Father plays multiple roles, teaching us how to be human and protecting our family. His strong arms carry the weight of the whole family. Father does not like to express, but only does things silently. For Father's Day, let's appreciate the great images drawn by the artist's father

Dürer's father

In the collection of the Fitz Gallery, Florence, Italy. This oil painting is Dürer's portrait of his jeweler's father. The author uses a side view of the painting. Although it is drawn from the side, it has to be admired that the face depicted from the side can be so delicate and real, the hands are also very delicate, the colors are coordinated, and the blue blocks are worn. The green background of the clothes, the brown of the clothes and the shadow of the skin and hat, including the color of the skin and the description of the eyelashes, hair, etc., are all portrayed in the smallest detail without affecting the final effect. In this work, Dürer used delicate realism techniques, showing that he was influenced by the Flemish painting style during his painting studies. In fact, in this painting he created in the later period of his painting practice, he showed the neat brushwork he learned from his father, as well as the outline brushwork he learned from Mr. Landers School artist Han Sprydenwolf paints a style of human activity.

Rembrandt's father

Rembrandt was born in Leiden, the Netherlands, the son of a miller. Rembrandt was the youngest and brightest of a family of nine children. His father put him in college and wanted him to become a lawyer. However, due to his natural fondness for painting, Rembrandt dropped out of college after only six months of study, and then entered a studio to study painting. Following his success, Rembrandt's first works were portraits of his father and family.

Cezanne's father

Cézanne's father, Louis-Oxter Cézanne, started his business in the leather hat business and later opened the Cézanne-Cabasso Bank. He has financial skills, but he knows nothing about art, so he firmly opposes the development of his son who has loved painting since he was a child. According to his father's wish, Cézanne was admitted to the Faculty of Law at the University of Aix. According to him, "this was not what he wanted, but because of his father's compulsion." His inner yearning was to study painting in Paris. Because he can see through his son's mind, the father no longer insists on his son. Cezanne painted many portraits of his father, among which "Portrait of Father Reading a Newspaper" in 1866 is a representative work of his changing style. The father in the painting looks down at the newspaper with a serene expression.

James Ensor's father

James Ensor was born in Ostend, Belgium. His childhood was not a happy one, his father was an exiled British artist, artistic and emotionally sensitive, his mother was a shrewd and capable Flemish, and his parents did not have a harmonious relationship in childhood. In 1887, his father died of alcohol poisoning. Ensor's family background may have contributed to his melancholy character from a young age, so much so that his paintings are filled with intensely coloured, eerie vibes. The father in this painting is looking down at the book with a slightly solemn expression.

Dali's father

Dalí was born in the small town of Figueres, Spain, where he spent his childhood. His father, a lawyer and notary of social status, had a wealthy family and once established his first art studio for Dali in the small seaside fishing village of Cadaques. Later, Dalí fell in love with Gala, a married woman ten years older than him, and joined the group of surrealist painters, both of which led to conflicts between him and his father.

Frida Kahlo's father

Frida Kahlo is the most popular modern female painter of all time in Mexico. Her father was a German immigrant of Hungarian Jewish descent and a well-known photographer in Mexico City. Her father's occupation also influenced Kahlo's aesthetics to a certain extent. Later, her paintings always showed a texture that penetrated the soul.

Latour's father

"Saint Joseph the Carpenter" is one of the masterpieces of Latour's artistic maturity and can be regarded as a masterpiece of painting in the 17th century. This oil painting depicts a carpenter working at night by candlelight in his son's hand. From the title of the painting, the carpenter is the adoptive father of Jesus. Joseph's eye contact with the young Jesus is central to the painting. His gentle eyes show his infinite love for the child; the wrinkles on his forehead convey his worries for his son's future destiny; the wood being processed is a metaphor for the cross during Jesus' crucifixion. Although this is a religious work, the scene depicted in the painting is intended to evoke a universal feeling, and the simplicity of the work and its portrayal of the characters deeply impress the viewer.

Rembrandt's father

The parable of the prodigal son is a passage in the Bible. The seventeenth-century Dutch painter Rembrandt used this passage as a blueprint to create an oil painting titled The Return of the Prodigal Son. The picture shows the young son of the old man, asking for family property, going far away, wandering around, finding his way back, and finally returning home. The old man in the painting is already dying, and his weak eyesight can no longer help him better recognize the scene in front of him. He stretches out his hands to accept his lost and found son. Those trembling hands caress the son's back and the ragged prodigal son. Leaving the mark of wandering, the scene of father and son meeting moved the audience.

