Text/Zheng Xin'an
Caravaggio was a realist master painter who depicted people and natural things around him, and his approach to naturalistic painting showed his inner fierceness and uneasiness.
The power of art lies in its ability to express the truth, to make people feel unpretentious, to face the truth, and to resonate. Caravaggio liked to place the characters in a dark cellar, a scene of light projected by a ray of light, revealing a mysterious power.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) was born in the impoverished italian village of Caravaggio in the lombardy province of northern Italy in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At a very young age, his parents died. From the age of 11, he began to make a living.
His artistic career began after the death of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance. Caravaggio was active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily from 1593 to 1610. He had an important influence on the formation of the Baroque school. Caravaggioism is the realism represented by Caravaggio, the works have a strong breath of life, the concept of secularization of religious themes, the bold skepticism and criticism of society, has progressive significance, not only on Italy at that time, but also on European countries, many 17th-century realist painters were influenced by Caravaggioism to varying degrees.
Caravaggio's paintings have the following points:
First, the characteristics of realism are obvious;
Second, have a distinct life;
3. Have strong symbolic factors;
Fourth, the painting method is more realistic.
It is said that Caravaggio lived in poverty, had a violent, arrogant, wild and unruly personality, had difficulty getting along with people, and had a difficult life. Caravaggio went around clashing with people who didn't understand him, often being tried in court for fighting, going to jail, escaping, painting, and keeping him at the bottom of society forever.
In the decades from the late 16th century to the beginning of the 17th century, Rome was building huge churches and magnificent palaces that required a large number of paintings. Counter-Reform churches were searching for orthodox religious art to counter the threat of Protestantism, because the Mannerism that had previously dominated the art world for nearly a century was not enough to take on the task. This, which brought business to Caravaggio, came in handy his near-physically precise observations and vivid and even dramatic chiaroscuro drawings.
Caravaggio's paintings were influenced by Dutch paintings, and he opposed the rigid dogmas of the academic school and the exaggerated glitz of Baroque art; pursued a simple, fresh, and directly oriented way of expression; with simple, intense chiaroscuro, rigorous and sturdy silhouettes, and an unprecedented unpretentious style, which had a profound influence on European painting.
Caravaggio was a genius master of realist painting, although he had only lived to be 37 years old.
There are many misfortunes in life, full of suffering, and living a life like a criminal. Finally penniless, he contracted a fatal cold fever and unfortunately left his beloved painting art forever on June 18, 1610, at the age of 37.
Think about it, most of the oil painting geniuses of the last century painted masterpieces that influenced several eras at a young age, whether it is the technique of the work or the personal style, they can be called the masters of an era. And now, at the age of 37, he is still studying for a Ph.D. in school? Not to mention the achievement of a generation of masters, there is not even a decent work.
It is true that the times have changed, and the masters of art are not so easy to appear.
Although Caravaggio was a genius, he was also poor when he was alive, and he was also famous for his fame and fortune. After his death, not many people remember him. It wasn't until the last decades of the 20th century that he was rediscovered. Art historians believe that Caravaggio influenced almost all artistic styles after the decline of Mannerism, and had a more profound influence on the emerging Baroque art. Some historians have even commented: "Caravaggio's work marked the beginning of modern painting." ”
He's a little rough, a little sincere, a little romantic, and a little weird, and that's caravaggio, the master of realism.
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