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Appreciate the famous classic female oil paintings

Appreciate the famous classic female oil paintings: Mona Lisa, Unknown Girl, Portrait of Helena Furman, Pearl Girl and Sleeping Venus.

1, Mona Lisa

Leonardo da vinci's Mona Lisa successfully depicts the image of bourgeois women in a city during the rising period of capitalism. According to records, Mona Lisa was originally the wife of a fur dealer in Florence, when she was only 24 years old.

The Mona Lisa in the picture shows a faint smile, and her brow reveals her inner joy. With superb painting skills, the painter showed the smiling faces of women, especially the slightly upturned corners of the mouth and the stretched smiling muscles, which made Mona Lisa's smile appear calm, peaceful and meaningful. This is a beautiful expression of reserved women of the middle class in ancient Italy, which many art historians call "mysterious smile".

2. Unknown girl

1883 I.N. Kramskoyi Russian Trechakov art collection. This is a portrait of a person with aesthetic value, and the painter shows the spiritual temperament of the object with exquisite skills. The unknown girl in the painting is arrogant and self-respecting. She was dressed in the luxurious clothes of Russian upper class and sat in a luxurious open carriage with the famous Alexander Theatre in St. Petersburg as the background.

Who is the "unknown girl" is still a mystery. The painter has created a new style of expression in portrait painting, that is, depicting portraits with thematic plots, showing a resolute, decisive, thoughtful and youthful image of Russian intellectual women.

3. Portrait of Helena Furman

Portrait oil painting "The Portrait of Helena Furman" is depicted with beautiful and vivid color strokes, and the lines are very smooth. This is the characteristic of the female images in Rubens' works, which is the upper social environment in which he lives and caters to the aesthetic requirements of the upper nobility. So the characters in his works, especially women, are almost all ladies.

4. Pearl girl

Koro 1868- 1870 The Louvre in Paris is 70×55 cm. This painting is a beautiful portrait masterpiece, which depicts a young woman wearing a "wreath" made of leaves. A leaf cast a shadow on her forehead, and the audience mistook the shadow for a pearl. Although this is an illusion, it contains a judgment on the authenticity of this painting.

5.sleeping Venus

Sleeping Venus is an oil painting created by Italian Renaissance artist giorgione in 15 10. This painting shows Venus, the goddess of love in Greek mythology, sleeping naked. Giorgione didn't finish the painting, but Titian finished the scenery and the sky. It is now in the Dresden Master Art Museum in Germany.