Talk about the 16th-century French painter "Fontainebleau" under the female theme oil painting "Hunter Deanna",
This is a painting with a landscape as the background and the human body as the main body, although the whole picture looks like there are not many scenes, but its subject matter is very rich.
As a lover of oil painting, we have many ways to appreciate an oil painting, and "appreciation" is not just about looking at what the whole picture is painted.
More importantly, it is necessary to analyze the relationship between the characters and scenes in the picture, so as to derive the meaning that the painter wants to express, so that looking at a painting is very interesting and will not be monotonous.
Let's first analyze from the title of this painting , "Hunter Diana", "Diana" is a woman's name, and the word "hunter" indicates the identity of this woman.
Since this Diana was a hunter, there must be a hound by her side, after all, anyone who went out hunting would bring a hunting dog.
So where is this Diana going hunting? That must be the wilderness, only the mountains in the wilderness have prey,
Therefore, interpreting the name of the painting can get a lot of information. As for how this Diana looks, in what time period,
What kind of hound she brought with her, what she would encounter when hunting in the wilderness, and what would happen, we had to analyze it specifically through the picture.
Let's briefly understand the background part of the painting now: we can see two large trees with lush branches, which take up almost two-thirds of the space of the entire painting.
In fact, the trees have occupied all the space above the picture, and in the lower left corner of the picture you can see the sky and hills, in which the painter depicts the trunk in a brown tone,
The leaves are depicted in green and black tones, and the painter depicts these leaves with very thick and rough brushstrokes,
Such leaves make people look very real, and can also feel some dust falling on the leaves, because almost every leaf is a drooping form;
The leaves on the far right of the painting are light green tones, and the leaves on the left are black or dark green, so why doesn't the painter depict the leaves of these two or three trees as the same hue?
In fact, the purpose of the painter is to use different color contrasts to reflect the spatial effect of the picture.
If it is the same hue, such a picture of trees will appear more flat and not three-dimensional; then why is the sky not blue and the clouds not white?
Because the space occupied by the sky and clouds in the picture is very small, the painter simply makes the tone of the sky similar to the hue of the trees next to it.
This seems more coordinated, so the painter does not use blue, white to depict the sky, but uses green that is close to the color of the trees.
However, we can still see a little white tone under the sky, above the hill, and these white tones were made by the painter to distinguish the position of the hill and the sky for the viewer.
Now we can assume what the effect would have been if the painting had not had these two lush trees as a background?
If there are really no two lush trees, then the main character is not full enough,
More importantly, the background appears to be very hollow and empty, which is easy to produce visual fatigue, and the overall picture effect is very defective.
It's like we stand in a place to take a picture, behind which is a bare stone, there is no scenery to set off the main body, this is the biggest flaw failure,
Therefore, the painter must depict these two lush trees in the background, thus also playing a role in setting off the main figure. And because of these two trees,
It also makes the shadow under the feet of the character appear more realistic, and the natural light shines on the character through the trees, so the shadow appears.
We look at the length of the shadow under the woman's feet, and we can know that this time is around seven or eight o'clock in the morning.
This is exactly when the woman of the painting goes hunting in the wild, this woman is tall, naked, and is walking down the hill gracefully, where can we see that the woman is going down the hill instead of uphill?
The red steps under her feet are high and low, the lower right corner of the back is relatively high, the lower left corner of the picture is lower, and the woman is walking in the left direction, so she is walking down the hill.
Since the woman is walking down the hill, does it mean that she has returned from hunting? But she didn't have prey in her hands. I personally think so, the area where women are located,
Whether it is uphill or downhill, this area is in the mountains, she is looking for prey, so it can't be because the woman is going downhill, it means that she is on her way home.
In fact, through the bow and arrow in the woman's hand, the bow in the left hand, and the arrow in the right hand, we can see that she is looking for prey.
If a woman is on her way home after hunting, the arrow in her right hand should be placed in the barrel behind her back, not in her hand.
When the woman is downhill, she turns her head to look in the direction of the viewer, but she does not face the viewer, but looks down, as if thinking about something?
Whether the woman is thinking about anything is very important, the reason why the painter depicts the woman's posture like this is to avoid making the whole painting produce an erotic atmosphere.
The meaning is easy to understand, if this plump looks at the eyes and the viewer, then the painting will produce an erotic atmosphere, and it will become a pornographic painting.
Not to mention that the identity of this is a hunter, and the implication of hunter looking for prey is naturally understood by everyone.
The hound next to the woman is rushing forward with vigor and seems to have found the prey, but the painter did not depict the appearance of the prey, so that the viewer can imagine, which also hints at the mysterious identity of the woman.
In fact, the in the painting is Diana, the mistress of Henry II at that time, and the painter satirizes the relationship between Henry II and his mistress,
Hence the name of the painting "Diana the Hunter", in other words, Henry II was Diana's "prey",
Of course, it can also be understood that Diana was the prey of Henry II. However, from the title of the painting, Diana is a hunter, and all men are her "prey",
Therefore, the moral of the whole painting is to expose the dirty chaos of the right color. It is worth noting that the yellow metal on the black belt on the shoulders of the is a symbol of the woman's access to money,
After all, she was henry II's court red man, and also a mistress, living a rich life without worry;
The pink shawl on the woman's right shoulder is a symbol of passion, and the energetic hound next to it, contrasting with each other, pun intended.
It is the Fontainebleau school of oil painting "Hunter Diana" elaborated in this article, of course, this painting has many details, without analysis one by one, friends who like to appreciate oil painting can use their imagination to understand. In order to enhance the aesthetic experience of reading, some other oil paintings have been added to this article.
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