Appreciation of Brayda's Surrender Works

Brayda's Surrender (1634- 1635) is a historical painting created by the painter based on the only military victory in Philip IV's life. Described the incident that the Spanish invaders captured Brayda (a small town in the Netherlands) on July 25th, 625/kloc-0. In the Dutch war of independence against Spanish rule in the17th century, the battle of Brayda was the only small "victory" of Spain. It has been 10 years since then, and the Netherlands has recovered this fortress. King Philip IV wanted to find a painter to paint in order to brag about his martial arts.

It is not honorable for velazquez to accept this task, because it is a monument to the invading army. Although the painter must be ordered, on the other hand, there is a personal relationship, that is, the commander of this movement is Spinola, who is the painter's friend and client. However, this painting does not preach how the Spanish army is "brave and tenacious", and the atmosphere of a peaceful truce is filled between the opposing two armies. Obviously, the painter concealed the practical significance of the contradiction between the two sides of the war. Spinola, the head of the invading army, and the commander of the Dutch army met happily on the battlefield, and there was a peaceful atmosphere of "turning the enemy into jade". Whether this theme is the will of the king or not, it constitutes the hypocrisy of history after all. Velazquez wants to weaken the essence of this aggression in his painting, and painting it as a truce (unlike surrender) can only confuse the meaning of the Dutch revolutionary war, which is the historical limitation of velazquez in this painting. On the other hand, it also shows that the truth of art is by no means the product of pure skill. The painter's painting skills are superb. Here, he played the color expression skills from the Venetian school, and his composition was very layered. The encounter between the two armies is not monotonous. The two sides only use one side of the pike to stand upright, and the other side of the gun is messy, as a sign of victory or defeat, while the characters are as ruthless as group photography.

This painting was once called "Gun Forest", which rendered a harmonious Venetian tone on the characters (the painter worshipped Titian very much and once said: You should find goodness and beauty in Venice, and Titian was the leader of the painters who created this kind of goodness and beauty). Velazquez's ideological weakness caused by his class status is obvious in this painting. The painter has only established his own realistic feats on a large number of genre paintings and portraits.