<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, Sunrise Impression Appreciation:</h1>
(1) Understand the background of the era in which the work was produced and the author profile
This classic oil painting is a sketch painted in 1872 in the port of Havre by the French painter Monet, who is known as the "father of Impressionism", one of the most important painters in France, and the theory and practice of Impressionism are mainly popularized by him. "Sunrise Impression" is the first work of Impressionist painting, which marks the birth of Impressionist painting. According to the data, although the founder of Impressionism is Manet, it is Monet who really makes it flourish, because his fascination with light and shadow has reached the point of becoming so enchanted that he has been obsessed with the light and shadow brought by the sun all his life.
"Impressions of the Sunrise", which was exhibited in 1874, was first ridiculed and slandered, and some critics joked: "The rough paste wallpaper is also more complete than this sea view!" Some people even used the title of this painting to satirize these young artists led by Monet as "Impressionists", so "Impressionism" naturally became synonymous with this school. As a trend of art thought, Impressionist painting has an important position in the history of world art, which has promoted the innovation of art techniques and the transformation of concepts in the future, and has had a great impact on painters in Europe, America and even China in the process of learning Western painting. #Micro Headline Master Group ##Art ##油画 #
(2) Look at the composition layout of the picture, the relationship between the background and the subject.
Through this work, we can intuitively feel the rising scene of a red sun in the distance, the fog that has not yet faded in the morning sky is dyed orange by the newly rising sun, and the red sun reflected in the sea water of the port adds a little bit of early morning vitality and vitality to the sea, several small boats gradually appear more and more blurred from near to far, the figures on the ship are still faintly visible, and it can be seen in the haze that there are still wisps of green smoke in the chimney of the factory in the distance, and the cranes on the big ship are also mixed with water vapor and fog, and the water ripples are different in length , thick and thin brushstrokes to express, giving people a sense of sparkling, blue waves, using the sunrise impression to describe the picture is too appropriate.
(3) Appreciate the inner world that the author wants to express through the grasp of the tone and warmth of the work
Monet shows people a work composed of lilac, reddish, orange and yellow in a cool tone by depicting the early morning sunrise in the port of Havre, France, and the cool and warm tones in the work are just right to show the cool and fluttering morning sun brings people a little warm scene, and the painter shows the author's happy and relaxed mood when painting in the morning through the reflection of the swaying reflection of the sea and the wisps of green smoke rising from the chimney in the distance If Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is to paint through reason, then "Sunrise Impression" is a perceptual factor brought into rational expression. The sunrise is a symbol of life and hope, perhaps because of the beautiful meaning of this impressionist pioneering work, it is better for the Impressionists to go on this road dominated by light and color, laying a solid foundation for the more diversified development of post-impressionism and neo-impressionism, and has had a great impact on the concepts of many modern painting schools.
(4) Objective appreciation of works
Although today we feel so dazzling when we appreciate the works of impressionism, and many art academies have studios to study Impressionism, so that many graduate students study impressionism, but this is a rebellion of art for salon academy artists more than a century ago. The painting expresses a momentary visual sensation through a lively and vivid way of painting, and from the picture, it can be seen that the cautious and clear silhouette, dull and rigid tones that were previously promoted by the official academic art are gone. This rebellious painting provoked official opposition. But today, Impressionist painting undoubtedly shines brightly.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > two, the definition of abstract oil painting and the appreciation of abstract classic oil painting</h1>
Abstract art refers to art without concrete images, or non-reproducibility, and abstraction in art has a unique ineffability. Abstract painting is defined as: "a purely visual form that is not figurative, irrational." There are three connotations: first, abstract paintings do not depict, do not express the objective image of the real world, nor reflect real life; secondly, there is no painting theme, no logical story and interpretation, neither expressing thoughts nor transmitting personal emotions; third, purely by color, points, lines, surfaces, textures, combinations, composition of visual forms. "The basic feature of abstract painting is the abolition of the concrete depiction of objects and the use of emotional methods to express ideas and painting.
It is a fusion of various anti-traditional artistic influences, especially from Fauvism and Cubism. The "abstract" painting mentioned in the history of art is different from the "abstract" painting that we usually define in our art textbooks, "abstraction" is mainly represented by Kandinsky as the hot abstraction and the cold abstraction represented by Mondrian, these works have entered a higher spiritual level, it often expresses an artistic concept, and its picture abandons the specific content and plot, highlighting the use of points, lines, surfaces, color blocks, composition and other pure painting language, expressing the inner feelings, rhythms, emotions and other abstract content. "Abstract" oil painting usually takes intuition and imagination as the starting point of creation, rejects any symbolic, literary and illustrative expression methods, and only synthesizes and organizes shapes and colors, completely subverting the traditional aesthetic concept. The beauty of the ideal and the beauty of nature are things that abstract oil painting strives to get rid of and avoid, so it is difficult to understand.
