It is said that "art comes from life", but why do I still feel that art is very cold, I can't understand the meaning of the elements in the painters' pens, and I dare not talk about art easily?
The so-called art appreciation is a thousand faces, and people are only willing to see what they want to see. The level of appreciation we have of a work of art is influenced by our surroundings, our upbringing, and so on. In the same way, the creation of artists is also the same truth.
Mastering the artist's basic creative concept and creative environment will help us understand the art work to a large extent, if you feel that the thick art history is too difficult to understand, it is better to start with a relaxed film, feel the original intention of the artists in the film, so as to have a more comprehensive understanding of the work of art.
【1】Night Watch
Rembrandt's life went up and down, and with his excellent use of light and shadow, he became the top portrait painter of the times, in today's terms, the top kol. Born ordinary, relying on skills to get ahead, marrying Bai Fumei, a very inspirational experience, but in the end, he also planted on his own skills.
Night Watch is a collective portrait he created for the Amsterdam City Shooters Company, just like we take a big group photo now, who stands in the C position who is happy, who is beautiful and who is happy. Rembrandt innovatively uses unused light and shadow and perspective for the characters in the picture, so that the whole painting is not dull and monotonous, which is actually a kind of progress. But Party A does not buy it, everyone is also looking for you to paint, why can he stand in the C position to be painted clearly, I can't? In this way, Rembrandt's portrait painting career plummeted.
This shows us a truth, no matter what era and which industry, the likes of Party A's father are more important than anything.
[2] "The Girl with the Pearl Earring"
The title of the film is a world-famous painting, and the author is the Dutch painter Vermeer. Vermeer is a painter who likes to play games with "light", and his grasp of light and shadow makes his works three-dimensional and gentle.
This movie is more famous, in fact, in the strict sense, this movie is not very important for understanding the artist, for the sake of film effect, the film also has certain changes to historical facts, but the film is a well-made good film, so I can't help but recommend. The heroine is Scarlett Johansson, and as soon as she sees the widow's name, she has a little urge to go in and look at it.
Beautiful picture! arrive! obstruct! cease! The spreading ambiguous atmosphere can drown you out.
[3] "The Mystery of the Beloved Van Gogh Starry Sky"
If you want to say that the painter can be slightly heard of by the general public all over the world, Van Gogh must be counted as one.
Van Gogh is known for three key words: sunflower, one ear, and suicide.
He was an uncompromising tragic painter who embarked on the path of painter despite his father's objections, but remained obscure, and before his father died, Van Gogh failed to prove to him that his choice was correct. Moreover, in his short life, he could not wait for his own Bole. He never sold a single painting in his lifetime, and lived with the support of his younger brother Theo, a genius of the wrong era.
What's special about this film is that the shots are made of more than 60,000 Van Gogh-style paintings, where you can see many familiar paintings, and, a lonely man.
[4] Shirley: A Vision of Reality
Shocking beauty, the film picture of the original restoration degree of 99.99999%!
If Edward Hope lived in the modern era, he must be a good street photographer, and he must have a novel private world in his heart.
The film is inspired by 13 paintings by the American painter Edward Hope, which constitute a realistic landscape of American social history. The gospel of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the picture is clean and tidy.
[5] "Frida"
If you look through the history of art, you will find that there are very few famous female painters, which have a lot to do with religious beliefs and social hierarchy. Frida is a distinctively iconic female painter in Mexico who has lived longer than Van Gogh, but she has experienced no less pain than Van Gogh.
At the age of 18, the bus and tram collided, and a metal handrail penetrated her abdomen, rendering her infertile and accompanying her with illness for the rest of her life. According to Frida's own self-description, the film recreates this painful scene in a beautiful form of picture display.
Frida encountered 2 demons in her life, one was a car accident and the other was her husband Rivera. Two artists fall in love, will they be happy for a lifetime? On this issue, you can refer to Antonio and Maria in Midnight barcelona.
Frida was a respectable and strong woman who lived in a place with many small animals and plants, and despite the great suffering she suffered throughout her life, she still loved life and loved life.
[6] "Picasso's Strange Journey"
Picasso is really a little old man who makes people love and hate, and he is free from a big scumbag. But his artistic talent and otherworldly, grotesque, nonsensical state of life can't help but make people love crazy.
This movie is not a well-made film, but through the movie, everyone can understand the happy life of a funny little old man.
[7] "Pollock"
In fact, most of the art paintings are easy to understand, whether they paint people or landscapes, at a glance, but what about Pollock's works? Em...... Seriously, I can't understand it anyway.
Pollock was a pioneer in performance art (I classify works that sell ideas as performance art), and self-isolation was the catalyst for his anti-traditional ideas, after all, it is often said that the world of artists is incomprehensible to ordinary people.
In order to shoot this film, director and male protagonist Ed Harris spent 10 years preparing, and this alone makes this film worth watching.
[8] Kusama's favorite
Finally, I recommend a Japanese modern artist, Yayoi Kusama.
High-energy warning! Intensive phobia please back off! Even if you haven't heard Kusama's name, you must have seen her work. The iconic speckled pumpkin paired with her eye-catching rosy red hair, the sassy and stylish old lady is out on the street!