Generally speaking, all excellent works have the characteristics of elegant, healthy and progressive style beauty, which can bring spiritual enlightenment, pleasant emotion and beautiful enjoyment to the audience.
The style of a work of art depends on the artist's artistic attainments and aesthetic thoughts, as well as the conception, topic selection and expression form of the work. Without a good idea and theme, it is difficult to reflect the beauty of style. Similarly, without a good form of expression, even the best creativity and a good carrier, it is difficult to reflect the beauty of the style of the work. The beauty of style is often the artistic effect presented by the perfect unity of form and content of artistic works.
In terms of oil painting art, in its 600-year development history, a large number of classic and excellent works have been produced. These works not only have beautiful or novel or unique forms of expression, but also have profound or vivid or rich ideological connotations, so they have healthy and positive characteristics of style beauty. So, how can we better appreciate the beauty of oil painting art? The author tries to take some classic oil paintings as examples to discuss this problem with you.
First, from the choice of the theme of oil paintings, we can evaluate their style beauty.
The beauty and ugliness of a work of art style first depends on its choice of theme. It can be said that theme selection is the key to the beauty of artistic works. Father, the masterpiece of Luo Zhongli, a famous contemporary painter in China, is a successful example.
Father was written in the early 1980s. In this work, the painter takes China's typical peasant father image as the prototype, and shows the broad spirit of hundreds of millions of peasants in China as the theme. Through detailed description, it presents a high-style aesthetic feeling, giving people a strong visual impact and a perceptual voice. It can be said that this painting won the first place in material selection and established the style of this painting.
Take/kloc-The Lady Guevara on horseback by the British painter John Curnell in the 8th century as an example. If only from the picture, it shows the scene of a young woman, Mrs. Kwadai, riding a horse naked through the city streets, which seems to be of low style. However, if we relate this painting to tell a beautiful story that has been passed down for thousands of years, and know that this is a noble, kind and caring act of Mrs. Quaddai to bet the governor's husband not to do so in order to reduce taxes for the people in the city, we will feel that this painting is not only beautiful in picture, but also beautiful in theme and style.
Second, appreciate the beauty of its style from the conception and creativity of oil painting.
Conception and creativity are the central ideas and theme connotations expressed by the author in his works. Take the world famous paintings's guernica as an example. Guernica is an oil painting on canvas created by Picasso in 1930s. It is a classic of three-dimensional abstract art. Just looking at the picture, it is like a set of geometric figures spliced together, which many people may not understand. However, with such novel, unique, abstract and rich artistic expressions, the painter profoundly exposed the atrocities of the fascist bombing of guernica towns by Spanish Franco at that time, which brought profound disasters to the local people. This is guernica's conception and creativity, and it also determines the beautiful style of this painting.
There is also The Custodian of the Relief Fund by the British painter Lucian Freud. The image of the heroine in the painting is greedy, lazy, fat and ugly, which is considered as the ugliest role in the history of western oil painting. But it is through this ugly external expression that the painter reveals a profound and thought-provoking theme, that is, the ugliness of some people's souls and human nature. Therefore, although this painting is ugly from the picture, its conception and creativity are beautiful and its style is high, which is one of the important reasons why this painting can become the world famous paintings.
Thirdly, the style beauty of oil paintings is evaluated from their forms of expression.
Oil painting is the art of modeling and color. One of the important reasons why people like oil painting is that it has beautiful modeling and rich colors. Many classic oil paintings show their beautiful styles through shapes and colors.
For example, Raphael's Son of the Virgin, Botticelli's Spring, giorgione's Sleeping Venus, Rubens' Water and Soil, Rembrandt's Anatomy Class of Dr. DuPont, James's Music Class, Delacroix's Guiding People's Freedom, bouguereau's Spring Coming, Monet's Water Lily, Van Gogh.
Fourthly, evaluate the beauty of style from the color tone of oil paintings.
Take Renoir's The Woman in the Bath as an example. "Bathing girl" is a theme that western artists are willing to express. Many oil painting masters, such as Vega, Angel, Jerome, Courbet, bouguereau, Degas, Cezanne and Gervaid, have all created oil paintings that show the theme of "bathing girls". Renoir's The Woman in the Bath is different. In this series of oil paintings, Renoir successfully created a beautiful image of a group of plump young women. They are elegant, feminine, energetic and handsome in the sunshine. The success of Renoir's works is largely due to his use and grasp of colors and tones in the paintings. Through colorful and bright colors, the beautiful image of plump women and the fresh and elegant style are set off.
Degas's Dress Up depicts a girl who combs her hair after bathing. There is no background and gorgeous colors, only gray, white and black, showing a quiet, simple, true and simple atmosphere and aesthetic style.
Fifth, appreciate the beauty of style from the action expressions of characters in oil paintings.
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa enjoys the reputation of being the first famous painting in the West. The biggest highlight of this painting is its interesting center, which is the Mona Lisa's smile in the painting. This smile contains the gentleness and charm of women, the elegance and nobility of the heroine in the painting, and some speculative mysteries, which not only show the charm and temperament of the characters, but also reflect the aesthetic and elegant style.
The Fountain of Angels is regarded as the pinnacle of western human body oil painting. As a positive posture, human body oil painting will be mediocre or even vulgar if it is not created properly. After a long period of thinking and polishing, the painter Angel handled the expressions, postures and movements of the characters properly, especially the clear eyes and single expressions of the characters revealed the charm of innocence, which produced the effect of purifying the readers' hearts. This painting has successfully created a pure, elegant, solemn and beautiful girl image, giving people artistic enjoyment.