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Romain Rolland said: "The great significance of art is basically that it can show the true feelings of people, the mysteries of inner life and the world of passion."
Every classic painting in the history of art is the product of the inspiration and passion of the masters of art. They awaken our hearts and take us to distances beyond the reach of our bodies.
The higher a person's artistic accomplishment, the more profound the feeling and understanding of beauty and life, and the masters of art often have a more sensitive mind and a sharper insight into the true meaning of life.
Here, I will share with you the paintings and life stories of 10 masters of art, I hope you can comprehend.

01

Leonardo da Vinci

1452—1519

To know for the sake of knowing

Italian Renaissance painter, scientist, and inventor Leonardo da Vinci is a unique all-rounder in human history. He is profoundly thoughtful and versatile, and has been widely used in painting, music, architecture, mathematics, geometry, anatomy, biology, zoology, botany, astronomy, meteorology, geology, geography, physics, optics, mechanics, civil engineering There have been significant achievements in other fields.
Leonardo da Vinci's paintings are two of the most famous: "Mona Lisa", which is less than 3 A4 sheets, and "The Last Supper", which is 4 meters high and 9 meters wide.

Leonardo da Vinci's eccentric character can be summed up as: wayward perfectionism. He procrastinated and did not submit the manuscript. He carried the "Mona Lisa" painting with him all his life, constantly revised and improved it, and made a few strokes when he remembered it, until he died. According to modern technical analysis, there are more than 20 layers of pigments in this painting, and the "color perspective method" and "smudge method" were both invented in the process of revising the "Mona Lisa". Leonardo da Vinci's exploration and continuous innovation in subject matter and technique have propelled Western art a big step forward.

The revelation that Leonardo da Vinci gave us is: to explore for the sake of exploration, to seek knowledge for the sake of knowing. He didn't do it for survival reasons, he measured every part of the human body, calculated their proportions, he studied the tongue of woodpeckers... all of this was just out of curiosity, pure curiosity.

02

Albrecht Durer

1471—1528

Focus on self

Dürer, a famous oil painter, printmaker, sculptor and art theorist in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Germany, his high-level woodcut prints in his twenties have made him famous in Europe, and is generally considered to be the center of the Northern Renaissance. One of the most outstanding artists. Durer created nearly 10 self-portraits throughout his life, covering various techniques of sketches, drawings, prints and oil paintings, clearly outlining his life, and he is also called "the father of self-portraits".

The reason why Dürer's self-portrait is famous in the world is not only because of his handsome appearance and superb painting skills. You must know that since the Middle Ages, in Western Christian art, portraits can only depict gods, and people are considered ugly and humble. , at a time when self-portraits were considered profane to art. Dürer, on the other hand, believed that the artist is the chosen person with a mission, and must not be overwhelmed by secular public opinion. At the age of 13, Dürer painted the first self-portrait in his life, which is also the first self-portrait in the history of Western art.

Dürer proclaimed to the world who he was with his self-portraits, a powerful demonstration of concern for self-worth during the Renaissance. Focusing on the individual, full of subversive courage, is the inspiration left by Dürer, a pioneer of the Renaissance.

03

Michelangelo Buonarroti

1475—1564

Make the impossible possible

Michelangelo was a great painter, sculptor, architect and poet in the Italian Renaissance, the representative of the highest peak of the Renaissance sculpture art, and was called "the three masters of the post-Renaissance" together with Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci. He pursues perfection, insists on his own artistic ideas, and has influenced artists for three centuries. His representative works include "David" and "Genesis".
Michelangelo, who was born in the same era as Leonardo da Vinci, was under enormous pressure. Even if he tried his best, he wanted to compete with Leonardo da Vinci. When he created the Sistine ceiling painting, he was alone on the scaffolding, with his neck raised and his head raised.It took a full 4 years to leave this epic masterpiece with an area of about 500 square meters and more than 300 characters.Class masterpiece. He tells us through action that the pursuit of art is not only about talent, but also overcoming the hardships caused by loneliness and hard work is equally important. As he put it: "It wouldn't feel so amazing to know the hard work I put into mastering my craft."
Michelangelo is a powerful proof of the humanistic spirit of the Renaissance, and his story also tells us how to practice seemingly impossible ideas in a limited life.

04

Raffaello Santi

1483—1520

Leapfrog growth

Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci are collectively known as the "Three Masters of the Renaissance". In his only 37 years of life, Raphael created more than 300 wonderful works, especially His paintings of the Virgin, in addition to the divinity, endowed Mary with the brilliance of motherhood and the tender beauty of femininity, pushing classicism to a new level.

After the research of later generations, Raphael used the "camera" technique when he painted. The camera obscura is an optical instrument, similar to the current projector, which can put the image on the designated plane, which can greatly improve the quality of painting. efficiency. This also gives us a revelation that sometimes we don’t have to die, we must learn to stand on the shoulders of giants, which is why Raphael is so productive in his short life.
We do not deny the talents and efforts of the masters, but what really makes them masters is the right choices they make intentionally or unintentionally, as well as the mighty power of the laws hidden behind the choices, which magnifies their efforts and enables them to achieve Growth by leaps and bounds.

