In 1839, after Daguerre invented the continuous photographic moving picture, people smoothly developed into cinema, a new form of entertainment that changed the mode of human entertainment. After hundreds of years of development, contemporary film has become a crystallization of human comprehensive science and technology and culture, and has become a major embodiment of human civilization. However, before the invention of cinema, how to express the stories and scenes that had already happened was the task of the history painter.
In Europe, there was a series of large history painters who influenced Russia and then China. In fact, we are looking for the vein of figurative thinking in oil paintings, largely because of the enlightenment of historical oil paintings.
Historicist painters, originated in Italy and developed in France. Like other social functions of oil painting, historical painting was first and foremost for religious purposes, and then for political tasks. Like many of our painters who have won awards in art competitions today, they are still tirelessly depicting scenes of life, and this style of painting is a simplified version of history painters.
Here are the classic paintings of a French history painter, Paul de la Roche.
