implementation of modern art education with the style of “learning from west to east” in the early 20th century. In such a calculation, the time when oil painting really entered the Chinese cultural horizon and was accepted was not actually long, just over a hundred years.