05

Jean-Francois Millet

1814—1875

Return to ordinary

Jean-François Miller, one of the founders of the French Barbizon School, famous for his "peasant themes", he is one of the most popular painters among Chinese audiences. The art world occupies an irreplaceable position.
Miller's works are like a mirror that truly reflects the face of the French countryside from the 1840s to the 1860s, sings praises to the peasants, and depicts the fate and sorrow of the working class. It not only depicts their simple, labor-loving nature, but also expresses Their conservative, pious, and submissive weaknesses.
At that time, France had just gone through the industrial revolution, and the limelight of industry completely overshadowed agriculture. But at this time, Miller turned the other way, leaning down to pay attention to the farmers who were abandoned by the times, and earnestly depicting ordinary people and ordinary life. In Miller's paintings, there are the most primitive people's feelings for the earth, nature, and life. Only by returning to the ordinary can we realize the true meaning of life.

06

Claude Monet

1840—1926

Dare tosubvert

The famous French painter Monet is one of the representatives and founders of Impressionism, especially good at the expression of light and shadow. The word "impression" comes from his masterpiece "Impression Sunrise".

Monet's most prominent label is "subversion". Monet subverts traditional painting techniques, subverts the subject matter of painting, and even subverts the painter's painting habits, creating a new form of painting.
Monet invented a painting method called the "color segmentation method", where the pigments that should have been mixed together were directly painted on the canvas without being mixed. If you look at his paintings from a distance, those color blocks will be caused by our The "visual blend" of the eyes is blended together and blended together, very beautiful.
Fascinated by nature, Monet also subversively created a new form of painting - continuous painting. He would paint continuously around a theme, showing the different appearances of the same scene throughout the year, day and night. For a haystack, he worked tirelessly to paint more than 30 pictures, and his masterpiece "Water Lilies", a total of nearly 200 pictures. With his love for nature and innovative pursuit of art, Monet turned a new page in the history of Western art.

07

Pierre Auguste Renoir

1841—1919

B eauty is eternal

The famous Impressionist painter Renoir is best at figure painting. The figures in his paintings are sweet and leisurely, with bright faces and delicate hands. He rarely sees human suffering in his works, and most of them are full of warmth and smiles. He hopes to bring joy and satisfaction to people through his creations.

But Renoir suffered from rheumatism at the age of 47. He suffered from rheumatic bone pain every day for the next 30 years. At the age of 69, he was even paralyzed. Later, his stiff and deformed fingers even held a paintbrush. He couldn't stop, and he had to ask his family to stick the paintbrush between his fingers and turn his wrist to paint. But he was not defeated by the disease, but continued his pursuit of beauty. He said: "Pain is fleeting, but beauty is eternal." Only a painter who feels the beauty of the world in his heart can bring joy to the world with his pen.

Since pain is always inevitable, why don't we look in the direction of beauty? As long as there is light in our hearts, the light will shine into our hearts.

08

Henri Rousseau

1844—1910

Beyond the rules

Henri Rousseau, a French post-impressionist painter, began to teach himself to paint at the age of 40. His paintings are naive and original, and the famous Picasso and Matisse are his loyal followers.
Rousseau's paintings look very rough, and he is not good at handling the limbs of the characters without training, and even distorts their proportions, but one critic said: "The self-taught Rousseau was ridiculed for his clumsy composition and perspective. But If he had been trained, modern art as we know it might never have happened."
Some people are trapped in the trivialities of life, and some people are unwilling to be mediocre, struggling to move forward in hesitation. Rousseau opens up a dream world for us to escape from the monotonous reality in his paintings, which is the charm of artistic creation.

09

Paul Gauguin

1848—1903

Looking up at the moon

French Post-Impressionist painter and sculptor Gauguin, together with Van Gogh and Cezanne, is known as the three great masters of Post-Impressionism. Gauguin's paintings show simple and plain flat features. The images are highly generalized, concise and both physical and spiritual. They are full of sense of form, order, rhythm and rhythm. They have strong decorative and formal aesthetics. His use of color inspires It also paved the way for the development of primitivism.

Gauguin later went to Tahiti, far from the city, where he completed some of the most important works of his life. In Tahiti, Gauguin found what he had been looking for - a life force that was not bound by rules and civilization. With colorful tropical jungles and tropical island aboriginals in his paintings, his paintings seem to break away from the history of Western art and involve us in another time and space.
When civilization continues to advance, perhaps only by going back to the original, can we recognize ourselves and find the motivation to move on. Somerset Maugham turned Gauguin's story into a novel worthy of repeated reading - "The Moon and Sixpence". When everyone is looking at the sixpence on the ground, someone has to look up and see the moon first.

10

Vincent van Gogh

1853—1890

Gorgeous burning

The paintings of Vincent van Gogh, a famous Dutch post-impressionist painter, have strong power and appeal. Colorful and unrestrained, the shape is wild and exaggerated, the brushstrokes are rough and heavy, and the expression is straightforward and simple, as if they were freely swayed under the control of passion.His work deeply influenced 20th century Expressionist and Fauvist painting.

In many times of his life, Van Gogh was poor and ill, but through his paintings, what we see is his full and warm heart, the purest flow of emotion, and the endless stream of eager expectations and desires.
Van Gogh said: "The perfect work is born from the soul of the artist. I would rather die in passion than live in mediocrity." The world loves Van Gogh because he used his short life to interpret the true The endless love of life.
Schopenhauer once said: "The pain of life is unavoidable, but it is an affirmative factor in life. People who have experienced pain can radiate stronger vitality." Suffering is not completely a bad thing that makes people sad. For Van Gogh, he ignited the flaming flame in his artistic life.

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