Appreciate the master's conversation

Romain rolland said: "The great significance of art basically lies in that it can show people's true feelings, the mystery of inner life and the passionate world."

Every classic painting in the history of art is the product of generate inspiration and passion, which awakens our hearts and takes us to distant places that our bodies cannot reach.

The higher one's artistic accomplishment, the deeper one's feeling of beauty and understanding of life will be, while the master of art often has 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 artists. I hope you can understand them.

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Da Vinci: Seeking knowledge for the sake of seeking knowledge.

leonardo di ser piero da vinci

1452— 15 19

Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian Renaissance painter, scientist and inventor, is a unique generalist in human history. He is knowledgeable and versatile, and has made remarkable achievements in painting, music, architecture, mathematics, geometry, anatomy, biology, zoology, botany, astronomy, meteorology, geology, geography, physics, optics, mechanics, civil engineering and other fields.

Leonardo da vinci's paintings are two of the most famous: Mona Lisa with less than three A4 sheets and The Last Supper with a height of 4m and a width of 9m.

Leonardo da Vinci's eccentric personality can be summarized as: willful perfectionism. He didn't submit the manuscript, and he took the painting Mona Lisa with him all his life, constantly revising and perfecting it, and drew a few strokes when he remembered it until his death. According to the analysis of modern technology, there are more than 20 layers of pigments in this painting. Both "color perspective" and "halo painting" were invented in the process of modifying the Mona Lisa. Leonardo da Vinci's exploration and constant innovation in subject matter and techniques have promoted western art to take a big step forward.

Da Vinci's revelation is: explore for the sake of exploration and seek knowledge for the sake of seeking knowledge. He didn't do it for reasons such as survival. He measured every part of the human body, calculated their proportional relationship, and studied the woodpecker's tongue ... all out of curiosity, pure curiosity.

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Al Brecht Diu Lei: Pay attention to yourself.

Al Brecht Diu Lei

147 1— 1528

Diu Lei was a famous German oil painter, printmaker, sculptor and art theorist in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He was famous in Europe for his high-level woodcut prints in his twenties and was generally regarded as one of the most outstanding artists in the Northern Renaissance. Diu Lei created nearly 10 self-portraits in his whole life, covering various techniques such as sketching, sketching, printmaking and oil painting, which clearly outlined his life. Therefore, he is called "the father of selfies".

Diu Lei's self-portrait is world-famous, not only because of his handsome appearance and superb painting skills. You know, since the Middle Ages, in western Christian art, portraits can only depict gods, while people are considered ugly and humble. At that time, self-portrait was regarded as blasphemy to art. However, Diu Lei believes that an artist is a natural person with a mission and cannot be overwhelmed by secular public opinion. /kloc-at the age of 0/3, Diu Lei painted the first self-portrait of his life, which is also the first self-portrait in the history of western art.

Diu Lei used his self-portrait to announce to the world who he was. During the Renaissance, this is a powerful proof of his concern for self-worth. Paying attention to the individual and being full of subversive courage is the inspiration left by Diu Lei, the pioneer of the Renaissance.

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Michelangelo Buonarroti: Make the impossible possible.

Michelangelo? Michelangelo

1475— 1564

Michelangelo was a great painter, sculptor, architect and poet in the Italian Renaissance, the representative of the highest peak of sculpture art in the Renaissance, and he was also called "the three outstanding figures after the Renaissance" with Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci. He pursued perfection and insisted on his own artistic ideas, which influenced artists for three centuries. His masterpieces include David and Genesis.

Michelangelo, who was born at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci, was under great pressure. Even if he tries his best, he wants to compete with Leonardo da Vinci. When he was painting the Sistine Chapel, he stood alone on the guillotine with his neck held high. It took him four years to leave this epic masterpiece with an area of about 500 square meters and more than 300 words. He told us with actions that we pursue art not only by talent, but also by overcoming the hardships brought by loneliness and hard work. As he said, "If I knew my efforts to master the skills, I wouldn't feel so amazing."

Michelangelo is a powerful proof of the spirit of humanism in the Renaissance, and his story also tells us how to practice seemingly impossible ideas in a limited life.

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Raffaello Santi: Leaping Growth

Raffaello Santi

1483— 1520

Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci are also called "the three masters of the Renaissance". Raphael created more than 300 wonderful works in his short life of 37 years, especially his paintings with the theme of the Virgin Mary, which endowed Maria with maternal brilliance and feminine beauty beyond divinity and pushed classicism to a new height.

After the research of later generations, Raphael used the "black box" technology in painting. Black box is an optical instrument, similar to the current projector, which can project an image onto a specified plane and greatly improve the efficiency of painting. This also gives us a revelation. Sometimes we don't have to stutter, but learn to stand on the shoulders of giants, which is why Raphael was so prolific in his short life.

We don't deny the talents and efforts of the masters, but what really makes them become masters is the correct choices they made intentionally or unintentionally, and the power of the laws hidden behind the choices, which amplified their efforts and enabled them to achieve leap-forward growth.

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Jean Francois Millet: Return to the Ordinary.

