Seven famous paintings in the Western world

Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night

The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh

1889

This "Starry Moon Night" created by Van Gogh in a mental hospital in his later period, the swirling nebula, the whirlpool of the golden full moon, the cypress tree with rising flames, and the turbulent blue-green torrents are engulfed and swallowed, and the changing starry sky depicted in exaggerated techniques seems to see the passage of time.

Van Gogh used exaggerated techniques to vividly depict the starry sky full of movement and change. The whole picture is swallowed up by a turbulent, turbulent blue-green torrent, and the swirling, restless, curling nebula makes the night sky extremely active, and the scene that is detached from reality reflects Van Gogh's restless emotions and crazy hallucinatory world.

Henry Lotrick's Ball at the Moulin Rouge

Dance at the Moulin Rouge

Henri Lautrec

1890

The prodigious work "The Ball of the Moulin Rouge", which shows the indulgence and lasciviousness of French high society, depicts the "paradise" scene of the Moulin Rouge with irony and exaggerated brushstrokes. Crazy movements and numb looks, indulging in indulgence and wasted time.

Under the warm and noisy atmosphere, the picture is vivid and jumping, the brush strokes are free and flexible, the paper is drunk and golden, and the decadent and unrestrained atmosphere is full of movement and debauchery, implying a mockery of the times and society: decadent, cold, arrogant and tired.

Edward Munch's Scream

The Scream

Edvard Munch

1893

The Expressionist painter Edward Munch's "Scream", the expression of pain against the backdrop of the blood-red residual sun, became the representative work of Expressionism.

Through a series of red and yellow intertwined wavy lines, Munch squeezes distorted facial expressions, presenting a terrifying picture of screaming and screaming, and the indifferent figure reinforces the extreme madness on the edge of inner collapse.

As Munch put it, "Only a madman can draw it." ”

Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy

The sleeping gypsy

Henri Rousseau

1897

The representative work of the French post-impressionist painter Rousseau, "Sleeping Gypsies", depicts gypsies sleeping on the ground and a male lion in the empty and cold desert. The night is hazy, the moonlight is like water, full of poetic mood.

Rousseau observes the world and feels life with innocent eyes, and the mysterious plot and scenes add a strong exotic atmosphere to the surrealist painting style.

Pissarro", "Avenue Montmartre"

The Boulevard Montmartre

on a Winter Morning

Camille Pissarro

1897

Pissarro's "Avenue Montmartre" provides a high-vantage point of view into the busy streetscape of Montmartre in the early morning. The receding boulevards, pedestrians and buildings on both sides, constitute a simple but strong sense of composition and perspective.

Sketch-like brushstrokes, the technique of the pointillist school, and the misty winter effect make the paintings create a strong sense of hustle and bustle on top of the pearly soft texture.

This is a panorama of the Avenue montmartre, which foreshadows the scene that the futuristic painters of the 20th century were keen to depict – the rapid movement of the modern city.

Kandinsky's Composition VIII

Composition 8

Wassily Kandinsky

1902

Kandinsky, the theoretical and practical founder of modern abstract art, believed that "the harmony of color and form, in the strict sense, must be based on the principle of touching the human soul." ”

The painter uses the geometric language of circles, semicircles, triangles, rectangles and straight lines to express the inner world in a delicate and subtle way. Although there seems to be no necessary logical relationship between the various forms, they interact with each other with the help of color, so that the formal meaning of the composition has a certain connotation and evokes the materialized spiritual entity of aesthetic pleasure.

Picasso's The Maiden of Avignon

The Young Ladies of Avignon

Pablo Picasso

1907

Picasso's The Maiden of Avignon is one of the most famous and prestigious images of the 20th century.

The five looked seductively beyond the canvas. The variety of viewpoints, seductive gestures, distorted faces, and rough shapes make the painting full of uneasy power.

The radical geometric style marked the birth of Cubism. The painting contains elements that were absorbed by the modernist movement, whose ideas constantly challenged the art world and the public.

Klimt's "Kiss"

The Kiss

Gustav Klimt

1908

Expressionist artist Klimt's Kiss depicts a man and woman wrapped in golden light, kneeling in the garden and kissing strongly, the woman intoxicated and at the same time showing a shy and passive look, full of sexual contradictions and a fantastic sense of oppression.

Covered in gold leaf and ornate ornamentation, sexual pleasure and the shadow of death adjacent to it converge into a decadent and aesthetically beautiful strong desire for love on the edge of despair, becoming a highly decorative metaphor for love.

Henri Matisse's Dance

The dance

Henri Matisse

1909

The dance patterns in the paintings, which are circled, have been cited since classical times. In The Dance, the representative of Fauvism, Matisse, the dancers depicted in flat colors form a circular pattern and fill the canvas with regular movement.

There are only three colors in the painting, the blue sky and the green earth represent the harmony of the blue sky and the green earth; it can also be seen as the quiet harmony of the blue night sky and the green grassland. The brick-red human body shows a primitive and healthy beauty of the woman, and also forms a balanced harmony in contrast with the blue sky and green space. In any case, in this painting, Matisse puts the color matching simple and clever, with natural brushstrokes, the function of color is played to a simple, coordinated, pleasing step. Of course, this is also the effect of interacting with the harmonious atmosphere of the picture as a whole.

Franz Marque, "Blue Horse"

The Large Blue Horse

Franz Marc

1911

Franz Malck believed that the "animalization" of art could awaken a certain divinity in the hearts of all things. The animals are presented in a heroic, even contemplative form, evoking a sense of grandeur.

"Blue Horse" occupies space with three horses composed of blue, bowing its head and closing its eyes, protruding from the warm and gorgeous background, serene and gentle. Bright and clear colors, undulating curves create a quiet and touching world.

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