Wade was the first to enrich facial expressions in the portrayal of characters in oil paintings in Western art history, acclaimed as a master of emotional expression.
Due to social ideas, religious traditions, painting schools, and various miscellaneous reasons.
Before Wade's appearance, whether Kangping or Jan Aik, hailed as the inventor of oil painting by the academic world.
Each of them was undoubtedly skilled and talented.
However, observing late medieval artworks, without exception, there's a common point: the dying Jesus, the benevolent Holy Mother Mary, the cunning Judas... these figures all appear expressionless on the canvas.
This interestingly parallels the emphasis on "Treasure Appearance" in Eastern figure paintings.
All characters, whether happy or sad.
Painters of the late medieval period, around the 1400s, used the changes of ambient light and shadow, expressions of color, facial shadows, gazing eyes, and body movements to represent emotions.
