Brief introduction of Gong E's painter

Diego de Silva Velá zquez (1599— 1660) was a Spanish painter in the baroque period of17th century.

Velazquez,/kloc-a great realistic painter in the 7th century, was born in Seville, a famous Spanish historical and cultural city. His father is a local inferior aristocrat. Like many masters of painting, Diego likes painting since he was a child and shows great creative talent.

1628, 29-year-old velazquez set foot on the land of art capital and began his two-year study abroad career.

He studied the outstanding artistic achievements of Renaissance masters, especially the use of color by Venetian painting school.

After returning home, people found his portraits more elegant and accurate. What is commendable is that he has an attraction hidden in paper. His highly realistic skills and clever grasp of colors make his portraits full of magical charm.

Philip IV was proud of his hidden master, Dan Qing, regarded his portrait as an important diplomatic gift, and even lent his painter to European royal dignitaries to show his political tolerance.

Velazquez is not only the chief painter of this palace, but also the artistic director of this palace.

Representative works include: Sailor, Old Lady with Fried Eggs, Pope Innocent X, Vulcan Forge, and Pope Innocent X.

Most famous paintings are difficult to surprise the audience's visual experience. On the one hand, because of their familiarity, these two famous paintings have been held too high and even boring.

However, velazquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X seems to be an exception.

Although it has been published for more than 300 years, it can still strongly shock the sensory perception of contemporary audiences.

Judging from the form of this painting, it is no different from other portraits in Europe at that time. The posture and composition of the characters conform to the tradition of portrait painting, which is in sharp contrast with the unusual realism of this painting.

Reminiscent of velazquez's contemporary audience's comments on his works: "All other works are paintings, only this one is true.

This painting was painted by velazquez during his second visit to Italy.

In Rome, velazquez, as the court painter of Spanish King Philip IV, attended the 1650 celebration hosted by Pope Innocent X.

At that time, he also met with contemporary painters, such as Pu Sang and sculptor Benigni.

It was there, at the request of Innocent X, that velazquez painted this famous portrait.

It is said that when the Pope himself saw the painting for the first time, he was almost surprised and uneasy and said, "It's so alike!"

This truth obviously comes from the depth of the painter's observation of human nature.

Velazquez and Goya, a Spanish court painter in the18th century, have similar life experiences and artistic reputations, and both have painted many portraits of the royal family and nobles.

But Goya made no secret of his contempt for court nobles. He emphatically revealed the sharp contrast between the stately and gorgeous appearance of the nobles and their dull minds and inner emptiness. His brush is as sharp as a blade.

Velazquez treats all people equally. He can "paint like a man", whether he is a pimp or a nobleman.

The portrait of Pope Innocent X is a typical example. In this painting, he just regards the object as a "person" and draws his identity and character.

From such works, we can't see the likes and dislikes of the author, because he doesn't "intervene" and he "observes".

Because of this, in that era when photography was not invented, velazquez's Portrait of the Pope was almost an "objective" realistic painting.

There is no exaggeration in the picture, and everything faithfully shows what the painter saw.

When this painting was created, the painter was just in his fifties and was in the heyday of his creation.

If there is still a trace of Caravaggio's style in Caravaggio's early works, then velazquez has created his own art kingdom.

His grasp of anatomy, modeling and color is vividly reflected in this painting, so that it is difficult for people to realize that it is just a "painting" before such a work.

All people's attention is attracted by the depth and breadth of the painter's description of human nature, which is one of the miracles in the history of painting.

No wonder the Pope was surprised. In any case, he could not imagine that the Spanish painter could truly show the inner world of a powerful person famous for his intrigue and cunning under the disguise.

The power of velazquez is here.

Venus at her mirror.

Venus at her mirror is a painter's work in his later years, and his smooth modeling and bright colors are the best summary of his artistic achievements in his life.

The god of beauty (to be exact, a beautiful Spanish girl) reveals a simple and natural beauty that no painter can write.

165 1 In the summer of, velazquez returned to Spain from Italy, and the king promoted him as the royal artistic director, which plunged him into complicated artistic affairs, and the painter was very depressed because he could not draw. At the same time, the court aristocrats opposed the king's honor of sealing him on the grounds of being a commoner, which made the master deeply distressed.

Venus at her mirror is an extremely beautiful and outstanding nude painting created in this state of mind. This is the single most successful female painting in velazquez.

According to textual research, the painter made this arrow for Louis Derry, a Spanish aristocrat at that time.

This painting depicts Venus lying in front of the mirror, little love god holding the mirror for her to observe, and Venus facing away from the audience. The implication of composition is obviously influenced by Spanish religious asceticism.

Venus is a goddess that painters love to describe, and painters often express their social and aesthetic ideals through the image of the goddess.

Venus created by different nationalities and painters is different.

Venus painted by Venetian painters is colorful, elegant and solemn; The Venus created by Rubens is coquettish, solid and powerful; Velazquez's Venus is petite, dignified, noble and incomparable in beauty, which shows the Spanish aesthetic concept.

