Portrait painting, a kind of figure painting. A picture depicting a character. It can be divided into head portrait, bust, full-length portrait, group portrait and so on. It takes people who exist objectively in real life or history as the object of description, and through creative methods such as having both form and spirit and being imaginative, it focuses on depicting the specific appearance characteristics and inner charm of the characters themselves, and achieves the effect of having both form and spirit. Primo Conti (Primoconti1900-1988) was a famous Italian portrait painter in the 20th century. His painting style is unique and combines the characteristics of many painting schools. His figure painting can be called the weather vane of figure painting, which has a far-reaching influence on painting.

Chinese name: Primo Conti.

Mbth: PrimoConti

Nationality: Italy

Place of birth: Florence

Date of birth: 1900

Occupation: painter

Masterpiece: A Portrait of a Lady

Gender:: Male

Be good at:: Portrait painting

outline

Primo Conti (Primoconti1900-1988) was a famous Italian painter, composer and writer in the 20th century. Born in Florence, Kong Di showed interest and talent in painting from the age of eight. At the age of 1 1, one of his self-portraits received a good response in the circle of art critics. 19 13 his romance of violin and piano music brought him into contact with the futuristic movement for the first time and made him gradually interested in the style of the futuristic movement. His love for this innovative trend in art at that time was almost completely reflected in his paintings, and gradually developed a unique painting style, which combined the characteristics of Art Nouveau, Fauvism, Expressionism and Oufeipai.

artistic career

19 17 Kong Di officially decided to devote himself to futurism after meeting giacomo Barra, the most outstanding figure of Roman futurism, and filippo Thomas Somanetti, the founder of Neapolitan futurism. During the period from 19 17 to 19 19, Kong Di's works had a profound influence on the futuristic movement, and Kong Di's works also showed some metaphysical meanings in style.

The 1920s was a complicated period for Kong Di. He explored various fields such as stylism (also known as stylism or pretentiousness), exoticism, metaphysical painting and great historical and religious painting.

1930 Kong Di married Montakryps and gave birth to two daughters. During this period, he got inspiration from his familiar daily life and created many high-quality works, including Girls and Butterflies and Portrait of a Lady.

From 1935 to 1939, he designed scenery and costumes for MaggioMusicaleFiorentino in Florence.

194 1 year, Kong Di became the head of the painting department of Florence Fine Arts Institute.

1947- 1957 served as the chairman of the fine arts association, and promoted the merger of the fine arts association and the local artists' group in Florence _ Casady Dante.

Between 1948 and 1963, he accepted a profound and mysterious job and joined the Franciscans.

1983 Kong Di published his autobiography The Throat of a Blackbird.

1980, Kong Di established a foundation named after Kong Di in the Italian town of free soul, dedicated to the protection and inheritance of culture and art.

representative works

Portrait of an indoor lady

Portrait of an Indoor Lady is Primo Conti's highest work and one of the classic female portraits collected by matzo paris Art Foundation. There are many bold colors in the picture, and there are also exquisite paintings everywhere. The layout of this beautiful woman in the painting is also ingenious, using the classic golden section principle. It is particularly worth mentioning that the depiction of women's hands can be described as extremely nuanced. Natural strokes and skillful colors depict the hands of the lady in the painting, which is rich in texture. From those delicate hands, we can conclude that this lady was born in a rich family since she was a child. She has no stress in life, is well educated, loves reading, or is proficient in several musical instruments. From the dress collocation and implicit and confident eyes, we can see that she is different from ordinary rich girls and is a woman eager to get new ideas.

the portrait of a lady

Portrait of a lady (1953)

canvas oil painting

The signature and date are in the upper right corner of 70×90cm.

Primo Conti's ladies are elegant and colorful. In his portrait of women, women sit gracefully. The crimson dress looks elegant, the makeup is just right, and the expression on her face looks carefree. Earrings and jewelry complement each other and are full of aristocratic atmosphere. The transition between the background color and the character color is particularly natural, inadvertently revealing the blue corner of the chair, and the whole color style is fresh and clear. The emotional romance of the whole painting shows nostalgic and yearning artistic sentiment.

A blue ribbon/portrait of a girl

A blue ribbon/portrait of a girl

(Project 1953)

Fabric oil painting 70×90cm

After the dramatic destruction of World War I, after years of thinking and research on his own painting theory, and after abandoning the fusion of chaos, fantasy and ambiguity, this is the painting that Kandy finally showed us with the existence of life itself. In this portrait of a girl in the 1950s, Conti created a high-quality snapshot based on still materials.

Portrait of a boy

Portrait of a boy (1953)

Fabric oil painting 70×90cm

The Portrait of a Boy is another famous painting of PrimoConti, which was customized for PrimoConti by the Genoese industrial family Parroty. Now this work is collected by the matzo paris Art Foundation. The color of the whole painting is bright and pure, as if the light had fallen with many tiny crystals from the beginning and then melted into the pigment. Kong Di presents an eternal color to the audience. Blue, red and green are almost always the same. It's like tone and color are the same. This painting represents Kong Di's painting mood in this period, with gradually clear style, simple color and even fresh brushwork. The boy's painting shows Kandy's quiet and far-reaching creative style.

Citizen

Oil painting Citizen

120x81.5cm.