Jean-Francois Xiaomi

18 14— 1875

Jean Francois Millet, one of the founders of French barbizon School, is famous for his "peasant theme". He is one of the most popular painters in China, and his rural genre paintings occupy an irreplaceable position in French painting.

Miller's works, like a mirror, truly reflect the French countryside from 1940s to 1960s, eulogize the peasants, and depict the fate and sadness of the working class, which not only depicts their simplicity and love for labor, but also shows their weakness of conservatism, piety and obedience.

At that time, France had just experienced the industrial revolution, and the limelight of industry completely overshadowed agriculture. But at this time, Miller leaned down to pay attention to the peasants abandoned by the times and seriously described ordinary people and ordinary life. In Miller's paintings, there are the most primitive people's feelings about the earth, nature and life. Only by returning to the ordinary can we understand the true meaning of life.

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Claude monet: Dare to subvert.

Claude Monet

1840— 1926

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

Monet's most prominent label is "subversion". Monet subverted traditional painting techniques, themes and even painters' painting habits, and created a new painting form.

Monet invented a painting method called "color segmentation". Pigments that should have been mixed together were painted directly on the canvas without mixing. When we look at his paintings from a distance, those color blocks will be mixed together because of the "visual mixture" of our eyes, which is seamless and very beautiful.

Monet, who was fascinated by nature, also created a new painting form-continuous cropping. He will paint continuously around a theme and show different faces of the same scene day and night all year round. A haystack, he tirelessly painted more than 30 paintings, and his masterpiece "Water Lily" has nearly 200 paintings in one * * *. With his love for nature and innovative pursuit of art, Monet turned a new page in the history of western art.

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Pierre Auguste Renoir: Beauty is eternal.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

184 1— 19 19

Renoir, a famous impressionist painter, is best at figure painting. His characters are sweet and carefree, with bright faces and delicate hands. In his works, human sufferings are rarely seen, and most of them are full of warmth and smiles. He hopes to bring people pleasure and satisfaction through his own creation.

But Renoir developed rheumatism at the age of 47. For the next 30 years, he suffered from rheumatic bone pain every day. At the age of 69, he was even paralyzed. Later, his stiff and deformed fingers could not even hold the brush. He had to ask his family to put the brush between his fingers and draw by turning his wrist. But he was not defeated by illness, but continued to pursue beauty. He said: "The pain is fleeting, but the beauty lasts forever." 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, light will shine into our hearts.

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Henri Rousseau: Beyond the Rules

Henri Rousseau

1844— 19 10

Henri Rousseau, a French post-impressionist painter, began to teach himself painting at the age of 40. His paintings are naive and primitive, and the famous Picasso and Matisse are his loyal followers.

Rousseau's paintings look rough. Without formal training, he is not good at dealing with the limbs of characters, and even distorts their proportions. However, some critics said: "Rousseau, a self-taught man, 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 triviality of life, while others are unwilling to be mediocre and struggle forward in hesitation. Rousseau opened a dream world for us to escape from monotonous reality in his paintings, which is the charm of artistic creation.

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Paul gauguin: Look up at the moon.

Paul Gauguin

1848— 1903

Gauguin, a French post-impressionist painter and sculptor, is also known as the three masters of post-impressionism with Van Gogh and Cezanne. Gauguin's paintings are unpretentious, highly generalized, concise and both in form and spirit, rich in sense of form, order, rhythm and strong in decorative and formal beauty. His use of color inspired comprehensiveness and paved the way for the development of primitivism.

Gauguin later went to Tahiti, far away from the city, where he finished some of the most important works in his life. In Tahiti, Gauguin found what he had been pursuing-a kind of vitality that was not bound by rules and civilization. His paintings include colorful tropical jungles and tropical island aborigines. His paintings seem to be divorced from the history of western art and involve us in another time and space.

When civilization keeps advancing, perhaps only by returning to the primitive can we recognize ourselves and find the motivation to move on. Mao Mu wrote Gauguin's story into a novel worth reading again and again-The Moon and Sixpence. When everyone is looking at sixpence on the ground, someone must look up at the moon first.

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Vincent. Van Gogh: Gorgeous Burning

Vincent van Gogh

1853— 1890

The paintings of Van Gogh, a famous post-impressionist painter in the Netherlands, are powerful and appealing, colorful and unrestrained, with wild and exaggerated shapes, rough and heavy brushstrokes and straightforward and simple expressions, as if they were freely obtained under the control of passion. His works deeply influenced expressionism and fauvism painting in the 20th century.

Van Gogh was poor and sick for many times in his life, but through his paintings, we can see his full and warm heart, with the purest emotions and endless eager expectations and longings. Van Gogh said: "Perfect works are born from the artist's soul. I would rather die of passion than live in mediocrity. " The world loves Van Gogh because he explained his endless love for life with his short life.

Schopenhauer once said: "The pain of life is inevitable, but it is a positive factor in life. People who have experienced pain can glow with greater vitality. " Suffering is not entirely a sad bad thing. All the sufferings ignited the burning flame in Van Gogh's artistic life.

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