Bouguereau.
Walking into the oil painting gallery in bouguereau, people will be immersed in an atmosphere surrounded by beauty. From the birth of Venus to the awakening of the soul, from bathing girls on the beach to hoeing girls, from the high priest to the rhythm of dance, a series of beautiful female oil paintings make people linger and marvel!
Adolf-William-bouguereau (1825- 1905),/kloc-a representative of French academic school in the 9th century, an important neoclassical painter and a master of aesthetic and realistic oil painting.
Bouguereau 1825 was born in a merchant family in La Rochelle, France. When he was in high school, he showed a good talent for painting, especially for oil paintings of classical aesthetics. What he appreciates most is the oil paintings of classical aesthetic masters such as Raphael, giorgione and Titian during the Renaissance. After graduating from high school, bouguereau received training in the famous Picot Studio and Angel Studio. Under the guidance of normal colleges, I copied a lot of classic works, which laid a solid foundation for sketch and realistic painting. After entering the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, bouguereau quickly showed his outstanding painting talent and won the first prize of the Academy Exhibition for many times. Then I went to Rome, Italy for 4 years. During this period, bouguereau systematically polished the original works of many Italian Renaissance painters, understood the true meaning of art, and gradually formed his own unique and aesthetic realistic painting style.
Bouguereau is good at portraying characters, especially keen on portraying female characters. The female characters he painted include the Virgin and Goddess in religious myths and legends, such as Maria, Venus and Athena. , as well as ordinary female teachers, staff and village women. However, both the mythical goddess and the ordinary woman are ideal and perfect female images in Bourgeois' works.
Bouguereau believes that all natural objects in the world have the characteristics of beauty, and the beauty of women is incomparable to any other beauty. Bouguereau said: Female beauty is the motive force of his artistic creation and the source of his artistic inspiration.
It is based on such artistic ideas and concepts that bouguereau always enjoys creating oil paintings with female themes in a "happy mood" and strives to create an ideal and flawless female image. In nearly 1,000 oil paintings and sketches created by bouguereau in his life, more than 80% of them show the theme of women. No matter whether it is a goddess in religious mythology or a secular woman, whether it is an adult or a child, what bouguereau describes is an ideal and beautiful female image.
Before the 1970s, classicism including neoclassicism oil painting was deeply loved by people, especially aesthetic realistic oil painting. Bouguereau's exquisite oil paintings were once very popular, so they are famous in France and even in Europe. However, after 1970s, Impressionist oil painting became popular, and bouguereau oil painting was left out in the cold. However, bouguereau persistently adhered to his own aesthetic art view, and his painting style has not changed at all since then.
The art of beauty will not be forgotten. After several decades, bouguereau's exquisite oil paintings are appreciated and favored by people again. People's evaluation of bouguereau's oil paintings is that "although the female images are somewhat beautified and idealized, they are real and eternal beauty".