This is the self-portrait of the British painter John William Goldward at the end of the neoclassical era, and gazing into his deeply depressed eyes, you will feel that this painter is different, or that his career will not be so smooth!
Although Gao Ward came from a middle-class family, his father's stubbornness, or Jackie Chan, wanted to arrange for his son to study architectural design, hoping that he would become an architectural designer with a higher social status, rather than a painter with a "vain name". In the end, the father and son broke off the father-son relationship because of this incident, and he embarked on the road of painting alone!
Gao Ward is particularly good at portraying the charm of fruitful women, women wrapped in that layer of tulle, full of body, full of youthful vitality, it seems that they will always be young!
These girls dressed in different costumes, either leaning or lying flat, or staring down at a place, or admiring a bouquet of flowers, or bowing their heads and braiding their braids, no matter what they do, they are so beautiful!
The delicate texture of the picture is also impeccable, this long braid and hands can be described as lifelike, and the painter has portrayed the girl's expression at this moment! At this moment, while she is braiding her long hair, she is thinking about her sweetheart, and the girl who is immersed in love is the most beautiful and moving!
However, the painter's creative style was not taken seriously during his lifetime, and he chose to commit suicide at the age of 61, writing in his suicide note that for him and Picasso "the world is not big enough" for him and Picasso.
Maybe it's depressed, maybe it's family or other reasons, who knows, we can only admire his works, and then silently miss him...