Top right corner of signature (1955)

"Civitate" is a close-up of a woman's meditation, while at the bottom, it depicts a person sitting alone on the edge. The surrounding work scene is blurred under the prominence of people. Kong Di's Works 1955.

the portrait of a lady

Portrait of Lady in Oil Painting 1950

23.75x17.5cm.

Sign "P.Conti- 1950" in the upper left corner.

The Portrait of a Lady is saturated in color and rich in hue, which reflects the leisurely noble temperament of a lady.

Personal realization

During Primo Conti's artistic career, he was appointed as the director of the painting department of Florence Academy of Fine Arts, and served as the chairman of the Fine Arts Association, which contributed to Dante's House. He published his autobiography, The Blackbird's Throat. Free soul Lai, an Italian town, set up a foundation named after Kong Di.

Many of Kong Di's works are kept in the Primo Conti Museum in Kauste Villa (near Florence) in free soul. His outstanding works, such as Portrait of an Indoor Lady, Portrait of a Lady, Portrait of a Boy and Portrait of a Girl, were collected by the Marcelo Paris Art Foundation.

Social assessment

Primo Conti is very talented in controlling color, and he presents the eternity of color to the audience. Blue, red and green are almost always the same, just like hue and hue. Giovanni Constry once commented on the color of Primo Conti's paintings: He has a rare accomplishment in the field of color, just like the melody of shells, which is very beautiful and the best in gray tones.

background introduction

1. Art Nouveau Movement

1880s, 1890 to 19 10 reached its peak. The name Art Nouveau comes from a shop named "LaMaisonArtNouveau" opened by Samuelbin in Paris, where he displayed all the products designed in this style. Art Nouveau movement is the deepening and development of French arts and crafts movement. This new art form has the modeling traces of European medieval art and rococo art in the18th century and the decorative features of handicraft culture. At the same time, it also has the aesthetic characteristics of oriental art, which contains people's nostalgia and yearning for the new century at that time, and is a comprehensive reflection of all complex emotions during the transition from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization.

2. Barbarism

It is a modern painting trend that prevailed in France from 1898 to 1908. Fauvism painters are keen on using bright and heavy colors, and often use pigments directly squeezed out of pigment tubes to create strong picture effects with straightforward and extensive brushwork. It was the first modernist school in Europe in the 20th century. It gets rid of the inherent color characteristics of objects, and realizes the complete release and independence of colors in the picture with simple lines and exaggerated colors. The emergence of Fauvism made Europe get rid of the traditional concept of natural colors for hundreds of years.

3. Expressionism

One of the important schools of modern art. Literary schools popular in Germany, France, Austria, Northern Europe and Russia in the early 20th century.

4. Orpheism

Inspired by cubism, after 19 10 years, the so-called "Orphanism" painting appeared, which was named by the poet GuillaumeApollinaire in 19 12 years. In his view, these painters created pure TINT on canvas, just as orpheus did through pure musical form in mythology. "It is pure art to draw a new structure with elements that have not been borrowed but are completely created by artists in the visual field."

5. Futurism

It is one of the thoughts of modern literature and art. 1909 initiated by marinetti. 19 1 1 zhuan 19 15 is very popular in Italy. It spread to European countries during the First World War. Based on the philosophy of Nietzsche Bergson, this paper holds that the future art should have a "modern sense" and advocates that artists express the so-called "concurrency of mood" when creating. Marinetti, an Italian poet, writer and literary critic, published the article "Founding and Manifesto of Futurism" in le figaro on February 1909, which marked the birth of Futurism.

6. Stylistism

It is also translated as masculine, stylized and pretentious, meaning "style". It opposes the guiding role of reason in painting, emphasizes the artist's inner experience and personal expression, pays attention to the sense of form in artistic creation, and uses oblique lines and curves obviously. Stylistism is usually the opposite of the artistic habits in the heyday of the Renaissance. This is not because painters desperately want to achieve Raphael-style balance and instant sexiness, but because this balance is no longer in line with the atmosphere and trend at that time. Stylistism gradually matured under the development of Raphael's two apprentices, Giuliomano and Andre Del salto, and Andre Del salto's studio also cultivated standard stylist painters Pontomo and Rossophe Orentino. In the heyday of the Renaissance, when the classical realistic description and perspective of the human body reached its peak, some painters began to deliberately distort the structure of the picture, resulting in irrational emotions and artistic space. Greco is also regarded as a stylist by some people, but greco also expresses his unique personal characteristics in his paintings, not only the distorted design of the picture, but also the "acidic" tone in his paintings. The characters he depicts are slender and twisted, irrational perspective painting, suffocating light and crowded composition, which makes viewers feel hazy and irritable. Rome, Florence and mantua are the centers of stylistic development. Venice painting has developed its own unique style in different schools, represented by Titian's painting career.

7. Metaphysical painting

19 10 years ago, the art movement and futurism were the same, but they had completely different tendencies. Different from futurism, futurism praises the scientific and technological achievements and progress of machine civilization society, while metaphysics focuses on expressing the pathological conditions of western society and is skeptical about scientific and technological progress. This painting school, like its name, is deeply influenced by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's idealism, but more influenced by Freud's thought. In fact, they embodied the application of intuition, hallucination and subconscious in psychoanalysis earlier than the later surrealist school. Their works are full of mysterious and strange atmosphere, and most of them depict the stability, eternity and immortality of objects.