Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography and portraiture - As an art lover, which painter's oil painting "Woman" do you think is the most perfect? Why?

As an art lover, which painter's oil painting "Woman" do you think is the most perfect? Why?

Taking women as the main body or theme is the most common theme in oil painting, among which there are countless perfection. For example, Madame Guevara on horseback by John Courier, The Birth of Venus by bouguereau, Athena by Gelve, Sleeping Girl by Mashnikov, etc. They all created the most beautiful and famous female images with beautiful pictures, but the Fountain of Angels impressed me the most.

Twenty years ago, when I first looked through the collection of western classic oil paintings in the university library and saw Fountain of Anger for the first time, I was immediately "shocked". To tell the truth, I've never seen such beautiful and elegant oil paintings in my life, and I didn't know that women's bodies were so beautiful, and I didn't expect painters to create such beautiful female images with ingenuity!

Spring is an oil painting of a woman's standing posture. In the picture, a young girl stands in front of a dark green niche in a vertical configuration, holding a ceramic bottle filled with spring water in both hands, with the bottle mouth facing down, showing the unique curvaceous beauty of young women. The girl's expression is very simple, facing forward, and there is a pure and innocent charm in her bright eyes. The painter painted the girl's clean and energetic skin with a dull velvet brush stroke. The clear spring water pouring out of the pottery bottle adds flowing rhythm to the calm picture, and also highlights the beautiful and bright face of the girl like the moon, reflecting the clear and pure heart of the girl like the spring water.

How beautiful!

This is a pure beauty, a natural beauty, an elegant beauty and a solemn beauty. This kind of beauty is divorced from vulgar taste, without carving, spotless, giving people visual enjoyment or even pure beauty.

Fountain is the representative work of Angel, a French neoclassical oil painter in the19th century. It took 26 years for the painter to complete it from conception to creation. With superb painting skills and expressive techniques, this painting has successfully created a beautiful, pure, quiet and elegant girl's perfect image, which has become a classic handed down from generation to generation and has been listed as a model of art and human oil painting teaching in many countries.