油画从16世纪起即由西方来华传教士介绍到中国来,但中国人真正开始油画艺术创作始于19世纪末,至今只有100多年的历史。对欧洲油画,中国知识界经历了从误解、排斥到接受、赞赏以至推崇,再到理性分析、融合、创造的过程。从19世纪末到20世纪30年代,中国派遣数以百计的青年学子到日本、西欧(主要是法国、比利时)去学习西方绘画与雕刻,其中学习油画的居多。20世纪 Since the 16th century, oil paintings were introduced to China by missionaries from the West to China. However, Chinese people really started their oil painting art since the late 19th century, up to now, only 100 years old. For European paintings, the Chinese intellectuals have undergone a process from misunderstanding, exclusion to acceptance, appreciation and even esteem to rational analysis, integration and creation. From the late 19th century to the 1930s, China dispatched hundreds of young students to go to Japan and Western Europe (mainly France and Belgium) to study Western painting and sculpture, in which they mostly studied oil painting. 20th Century