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Chapter 327 Obsessed with Art!

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The reason for this may be mainly that he did not create his own unique style, nor did he exert any greater influence on others.In his life, he was not interested in anything except intoxicated in his favorite color dream.Zhang Feng also knows little about his thoughts and life, only that he is a humble and very shy person.

Sisley was born in Paris, but his parents were British.After receiving his education in Paris, he went to London to work in a firm.However, he loved literature and painting. In 1862, he returned to Paris and entered Gler's studio, where he met Monet, Renoir and others, and began his career as an impressionist painter.He was greatly influenced by Monet's painting style and used landscape as the main material.He is particularly good at depicting the sky. The sky he painted is vast and far-reaching, with rich and changing colors and full of atmospheric feeling.

Among Sisley's approximately [-] oil paintings, most are landscape paintings.And in his life, his works did not change profoundly, perhaps because he was not that revolutionary, throughout his life, Sisley did not receive due attention and evaluation.Of course, his nature-loving nature and simple emotions are fully expressed in his creations.

Pissarro once said that Sisley was the purest Impressionist painter because he adhered to the original painting concept - to capture the real impression of the moment of natural scenery through the expression of light and color.When he came to Barbizon, he was attracted by the fresh and solemn painting environment of Corot's works under the bright sunshine. While inheriting the style of Barbizon, he also showed the painting method of Impressionism in color and brushwork. .Analyze the characteristics of Sisley's landscape works from the three aspects of composition, brushwork, light and color:
1.Sisley's composition is deeply influenced by Corot, neat and orderly, free and unconstrained in form; the sky often occupies a large space in the picture to show delicate light and shadow changes; the characters in the work have a small space ratio, and the description is concise and general ; The perspective of the scenery is strong, and no exaggerated form is pursued.

2. Brushstrokes are one of the main modeling methods of oil painting and cannot be ignored. Sisley's works are dominated by broken dot-like brushstrokes, which are light and smooth in appearance, thick and steady in structure, and depict the sky and water unrestrainedly and powerfully, making it rich. He has a sense of lightness and fluidity; and he never makes drastic strokes with his brushes, and uses fine realistic techniques to show the bits and pieces of light and shadow he feels. Although there are few objects shown, there are still whispers.

3. The painter uses color to express his feelings, and the audience becomes emotional when seeing the color. This plays an important role in the appeal of the painting. The beautiful French scenery provided Sisley with an extremely rich sense of color. The poet was moved by the scenery, and poems appeared in his mind. When a painter sees a scene, he becomes emotional, and the image presented in his mind should first be the overall color effect.

Nature itself contains countless vivid color pictures. With his long-term training and sharp eyes, Sisley explores the mysteries of natural colors and breaks the traditional concept of "intrinsic colors" through faithfully intuiting nature and hard-working artistic practice. .In order to improve the purity of the color and the brightness of the picture, the painter juxtaposes the unreconciled colors, allowing the viewer's eyes to reconcile the colors within a certain distance, so that the picture produces a rich color effect.Truly reproduce the virtual and real system of the scene in the light and atmosphere, Sisley makes the outer contour line hidden in the atmosphere, the effect of the line on the picture is reduced, and the shape and color blocks are highlighted; the painter is not limited to the tracing of strict outline details , but focuses on quickly capturing the changing objects in the scene, so that the picture forms a unique and beautiful form.

Orsay liked Sisley's works very much. Although they were all landscapes, they were of pure beauty.Zhang Feng thought that this painter must be living a life he likes and painting works he likes.

Renoir was a French painter originally associated with the Impressionist movement.His early works are typical Impressionist works recording real life, full of dazzling brilliance.By the mid-18s, however, he split off from the Impressionist movement and turned to his more rigorous and formal painting techniques in portraiture.

Of all the Impressionists, Renoir was perhaps the most popular, as he painted beautiful children, flowers, beautiful landscapes, and especially lovely women.These will immediately attract people.Renoir expressed directly on the canvas the pleasing feeling he got from them.He once said: "Why can't art be beautiful? There are enough ugly things in the world." He is also an admirer of female images. He said, "Only when I feel that I can touch the people in the painting, I That’s when the portrait of the human body is done.”

Renoir belongs to the younger one in the Impressionist painting group, one year younger than Monet.Most of the artist's lifetime works depict young women, especially their nude images, in bright, warm tones.With a special traditional technique, he affectionately depicts the soft and elastic skin and plump body of young women.Although he also painted a lot of outdoor landscapes and innocent images of children, nudes and images of women occupied the mainstream of his works throughout his life.His body oil paintings are different from the hypocrisy and artificiality pursued by the painters of the previous school.Renoir's female bodies are full of joy and youthful vitality, all of them are like Eves who have never tasted the forbidden fruit in the Paradise of Eden. They are leisurely and charming.

Attached is his life experience:

1840s - Renoir was born in Rimont, a small town in Haute-Vienne, France, and later moved to Paris with his family.

1850s - Started painting because he learned to paint porcelain in a porcelain factory.

1860s - formally studied painting in Paris, met quite a few painter friends, including Monet.

In 1864, he officially entered the Salon exhibition with paintings.During this period, Renoir's sweet painting style generally appeared, and he also focused on the improvement of the painting method of light and shadow on the water surface.

1870s - Participated in the unsuccessful painting exhibition of the Salon, and started the description and promotion of Impressionism.During the Franco-Prussian War, he was arrested by the government as a spy.During this period, Renoir was not like Camille Pissarro, Gauguin and other painters who fled to other places, but stayed in Paris and painted a lot of street life scenes as records. He used large-scale canvases for these paintings, classic works The Ball at the Pancake Mill (Bal du Moulin de la Galette or Dance at "Madame Henrio" Le Moulin de la Galette) was painted in 1876.This painting is 1.30 meters high and 1.70 meters wide, and it is now in the Musée d'Orsay, France.

From the 1880s to 1881, Renoir painted another classic work: Luncheon of the Boating Party.But after this painting, he gradually gave up focusing on creating the presentation of light and shadow, and tended towards more plain descriptions.During this period, he also traveled to Spain, Italy and other countries, got married and had children.

1890s - At this time, Renoir was already a successful painter. He was enjoying the harmonious atmosphere of his family. He continued to paint and painted many charming family sketches.

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