Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Raphael's Portrait Painting Phi Scarf Girl

19 said: Phi scarf girl
Period: about 1516
Creator: Italy
Specification: 85cm × 64cm
Materials: fabric paint
Keep possession at: Florence, Peter Di Gong Tibetan
"Phi Sand towel girl" also known as "Winter Nuowei Latta," rumored to Raphael's portrait painted for the loved one. Painter painting using a very rich language, full color performance, each showing a meticulous are serious about: girls flashing eyes, serene and smiling slightly with Qian's face ... ... the use of luxurious dress hundred folds Qianjiang and silver tone to the performance, with skin the color of the symbol. This bold use of bright color to transform the way the show Raphael's ease of use painting, oil painting in the 16th century in the West it is first. Due to the true object-based, work depicts an idealized female components to reduce, remove the unnecessary mystery, and enhance the image of realism, but with an ordinary shape of the aesthetic ideal of women.

Monday, August 29, 2011

New Landscape Oil Painting of Corot

If we see that hidden in Collection of "Mengte Fontaine's boatman," a painting, it is easy to understand this. "Mengte Fontaine's boatman," created in 1865-1870 years, selected with the "Mengte Fontaine memories," the same motif, constitute a similar picture, but in some places had been changed. Painter waters widened part of the composition in the middle of a more open, while the slope in the distance on the addition of a small temple, the people left from the three into one, and then also brighten the slope, reflection and shadow. Screen is still like "Mengte Fontaine memories" shrouded in silver and transparent general tone, filled with obscure and poetic. However, these changes place while filling the screen changes the structure of Corot in terms of lines, shape, mass, tone, and characters are reflective of the bricks cast frame structure, he arranged them according to abstract principles, to study the natural structure. And this structural change has brought a change in mood, in contrast seems to "Mengte Fontaine boatman" is even more cool some.


Corot landscape of the late 19th century's most influential and popular paintings, but also for the landscape to establish a new model.



Thursday, August 18, 2011

Degas and the Modern Art

As Renoir said: "Degas for" dance classes "a painting and enjoy the performance of the dynamic character of the master's reputation." Goncourt in an interview with French writer, said with emotion after Degas: "I have seen people, only his most brilliantly captures the atmosphere of modern life and modern spirit. "Degas painting to explore not only diligent, but also good at drawing on the strengths of others to supplement their own inadequate. With the art of his sincere and tireless efforts towards the success of history painting for the world to add a new page, the early development of modern art have made outstanding contributions, as generations of descendants admired master.


Degas (Edgar Degas, 1834 ----1917), was born in Paris, France, ancestors engaged in banking, is a local aristocratic family. Music-loving father, a good family environment made him grow a strong arts culture, 21 years old to enter the Academy of Fine Arts. The 1870s had lived with his family in the United States for some time, in the United States continue to show in Paris during the mind racing, ballet and opera, and completed a lot of work. To the 1890s, his work is almost dominated by women - the dancers and all kinds of models. He also accepted some of the spirit of Impressionist paintings, works that are often based on material and memory in the chamber. Had participated in the Impressionist exhibition of eight seven times, the development of early modern art had a significant impact, but also made a great contribution to knock.



Thursday, August 11, 2011

Expression in a Human World, "the Absolute Emotional High" - Newman and "Adam"

This is a huge work, brown stone colors covered the entire screen, but, three different widths of the red line to break the calm brown stone color, so that the screen produces a feeling of jumping. This is representative of Newman's work, "Adam" in its entirety. Screen, the extreme form has been simplified to an incredible extent, traditional painting techniques and aesthetic artists have all been abandoned, it seems only for people to sketch out the image of the mark, and the rest taken up by viewers to feel, to understand to think.


Newman said that this piece as a "zipper", looked carefully, despite their different widths, right of the screen giving the impression of a smooth thin bright red line, perfect; middle of the screen is slightly flawed; the left side of the screen of it appears to have lost the rigorous side of the boundaries, there is a rough feeling. In this work, Newman's performance is to land, and red theme, the theme of the elements of the birth of Adam is naturally presented. Newman is the American abstract painter best known representatives of Minimalism, his work behind the screen trying to guide people to feel some kind of concise and order, because it is the human mind with occasional flashes of spirituality and mystery are inextricably linked. Meanwhile, Newman will explain his work to the audience to provide direct experience with the "desire of the noble and natural person" and "absolute feeling and emotion" relevant. In 1948 he published the article "noble, now," claimed: "I work generated by the image, is to show the real and specific self-certification, they can be rid of those nostalgic glasses of history to understand people . "Therefore, the Newman's paintings marks the modern art from the" color field painting, "abstract expressionism to the change, but his history of the development of contemporary art has experienced a very long time to 'gradually been recognized. This is because, in the 20th century, throughout the 1930s, Newman's artistic career is almost stagnant, he did not participate in government-funded art project, which was not considered a true artist, for the simple reason, because he did not Government labels. The 20th century, 40 years later, Newman threw himself into the re-start the creation of modern art, he destroyed all his previous works, and began to explore a new artistic experiments. Until the late 1940s, personal style of painting gradually stand out, his creation has also been called "one world." Especially those on the screen a single color from a bright color extends from the top down, the Ministry has been in the end the end, this is his abstract expressionist painting of the basic features. His representative works are "one world", "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue," and so on.