Brief Description of Painting Box

6, said: box
Period: 1855
Creator: William Powell Frith UK
Specification: 34.9cm × 45cm
Materials: fabric paint
Keep possession at: Preston Harris Art Museum
This is a rich portrait of the plot situation, a lady sitting among the boxes, hand-held binoculars watched the performance, look to focus. Painter with academic and rigorous modeling techniques, depicts a girl in the box. Painting girl simply childish, and the Ministry of arms depicts vivid, clothes, texture, texture have been very accurate, dark background to bring out the girl's posture.

Corot's Landscapes Classical Scenery Combined with a Strict Structure

Corot's landscapes classical scenery combined with a strict structure and personal visual approach in the handling of light and atmosphere by the British painter was inspired, concerned about "tone" and the subtle color contrast with the shades different blocks of color under natural light and vivid picture of the landscape. He kind of new ways to capture the air of the later impressionist had a considerable influence, the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro Corot called his "mentor." But between him and impressionist there is still considerable difference. Despite the focus on observation of nature Corot, often painting outdoors, but all his works are done in the studio to complete, and outdoor sketching assignments only provided him with a landscape motif, in which he often incorporated into the landscape motif classical mythology or religious themes, and use a narrative approach to treatment of the characters in the painting, which can not but think of the 17th century, Poussin and Lorrain. In fact, in essence, deeply admired Corot classical landscape painting, but he brought the classical style of the individual nature of the poetic and sincere.

Degas's Painting Skill of Excellence

Some say it works at first glance a bit like photography, say this is because the artist's pen is always able to light and perfect color combination of the two, a painter, when asked after a long and thoughtful observation after the study crystallization. Degas has always said he is an independent man, he once said: "You use the natural light, I use the artificial light." It is this color and abstract forms of organization, only to Degas in all the times he lived in the Impressionist painters occupy an important position.


Degas in this work to the audience the feeling many people have a direct impression of painting, but in fact, he is precisely through repeated and careful observations, with their memories dictation or recording made by the camera. Because, depicting the dynamics of dance for him, the first impression is very crucial, very important, when the characters are shaped by the dynamic, you can not have the slightest sense of artificial, must be a natural and vivid state. So this piece of character, whether in dance or in the rest, have highlighted the character's elegant and sexy. Even the image of a character is not identical, they are different attitude, which fully demonstrated excellent painting skill of the artist.

Natural Form of Artistic Style - De Kooning and "Woman"

It can be said, the woman on the screen this is not a trace of beauty grimace in pain at all, or even a hideous face, giving a feeling of fear. Wild brush strokes and colorful like a colorful whirlwind of color, giving a messy scene - everything revolves around the super-powerful woman. From the technique point of view, this dynamic woman full of strength and build the image formed by the pigment, it is de Kooning masterpiece, the famous "Woman" series in one. De Kooning painting shows the stages in the non-abstract art exploration of women's knowledge.


De Kooning is the American abstract expressionist school of painting in New York's main members, he stressed the spontaneous art of painting in the painting, natural, rough, bold strokes, and warm, free, to form a rough color strict relationship between the composition, we see from the picture, the artist in the creation of controllability is weakened, but he intends to control the screen, albeit in a more free expression, but painting techniques were demonstrated in control head. All positive factors are that he fully mobilized, he will own all of the energy injected into the canvas without reservation. We can clearly see in the painting, de Kooning and develop freely on the screen has reached the extreme level, the painting symbolizes the artist's understanding of women domineering and feelings. It is said that de Kooning had this feeling restless all day, until he will feel like the screen shown up. Although the painting brush free, people feel there is a one go in effect, but in fact he spent a full 18 months of hard labor to complete. Especially for the performance of on-screen image of women, de Kooning painted back and forth hundreds of times. Although the chaos appears to bear the image of the screen, gave the audience a strong visual impact. In addition, he "discovered", "Marilyn Monroe •" and other representative works, the same stirring.