Monet
Of course, there are Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso and Van Gogh, but you can't ignore the position of this French painter in China. Perhaps many people don't even know his full name and the background of his time, but this doesn't affect the deep impression left by his Impression of Sunrise and Water Lily in art class.
Claude monet, an impressionist painter in the last century, probably didn't expect to be so angry in a foreign country 90 years after his death.
China people seem to like the word "impression" very much, and the wind of "impression" brought by director Zhang Yimou has also been successfully blown to the exhibition. How popular is the exhibition Impression Monet? The popularity of Japan and South Korea, and then the tour to the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, is enough to glimpse Monet's appeal.
Besides, the fare is not cheap. Of course, this art exhibition sponsored by the automobile company, besides some original works, also has a large projection screen, a VR exhibition hall and a simulated scenic spot.
Monet himself, is the purpose of painting these paintings really to let the audience study the color of each of his strokes like holding a magnifying glass?
This has to talk about the world in which Monet lives. Before the rise of Impressionism, figurative painting was popular in the western world, which was also commonly known as "human eye camera". /kloc-At the beginning of the 6th century, the peaks of Italy were Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. These three people are simply shining stars in the history of art. I believe anyone who doesn't know art history can name one or two famous works.
/kloc-in the 0/7th century, after the independence of the Netherlands, painters began to paint not only for dignitaries, but also for ordinary citizens. Among them, hals, Vermeer and Rembrandt were born, and all three of them reached the level of empathy in the details of light and shadow, although they were poor in their later years.
/kloc-After the 0/8th century, France became the art center of Europe, and the elegant rococo style became popular. Italians don't like to paint landscapes, but French nobles do, so the French began to paint landscapes. I was tired of landscape painting for a long time, so neoclassicism became popular again. David's death of Mara, its muscle lines and tension are terrible and real. On the basis of his master, Angel pushed neoclassicism into the official mainstream of France.
In contrast, the simple landscape paintings pursued by Barbizons and Realists belong to the style of the opposition party.
Monet was born in 1840. His father is only a grocer, but his aunt is an art lover. I went to art school at the age of eleven, and I am a clever student. But in 1857, Monet met the man who changed his fate-Oren Boudin, a painter who painted seascapes and skies in Normandy. He is an unconventional person, with rough brushwork and an emphasis on the "impression" routine, similar to China's freehand brushwork.
Monet followed him, learned how to sketch in the wild, observe the light and describe dynamic things, and formed the habit of completing what you see is what you get on the spot. So Monet began to be no longer satisfied with finishing his paintings according to the rules. He wants to form a field sketch team and go to Paris to study!
1865, Monet became famous for his seascape paintings. A year later, he painted a portrait of Camille, a model at that time, and later became his wife, who was evaluated as a "naturalist painter" by critics. At that time, Monet was only 26.
1872, Monet finally painted his masterpiece Impression of Sunrise, which is his hometown.
His brushwork began to become crazy, and he no longer adhered to details and was vague. He can even see thick lines at close range, subverting the original mainstream aesthetics. People at that time laughed at him and called him "Impressionist". Yes, the original meaning of this word is not beautiful. But Monet didn't care, it was the color he saw with his eyes, as if he had glanced at the scene, closed his eyes, raised his pen to the impression in his mind, and finished painting in a few strokes.
Not only people today can't understand it, but also people at that time can't understand it. They are still immersed in the exquisiteness of neoclassicism, and they can't understand the atmosphere and color of this painting even if they take a step back. Moreover, he also likes to draw cigarettes, such as St. lazare Railway Station and Parliament Building in London.
At 1879, Camille died, and poor Monet couldn't afford more expensive warm colors. He began to wander around and travel in Normandy with his son. 1886, thanks to the painter Luer, Monet's paintings were finally sold in America and he began to settle down.
Monet was too old to run, so he built a Japanese garden in giverny, which was full of water lilies. 19 14 years, his eyes began to age slowly, which was fatal to a painter. So he began to plan a masterpiece, from 19 15 to 1922, and finished the masterpiece "Water Lily". His original intention was "to make people have endless hallucinations in their sleep, like an aquarium full of flowers." He also succeeded in doing it. The sparkling water is just like the real thing, and every stroke is flowing. Even if he can't distinguish colors, he can only draw with the name of the paint tube. He still insisted. From 1897 to 1926, he drew 18 1 water lily.
In his later years, Monet was more inclined to describe a feeling, because his vision became more and more blurred, and he almost painted with a faintly visible "impression". So he doesn't expect you to look carefully, but hopes to convey what he saw through the atmosphere of a painting.
A whole, not any part. Just like water itself is colorless, it is a whole only when everything is put in it. As critic Brownell said, "Monet's art has become nature itself."
Such an artist is emotional, so 14 years should be used to describe Bai Yueguang Camille's life.
Camille was Monet's model. They first met in 1865. That year, Camille was only 18 years old and Monet was 25 years old. They fell in love quickly, but Monet was still poor and had a stiff relationship with his family. Even in Rouville, Monet's parents didn't come to their wedding.
Monet's masterpiece The Woman in the Green Skirt is a portrait of Camille. It took only four days to finish and sold for 800 francs. So Monet soon painted the next painting, the woman in the garden. Unfortunately, the head of the art salon turned him down, while Camille was pregnant. Desperate Monet went home to ask his father for help. After being rejected, he almost didn't throw himself into the river.
Of course, this did not happen. Monet pulled himself together and took his family to Argenteuil, France. Here, Monet traveled with his family to sketch. On a bright afternoon, Camille was born on the lawn.
However, fate did not treat the family well, and Camille soon became seriously ill. After giving birth to his second son, Monet had to save money to buy medicine for his wife and write letters and borrow money everywhere. The letter said, "We don't have any food or calories."
However, in the end, all this was in vain. Camille was getting haggard day by day, and Monet could only paint his wife's last appearance to commemorate her. On his deathbed, Monet left a heart on Camille's inscription, which is the only intentional painting and also symbolizes the artist's lifelong love.
Camille is Monet's eternal Bai Yueguang. Of course, this made his second wife Alice unacceptable, so she burned Camille's photos and souvenirs, but fortunately, she didn't burn Monet's paintings, too.
His second wife also died in 19 1 1 year, followed by his eldest son in 19 14 year. The misfortune of relatives made Monet's eyesight worse and worse. But at this time, he began to become a successful painter. Only this, he was luckier than many famous painters. Even at the end of his life, he was almost blind, and he still didn't give up painting until 1926 died on February 5.
As one of the founders of Impressionism, Monet was born seriously, but he was born "anti-bone" and didn't like the "rigid" perfection in mainstream thought. He pursues nature, color itself, what you see is what you get. In order to keep the beauty of the moment, in order to catch up with the speed of light and shadow, at the expense of brushstrokes and details.
Perhaps, in a sense, Monet's paintings are the "cameras" in his mind. He never wants you to carefully study what colors he used and what he painted, but wants you to have a look at his paintings and then close your eyes, so that you can really feel the vague scenes in his paintings with a touch of real "impression" color.