There are enough ugly things in the world.
Portrait of Miss Irene Kahn Underwood 1880
Also known as: [Portrait of Miss Condavis], [Little Irene], [Irene], [Little Girl]
Oil painting on canvas, 65×54 cm.
Note in the upper right corner of the work: Renoir 80
Collection: For example, the collection of Swiss Burla Foundation (Zurich).
A young girl with long flaxen hair: little Irene
1880, Renoir was invited to draw a profile portrait of 8-year-old Irene at the banker's residence of Louis Kahn Andezep.
Little Irene has flaxen fluffy hair that hangs down to her chest and waist. On that day, she sat quietly by her side according to the posture of painting, looking a little pale and clever, looking scared and a little shy. Beautiful hair tied with a blue bow echoes the light blue dress and looks quiet and elegant.
The dark background of the picture just sets off the girl depicted by bright and loud warm tones. The author used special traditional techniques to describe the girl's soft and elastic skin and innocent image. The whole painting is colorful and unique.
Character modeling avoids clear outlines and thick lines, but sets off the picture in a natural and realistic style, with a lazy, mottled light and shadow and warm feeling in the afternoon sunshine. This little girl with blonde shawl is very young and quiet, dreamlike, giving people infinite beauty and distant imagination. After so many years, Miss Condavis was praised by Renoir for her beauty, which he will never forget.
The Portrait of Miss Condavis represents a very important style of Renoir's works, that is, it puts the fresh and vivid sense of nature in the first place, describes the natural scenery bathed in light in detail, seeks and grasps the change and interaction of colors in cold and warm, accurately grasps the swift technique of objects in a seemingly random way, records the changing light and color effect on canvas, and tries to give people visual comfort with light sense and light-dark ratio, instead of thinking too much about the heaviness of life.
Little Irene was only eight years old at that time, but she had a melancholy temperament that could not be described in words. What is revealed in her eyes is a rare vicissitudes of life and age, a melancholy expression, a pale face and a symbol of contradiction. Obviously, she is French, but she has a mysterious charm of the East.
But it is said that the banker didn't like the portrait, so he delayed payment for more than a year and only paid half of the original agreement. Want-to-be fathers don't want to see their baby daughter with sadness, and it's hard to understand where this sadness comes from. Perhaps, this sadness is a portrayal of her fate in troubled times.
Many years later, Kamondo, a Jewish businessman, married Irene Kahn Antwerp (1872 1963). They have two children, Nissim and Beatrice, who divorced at 190 1.
His son Captain Nisin de Camondo 19 17 died in a car accident in Lorraine, eastern France. Daughter Beatrice de Camondo married Leon Reinach. They have two children: Fanny from 1920 and Bertrand from 1923.
Granddaughter Fanny died in1943 65438+ February 3 1, grandson Bertrand died in1944 April 15, son-in-law Leon died in1944 May 12, and daughter Beatrice died in. Carmen's ex-wife Irene Blaise became a Catholic, a countess of Sampiri, and escaped Nazi persecution. But in the end, she was still alone. She recovered Camondo's wealth and squandered it.
In this portrait, the painter used a gentle and quiet brushwork to blend light and shadow most gently. Her eyes are pure and bright, sad and pitiful. Her eyes reveal mystery, melancholy and vicissitudes. She looks dignified, but she is so preoccupied ... it has nothing to do with gender, age and national boundaries. She is the desire and pursuit of beauty in the hearts of the world.
Perhaps Renoir blended the complicated feelings of life into little Irene's expression. Perhaps, everyone has a little Irene in their hearts, half sad and half happy. ? Maybe that's why she's still unhappy despite everything. Perhaps, it also indicates her fate, losing everything and a lonely and desolate life.
Little Irene: A perishable and eternal girl.
Speaking of beauty, people always think of people and things that appear like meteors. Perhaps it is because they are perishable that they achieve eternity.
Renoir said he wanted to paint a unique look of everyone, and I realized it. Perhaps the reason why Little Irene is so charming is that it has unspeakable sadness under its bright and pure appearance, just like Renoir's pursuit of beautiful things and her lingering pain.
A good painting will resonate with you at first sight, as if it has a vivid life, as if your meeting with it is a long-lost reunion. So, you will feel that this is your own regret.
Renoir (Renoir,1841-1919)
French painter, one of the most famous impressionist masters in France in the19th century, is considered as a young and beautiful singer in impressionism.
Renoir was originally closely related to the impressionist movement. His early works are typical impressionist works that record real life and are full of dazzling brilliance. However, in the mid-1980s (18th century), he split from the impressionist movement and turned to portrait painting and portrait painting, especially female portrait painting, to exert his more rigorous and formal painting techniques.
Among all impressionist painters, Renoir is probably the most popular one, because he painted beautiful children, lively parties, lovely women and beautiful scenery. He worships beauty and loves all the beautiful things in life. Seeing his paintings has a sense of happiness of "bathing in love". These will attract people immediately. Renoir directly expressed the pleasant feeling from life on the canvas.
He once said, "Why can't art be beautiful? There are enough ugly things in the world. " He is also an admirer of female images. He said, "Only when I think I can touch the people in the painting can I complete the portrait of the human body."
Engels also commented on Renoir's painting style: it makes the works present an elegant and natural beauty, and will not make people have any thinking burden except the most direct pleasant feeling. There are no negative reactions and answers to life in his paintings.
Biography movie? Renoir
Events in extreme silence and the flow of emotions constitute the aesthetic feeling of images.
References:
Zheng Min's poem Renoir
People who pursue you come into your depths from those half-drooping eyes.
Although they are open, they do not project light to the outside world.
It's like the entrance to the ocean of souls, from where everything is yours.
Thoughts flow back to a calm body, just like the tide sucked back by the center of the earth.
Now I see your tight lips.
Remind me that the rocky coast blocks a deep self.
Although your long hair smells of youth,
But you are so pale, still like a dark early spring.
Oh, you are not a shining star, and neither are you.
Fragrant roses, or ripe fruits,
It's just the closure before spitting, the bitterness before maturity.
Look, one is how the soul locks itself tightly first,
And show it to the world. She meditated and tried to exercise herself.
In order to move towards a world full of giving and receiving love.
Thesis:
Sweet Sorrow and Aesthetic Meditation —— Appreciation of Zheng Min's Renoir Works
Sweet sadness and meaningful poetry —— Appreciation of Renoir's Portrait of Miss Condavis
Appreciation of Renoir's works
Mensu culture
Pursuing spiritual and cultural life
Recommend a movie in which the hero is fascinated by his favorite works of art.
Virgin robbery.
Roger (christopher walken), Charles (Morgan Freeman) and George (William H. Macy) are three colleagues and friends who have worked together for many years. They all work in a museum with a long history. In the long years, the three partners have deep feelings for the collections that accompany the museum day and night. Unexpectedly, the new boss actually wants to transfer all the existing collections. So, the three old buddies hit it off and decided to steal the cultural relics. ...