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"It's better to be clumsy than clever, it's better to be ugly than flattering." A sentence by the Qing Dynasty scholar Fu Shan speaks to the supreme state of Chinese calligraphy. Picasso, an art master, once had a saying that meant much the same thing — it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like a child.
So, how these masters drew in their childhood, we will reveal it today.
Egon Schiller
Schiller painted his first love when he was 10 years old.
Her name was Margaret, and she was what Schiller called "beautiful, enchanting animals." In a love poem to the girl, he once wrote: "Looking at you makes my heart hurt." I love you. Sometimes he would say in a jealous tone, "You're not home every Sunday, where have you been?" ”
First love | 10 years old
Margaret is Schiller's neighbor, the daughter of a teacher. However, there is very little information about her, and Schiller only painted this one painting about her.
Later, he successively painted landscape sketches and portraits in this sketchbook, which can be regarded as Schiller's earliest works.
View | 15 years old
Picasso
Picasso grew up with an orthodox academic art education.
At the age of 7, he has already painted college sketches. "Matador", completed at the age of 9, has stood up to scrutiny.
Matador | 9 years old
At the age of 14, when he was admitted to the advanced class of the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona, he could already paint as realistically as Raphael, and was lamented by people as "like a genius who fell from the sky". And as he said, in the later stages of his creation, he spent all his time learning to draw like a child and regaining the freedom left in his childhood.
Country house | 12 years old
Paul Klee
At the age of 22, Klee went to Italy with the sculptor Hera to study Renaissance art, and when he returned home, he stumbled upon some of the paintings of his childhood, including this sketch completed at the age of 4, and he commented to himself: "They are my best works so far." ”
In the subsequent artistic career, the Bauhaus teacher always praised the beauty of children's creation, like his works, innocently looking at all things and calmly completing creations.
Sketch | 4 years old
Yayoi Kusama
At the age of 10, Yayoi Kusama was diagnosed with neurovisual impairment and saw a world full of dots.
Also in this year, Kusama drew a portrait of her mother with a pencil, and the dots in the painting were the "real scenes" she saw. At the time, the child was unaware of how different she was from others, and she naively thought that everyone was like that.
After a while, Kusama's illness not only did not alleviate, but became more and more serious, she said: "When I am alone, I always see phantoms, when I walk through the rice fields at night, there is a lot of light in the sky, and then it falls." When I go to a purple clearing, Violet will talk to me like a human. I was frightened by the sound, and I painted because I wanted to escape these feelings. ”
Untitled | 10 years old
Salvador Dalí
Dalí was very active in his childhood and adolescence, when he had already created quite a few works.
He always loved the Great Plains that surrounded the city of Figueres as a child, and the Catalan coast with olive groves and sharp rocks. And these elements, not only as a background but also as a living being, entered his mature paintings.
Mountains | 6 years old
Fireworks | 8 years old
Georgia O'Keeffe
Eugeve's mature works are often filled with subtle changes in the same tone, forming a rhythmic composition, and at some times, the outline of the object in Eugeve's paintings makes the viewer feel the crispness and softness of the object.
The sketch, completed at the age of 14, already has the unique temperament of O'Keeffe.
Untitled | 14 years old
Andy warhol
As a child, Andy experienced three mental breakdowns, a neurological disorder that occurred during those three years when he was 8-10 years old.
Those summers he spent behind closed doors, lying in bed, listening to the radio, holding dolls, and cutting paper dolls. He always felt unwelcome among his peers, and no one poured out his heart to himself. Fortunately, his mother gave him a lot of love, and from time to time he found color magazines and cartoons, which invisibly affected his future works.
Andy loves to scribble, and whenever he finishes a good painting, his mother will reward him with a chocolate bar and encourage him to color it
Portrait | 10 years old
Albrecht Dürer
The master sketcher Dürer followed his father's practice as a teenager, and at the age of 13 he was able to paint his own portrait realistically, and the sketches painted for his father at the age of 19 fully demonstrated his mature painting skills, even comparable to leonardo da Vinci in the early 20 years.
Self-portrait | 13 岁
Edward Hopper
Hopper's "The Child Watching the Sea", which was completed when he was 9 years old, is the most moving, which may be just a sketch, but it predicts the lonely background of his life's work.
Kids watching the sea | 9 years old
Life, sometimes need to do subtraction, but the last thing that should be subtracted is that innocence.