The painter created the beauty of women's body with rhythmic smooth lines. If you look around Venus's body, her curves are undulating like a beautiful melody, and her upper body is sonorous and powerful, while her lower body is gentle and soothing.

Masters have always been good at depicting complex skin changes with transparent and concise colors and nuanced strokes. The delicate body is full of vitality and youth.

This is the painter's praise for the beauty of human beings.

Dionysus

"Dionysus" Dionysus is also the god of harvest. So his "Dionysus" depicts a group of Spanish farmers who are in high spirits during a labor break.

The painter vividly described the folk life in Spain with mythical themes.

Sebastian the dwarf

If you get paid, you have to work for others.

The court nobles often asked him to draw some * * * and dwarfs to make fun of them. Velazquez described these ugly people with deep sympathy, which made people sad and unhappy.

Sebastian, a dwarf, has a body like a child, but the painter does not take this defect as the center. He sits on the ground, his feet are horizontally extended, his figure is short, his arms are placed on his abdomen, and the center of the painting is the dwarf's head. He is a complete adult with dignity, wisdom and kindness.

But he is a mocked dwarf after all, so his big eyes contain infinite sadness and pain.

An unfortunate person with good self-esteem tries to make fun of your people with his own physical defects in order to survive. This is/kloc-Spain in the 0/7th century.

The painter's love and hate jumped out.

woman textile worker

This is another masterpiece of velazquez after Gong E.

Originally named "ballas and Alesin", this painting is based on the story of the competition between ballas, the goddess of skills, and Alesin, a girl who is good at knitting. Ballas was very angry. She turned Alesin into a spider. However, this painting depicting the theme of myth has swept away the old habit of painting with gods as the theme in the 7th century, showing the divine world with secular life, and at the same time making ordinary secular life attractive. This is a fresh and creative job.

This is mainly manifested in the tapestry depicted in the picture with mythical figures, ballas, the goddess of skills, wearing a helmet, and Alesin, a young girl, standing opposite her. The close-up of the picture depicts the two worlds of myth and reality, but the painter pays more attention to the real world, especially the image of the white textile woman on the right is very beautiful.

From this, we can see velazquez's artistic creation tendency.

The painter's high achievement in dealing with lightness and color is also quite outstanding in this work.

Aesop

Even painting Aesop, a portrait of a Greek civilian, always has a sense of majesty.

Gong e

The most interesting thing is Gong E, who describes his life as a court painter. On the left of this painting, velazquez himself is painting the king and his wife with a brush. In the central mirror, you can see that the king and queen are models. Mother Teresa came here with maids, clowns and dogs.

This painting depicts that moment.

Brayda's surrender

A masterpiece is a mural entitled "Brayda's Surrender".

Brayda, a city in the Netherlands, a Protestant country, wants to be independent from Spain, an ancient religious country, and hold an uprising. So I was surrounded by Spanish troops for a long time and finally had to surrender.

Velazquez described the scene of surrender to show off Spanish glory.

In the center of the painting, the defeated general of Brayda handed over the key, and the victorious general of the Spanish army put his hand on his shoulder to comfort him.

This painting combines majesty and sadness, which is both realistic and decorative.

This work is regarded as a masterpiece comparable to Titian and Tintoretto.

Bacchus Baku

Except for Dionysus, the Dionysus, whose image in Bacchus is slightly beautified, the rest are ordinary Spanish farmers.

In Innocent Conception and Innocent Conception, the only place that can make people believe that this simple village woman is pregnant with Maria, the son of God, may only be a clever combination of clouds and water.

Diego Velazquez is a baroque painter in Spain and a master painter with aristocratic spirit in Spain.

He is famous for genre painting and portrait painting. The main reason for winning the reputation as a master is not his versatility in painting subjects, but his revolutionary contribution to the history of European painting.

This contribution is manifested in his understanding of the characteristics of painting as a visual art, in that he regards the truth in painting only as the effect of light and color we see with our eyes, and can distinguish the most subtle light level from the change of color; He perfected the "atmospheric perspective method"; He also found that our vision can only focus on one thing at a certain moment and keep a vague background, and organize the picture space according to this law.

Gong E is undoubtedly his most famous masterpiece.

Later, many painters admired this work, and even many painters, including Picasso, tried to deconstruct this work in their own way to explore the "truth" hidden in the picture.

In fact, Diego Velazquez never concealed the essence of what he saw, and showed it unreservedly in many of his works. When he gave the portrait of Pope Innocent X to the Pope, the Pope said in surprise and anxiety, "He is so alike.

Therefore, velazquez is known as "the painter of truth".

Although he is a court painter, he has always been obsessed with the pursuit of artistic freedom.

Because of this, Diego Velazquez was sought after by many artists in later generations, which made velazquez become the three representatives of the "golden age" of Spanish art together with Rivera and Suban.