World-famous French oil painter—Gauguin:

Simplified huge shapes, uniform and single colors, divisionism, light without shadows, abstraction of sketches and colors, detachment Naturally, this is the art discovered and founded by Gauguin. But his fantasy and art had nowhere to go in his own country, so on February 23, 1891, he auctioned 30 works and got a profit. On April 4, he took a boat to Tahiti and experienced happiness and joy. After suffering many hardships, he returned to France after painting many paintings.

He held his "Tahiti" painting exhibition in November 1893. The result was a complete failure and his material income was zero. And his novel, mysterious and brutal paintings have won some admirers. The ridicule of the civilized Parisians led him back to Tahiti. In this way, there is the well-known legend of Gauguin who took off his civilized clothes and was alone and naked in the great nature. The misfortune of illness and the loss of a daughter in the family made him think of suicide. After being rescued, he painted a masterpiece "Where Do We Come From?" Who are we? Where are we going? "Then he moved to Iva, the capital of the Marquesas Islands, and died on May 8, 1903.

Claude Monet:

(Claude Monet, 1840-1926) was born in Paris in 1840. When he was 5 years old, he moved with his family to Le Havre, a port city in northwest France. Le Havre.

Monet's paintings indeed express his momentary impressions of nature. Unlike Degas who was keen on indoor light, Monet's works were mainly produced outdoors. He is deliberately sensitive to the reflections of air and water, the diffraction of light, the flash of various objects, etc. In 1874, Monet even converted a small boat into a studio to capture the hazy light and color experience directly on the water. His works, whether they are the early "The Bath of La Gruneère" (1869), "Station of Santa Reza" (1877), or the later "Waterloo Bridge" (1903), "Water Lilies" (1905), and even later works such as "Road of Roses in Giverny" (1920), all show his lifelong interest in light and texture. Monet participated in the Impressionist exhibitions from 1874 to 1886, and played a central role as a representative figure in them.

Gustave Courbet:

(Gustave Courbet, 1819--1877) French painter, representative of realist art.

Due to the influence of the revolutionary thinker Proudhon and the poet Baudelaire, Courbet actively participated in the revolutionary movement in French society in 1848. The anti-traditional spirit of the Wooden Candle Painting Exhibition in 1855 won him the support of a large number of radical young painters. In 1872, Courbet participated in the great Paris Commune movement, serving as a Commune member and chairman of the Artists' Federation. He enthusiastically painted flags, badges and various promotional materials for the Commune. After the failure of the Paris Commune, Courbet was arrested and imprisoned. The painting "Courbet in a Beret and Red Tie" he painted in prison showed his revolutionary style of this period. In 1873, Courbet was released from prison on bail by his friends and immediately went into exile in Switzerland. He died in Lausanne, Switzerland on December 31, 1877.

Jean-Francois Millet:

Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) was the most outstanding French realist in the 19th century, famous for his peasant themes. painter. The works he created mainly depict the labor and life of farmers, and have a strong flavor of rural life. He observed nature with fresh eyes and opposed the misconception of some academics at that time that noble paintings must represent noble characters.

His first representative work in Barbizon was "The Sower". Later, he successively created such masterpieces as "The Gleaner" and "Evening Prayer".

Renoir:

(Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919) was a famous French Impressionist painter and sculptor. Initially closely associated with the Impressionist movement. His early works are typical Impressionist works that record real life, full of dazzling brilliance. However, by the mid-1880s, he split from the Impressionist movement and turned to develop his more rigorous and formal painting techniques in portraiture and portraiture, especially portraiture of women.

Renoir insisted on outdoor sketching and creation throughout his life, and left more than 6,000 playful outdoor works full of light and shadow.

The picture is: Monet's Water Lilies