<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > When it comes to body painting, many people will think of Titian and Angle, the body paintings of the two masters of art have left a deep impression on everyone, especially Angle, his "Spring" and "Great Palace Girl", but also spread all over the world. </h1>
"Springs" partial
I have also introduced Ingres and his works of art before, but I have not described his works in detail.
Today, I will focus on Ingres's solo works.
In the 1820s, the frenzy of Romanticism swept through France, where the classical tradition was deep. Hugo, Berlioz, and Delacroix each used their own weapons to drive out neoclassical forces throughout the literary and artistic sphere.
In the world of painting, Davit said goodbye in the mid-twenties. But in the years before that, his artistic brilliance had faded, and his trembling hands could no longer be depicted as neoclassically brilliant works.
Faced with the powerful onslaught of aggressive Romanticism, neoclassical painting looked forward to its new leadership. At this time, Davit's student Jean Auguste-Dominic Angler appeared. In his long life, he resisted the impact of the new trends such as romanticism and the various interesting changes of the times, and with an extremely arrogant and stubborn attitude, he defended the ideal of classical beauty and continued the life of neoclassical painting.
Jean Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Just as tragedy is the highest literary style for believers in classicism, for Ingres, who adheres to classical principles, the idea that history painting, established from the seventeenth century, is the highest style of painting makes sense. Throughout his life, Ingres dreamed of becoming a history painter. To this end, he devoted a lot of energy and effort, but the brilliant masterpieces that pinned his ambitions on him were not very attractive. It is said that when customers pouring in from abroad asked about the portrait painter Ingres, he would be indignant; But in fact, his greatest achievements were precisely portraits and paintings depicting the female human body. Portraiture was also a major source of his finances.
Now, let's take a look at this famous female body painting of Ingres, "The Great Palace Girl". During the Renaissance, the great Venetian painter Titian created a large number of beautiful and moving female body figures, and Ingres's women's body paintings can be seen as the most beautiful female body paintings since Titian. Created in 1814, the Magala is part of Ingres's early works.
"The Great Palace Girl"
On the long horizontal canvas lies a beautiful young and beautiful woman with a long body. The composition processing maintains the rigorous and clear characteristics of classical art. The woman's body is arranged diagonally, and her entire body, from the outline of her back to the long thighs, forms a smooth, rhythmic S-shaped curve, and the slender rounded arms respond to this expressive line, which is extremely moving to show the attractive beauty of the female human body.
She turned her head to the side and stared at the viewer, which could not help but recall Bai Juyi's charming poem "Looking back and smiling at a hundred beautiful students". The head and the body complement each other, enriching the charm of the entire female figure.
Angle arranges a straight line to form a mantle on the right side of the picture, which not only removes the blankness of the background part, but also reflects the smooth and charming curves of the woman's body. In correspondence with the movement of the lines of the woman's body, the painter consciously but very naturally designed a large number of diagonal lines in the opposite direction. The silhouettes and lines of the curtains, the smoking guns, and the feather fans in the hands of the palace women, the leather mattresses and pillows under the body, and the scarves on the heads are consistent and similar, and they form an exquisite rhythm between them and the lines of the woman's body that flows from the upper left direction to the lower right corner, which strengthens the artistic appeal of the work.
Ingres attaches great importance to the elegance and precision of the shape, and he uses the expressiveness of the line to achieve this goal. In the history of Western painting, he belongs to the list of masters who are the best at using lines. Ingres, who was also deeply involved in music and was a very good violinist, led to the French idiom "Ingres's violin", and his talent in this area was bound to have some potential but definite influence on his art. Isn't the incomparably beautiful and smooth contour line in this work like the melodious and pure melody played by the violin?
The bright warm-colored female body is surrounded by cold blue blocks, supplemented by white, yellow, brown and other colors, forming a beautiful and elegant color effect of "The Great Palace Girl". From the fascination with curves and the feeling of being a little cold, it is not difficult to find that in the classical style he also incorporated some elements of the Fontainebleau school and Italian Mannerist painters.
Ingres, who was in the heyday of Romantic art, although he had always been hostile to Delacroix, was invisibly influenced by some of the romantic tastes. The selection of materials for "The Great Palace Girl" proves that its subject matter is not the traditional subject of classical painting that represents the female human body; This woman was not Venus or Diana in Greco-Roman mythology, but a woman in the harem of the Eastern world. We know that the fascination with the exoticism of the East is precisely a major feature of the romantics, and that Ingres repeatedly depicted this oriental palace girl throughout his life.
Ingres has always emphasized the precision of the shape, but he never stereotyped nature, and beauty has always been the ultimate goal of his pursuit. After this work was published, some people accused the figure of being dissected, "his palace girl's back has three more vertebrae", in fact, as long as we taste it, we will understand how important the long and beautiful curve of the palace woman's back plays in emphasizing the beauty of the female human body.
"The Great Palace Lady" creates a feminine figure rich in sensual beauty in a delicate and elegant form, and contains a certain pure and noble style in its fragrant aroma, which is reflected in a series of female body paintings created by Ingres before or after.
Davitt The Oath of the Three Brothers of Horace
Through the "Grand Lady" and "The Oath of the Three Brothers of Horace", one can generally understand the basic face of neoclassical painting and the similarities and differences between the two most outstanding neoclassical painters, Davit and Ingres.