The abstract oil paintings we are talking about can be understood as the form of painting as opposed to realistic oil paintings, and the non-realistic oil paintings in Western modern art in middle school textbooks. But whether it is "Guernica" by Picasso, the founder of Cubism, or "Dance" by Matisse, the founder of Fauvism, what they have in common is that they greatly depreciate the figurative realism of the picture. Picasso's pursuit of Cubism and matisse's strong color of Fauvism have not yet removed figurative structure and inner meaning. Furthermore, Kandinsky demanded the abolition of objects and the expression of inner meaning, and Kandinsky proposed this ideal from the revelation of music, as Schopenhauer said: "All art yearns for the mood of music" [3],
Thus, like Kandinsky's Abstract Watercolor in 1910, it is difficult to understand the idea of his creation without any introduction. Mondrian took inspiration from architecture, and developed a tendency to geometric composition through Cubism, and his group painting "Tree", which was constantly abstracted by the subject of "tree", was all the rage, and later focused on the exploration of neo-plastic art, which used only right angles in the horizontal position in composition and only three primary colors and black and white gray in color. This configuration has a unique aesthetic effect, but the meaning given by the painter is not explanatory.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > three, "The Composition of Red, Yellow and Blue" Appreciation</h1>
"The Composition of Red, Yellow and Blue" is a series of oil paintings by the Dutch painter Mondrian, who looks at the problem from an anthropological point of view, seeking the essence of things, the eternal side of things. "Ash Tree" heralds Mondrian's quest for abstraction and the imminent abandonment of rich colors. His works of red, yellow and blue compositions can be reminiscent of the design drawings of some buildings, but this is the originality of the painter and there is no prototype. Mondrian expresses his artistic point of view through eternal truth, attains eternal harmony, realizes the ideal of perfection, and transcends all worldly sufferings and misfortunes that he dreams of expressing.
When Mondrian returned to Paris in 1921, he had found a universal formula that he had fixed: it was a lattice structure of eight parts. Mondrian writes here: "In my early paintings, space still prescribed the background. When I felt a lack of unity, I concentrated on using right angles and turned the space into white, black and gray, with the rest painted in red, yellow, and blue. Rectangles as forms are canceled and lose their utility". Mondrian writes innumerable variations in its not-so-rich visual language, perhaps intended to express only one thing, the eternal spiritual structure. He constantly changes the distance between the same patches of color in the square, and this distance is generated in the different relationships of the rectangle. In fact, those works that always have a sense of harmony give us all kinds of sensory tendencies. It is this sense of harmony that convinces us that the vertical lines are equivalent to our upright bodies, the horizontal lines are equivalent to the ground, and that we have acquired the carefree state of mind that people have in a safe house, even when the rectangle has become the corner of the painting.
What does this painting of composition bring to us through Mondrian? First, the initial color effect changes with the development of painting and the different forms; second, because of the different tonal concentrations, two color zones of different sizes can express the same connotation; third, harmony is obtained by relying on rectangles of different sizes, that is, strong contrast. From these works by Mondrian, we can see the in-depth thinking and practice of an artist about art itself, and his art does not exist for imitation, but pursues an eternal spirit.
<h1 class= pgc-h-arrow-right > four, Duchamp's Descending the Stairs appreciation</h1>
This "Nude Woman Descending the Stairs" is an oil painting created by Duchamp, an important representative of Dadaism, in 1912, which differs from other oil paintings in that it is an oil painting painted on glass, which contains the common characteristics of Cubism's pursuit of fragmentation, analysis, and recombination of forms and the characteristics of the continuity of time expressed by Futurism. The appearance of erotic figures cannot be seen from the picture, and only the mechanical schema with perspective angle can loom, and this glass painting is interpreted by him as a complex love machine [4].
At the same time, this work is also the culmination of his painting career. In fact, he thus ended his painting activity, which he wanted to express in machine and mathematical ways the circulatory, respiratory, digestive, and reproductive systems of higher animals, meaningless except to contain sociological irony. "Perhaps the culture we accept is difficult to understand what this section describes, but to understand this work, we must have an understanding of Duchamp as a person, and this work he painted is not just an oil painting, but more of an infiltration of his own ideas. We can see unusual ideas in the materials he uses, such as Duchamp not painting on canvas, but on glass. This work is a work of the most popular period of Cubism and Futurism, which negates the expression of traditional artistic ideas. The Downstairs takes time and motion as the object of investigation, and he has become skeptical of the aesthetics of traditional still objects, no longer subordinated to the sensual beauty of the retina, which means the beginning of a new idea, a window towards something else quietly opens, and new rules of the art game rather than traditional aesthetic rules are being born in silence.
Duchamp's work combines not only the ideas of Cubism that prevailed at the time, in addition to the collage of three-dimensional figures, but also the ideas of Futurism, showing the passage of time and speed, in which Futurism declares: "We will do our utmost to fight against the old beliefs of blind faith, obsolete, inspired by the museum of sin." It can be seen from his thoughts that futurism is a breakthrough in tradition, he broke the old stereotypes of the past, and boldly tried to find new ways from all aspects, such as the oil painting "Nude Woman Descending the Stairs", which is drawn from a glass plate, using geometric shapes to express a state of time continuity, which is undoubtedly a new challenge to traditional ideas. The author Duchamp has been called "the key to understanding Western art", his appearance changed the course of Western modern art, and he is one of the representatives and founders of Surrealism and Dadaism. Therefore, the artist's prestige in the history of art is also pivotal. Author/Zhao Wenbo