Repin's father

The painter created the image of a revolutionary intellectual persecuted under the tsarist despotism who was also a father, son and husband at the same time. After a long period of exile and hard labor, the revolutionary suddenly returned, and when he entered the room, his elderly mother stood up from the sofa in surprise, and his wife and two children looked at him. The older boy looked up with joy, his mouth half-opened in surprise, as if about to shout; the younger boy looked timidly from the book he was reading to the "stranger". Such a special scene has its profound historical background, and the surging family affection in the painting is also very emotional.

Van Gogh's father

This work is Van Gogh copied from Miller's work of the same name. The scene in the painting is set on a farmland in the countryside, with the farmer's house on the back. A mother on the right is helping her little daughter learn to walk. The peasant father of the baby girl on the left crouches on the ground and spreads his hands to encourage her to move forward. Starting from scratch with the support of our parents, toddlerhood is the common memory of life, and the firm embrace of our father is also the driving force for us to move forward. The painting is brightly coloured, with blue, yellow and green, and is full of life. The whole painting makes people feel the real life of peasants, ordinary and dynamic family.

Luo Zhongli's father

In the early 1980s, Luo Zhongli shocked the Chinese painting world with a piece of "Father", which deeply touched the hearts of countless Chinese people with a monumental and magnificent composition, depicting the typical image of a Chinese peasant deeply. The painter has created a picture of a sincere, simple and honest father. Even if there are no gorgeous and dazzling colors, nor a grand scene of agitation, it is still rigorous and simple, delicate but not greasy, plump and moist. The color of the carol-like picture is very solemn and vivid. The simple peasant in "Father" is the painter's silent gratitude to the most ordinary peasant father.

Li Zijian's father

In 1986, Li Zijian painted this ordinary realistic oil painting portrait study for his 80-year-old father. Thirty years before, a political storm suddenly came, his father was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and the painter also grew up in poverty. This painting uses delicate brushwork and plain language to portray a vivid image of a Chinese old man who is stoic, upright, simple and kind.

Liu Xiaodong's father

Fragile Rope shows the tranquil scene of a fishing village wharf. The figures in the painting are placed in the foreground and deliberately drawn closer, highlighting the ordinary father and son as "civilian heroes". The simple and honest middle-aged fisherman is playing with a pipe in his hands, wearing a blue overalls and a pair of PLA rubber shoes. This is the standard clothing of ordinary working people since the new China in the past. His nearly adult son has thick arms and strong thighs. A slender red rope hanging from the top of the picture suggests the continuation between father and son, like blood vessels distributed throughout the body, implying a natural and unstoppable bloodline inheritance.

Chen Yifei's father

"Father and Son" uses a close-up lens to portray a pair of ordinary Tibetan father and son. The whole painting is only the half body of the father and son, and the composition is particularly full. The large brushstrokes and large color blocks full of passion highlight the simplicity, wildness, roughness, primitiveness, etherealness and mystery of Tibetans. The painter's brushwork is like a sculpture, and the facial complexion and expressions of the Tibetan father and son are portrayed thoroughly.

Zhang Xiaogang's father

In Bloodline: Big Family—Father and Son, the father is depicted as a young man with a youthful hairstyle, and his tall, slender appearance adds seriousness to the portrait. The baby boy, on the other hand, appears innocent and can see that he has inherited his father's physical characteristics. The baby boy's eyes revealed unexpected maturity and intelligence, his gestures and gaze were frank and natural, and he seemed more confident than his father. The painter carefully uses the canvas to connect the blood, and the figures are connected in a line. What is more unique is that the boy's hand seems to gently pull the string, as if he knows that he has been born into a complex and cumbersome world.

Wang Shengli's father

Chinese oil painting is almost the same as Chinese new poetry. On New Year's Eve in 1980, Luo Zhongli, a famous oil painter, was standing outside the roadside toilet and found the expression of a manure-picking old farmer who didn't know what was going on. He was deeply shocked by his numbness and old demeanor. Father" and won the National Art Exhibition Award that year, which caused great repercussions in the cultural and art circles and became famous all over the world. In the blink of an eye, 16 years have passed, and in 1996, another famous oil painter Wang Shengli painted another old farmer. The painter seems to have sensed a simple rich and noble temperament from the bright and peaceful expression of the old farmer. And the falling sound of the Hukou Waterfall behind the old farmer seemed to echo the lingering Xintianyou, so he named the painting "The Ballad of the Yellow River". Time has changed, and the two fathers, one is numb and old, and the other is beautiful and bright, which is admirable. It seems that history has turned a corner under Wang Shengli's pen. That is to say, another "father" lives in a peaceful and quiet, comfortable and tranquil state of life deep in his heart - the traditional life philosophy of "being simple".

For an artist, the father often plays multiple roles, perhaps as his artistic enlightenment, perhaps as a sponsor, or even as an opponent. But it is undeniable that in their rich and complex artistic career, the father is a very critical and unique presence. From the "father" image created by the artist, perhaps we can discover important factors that affect his artistic style.

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