week20

In the troubled Africa, Ethiopia is a mountainous plateau country, because many rivers originated here, people here are known as the "East Asian water tower." However, due to colonial plunder, domestic political unrest continued, the economy is very backward, even the best sources of water have also been destroyed, so here successive years of drought, crop failure.

This painting shows a close up shot much of drought stricken status: one-year-old boy to the extreme thirst. Like a sun exposure of seedlings by fire, the nectar desire to come, but there is no dew. Little boy needs for life instinct, ran once had water pipe flow down desperately sucking. This is his source of life, this is his only way of life. His eyes were closed, tanned skin like a long life statue. However, there is no longer water, what happens? Self-evident. Works great appeal lies.

week19

This volume stream painting of a bay, clear and transparent, the Indus willow, greenery into a fun, horses several horses, horse official nine. Horse painting different attitude, demeanor and vivid, and some stand in the water, drinking water and some grass, and some head scream, some lying stand and stare. Horse Creek provisional government were horse, horse body bath or shower, or rest on the shore. People, pommel horse were treated with different colors, rich full-bodied yet elegant, so that the color does not cover the pen. Pen fine, thick lip color, style, fresh and beautiful. Zhao Mengshun figures represent the pommel horse in the typical style of painting is amplitude Vivid, Miao Yi and with an elegant style of art.

week18

Tao Yuanming was a Chinese poet of the Six Dynasties period (c. 220 - 589 CE). Tao Yuanming later changed his name to Tao Qian and is generally regarded as the greatest poet during the centuries between the Han and Tang dynasties. He is also the foremost of the "recluse" poets, or the poets who seem to have written their greatest work while in reclusion and/or those poets in whose poems the theme of countryside solitude particularly resonates.

Eastern pastoral poet Tao Yuanming's famous "Chosun" has always been a favorite of many painters theme, which does not lack many masterpieces. Now in the possession of the Ming Dynasty in Liaoning Provincial Museum, "Chosun map" volume is one of the masterpieces. This volume is Ma Shi Li, Xia Zhi three to make, according to Tao famous "Chosun" and co-comic style works for a total of nine, packed into a roll.

week17

Snow did not really come in front of you, you are really hard to feel the wonderful world so wide. When you actually stand in front of them, you will have insight, admiration and moved. Looking at mountains, any admirers words seemed so overconfident. It is so huge there, you will find yourself so mediocre and small, you will find you and it is the same, but is a substance of this material world there is nothing more. Any fame and fortune could stop journey set to us by nature. Life is so ordinary, the world is so broad.

week16

Sunflowers are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The earlier series executed in Paris in 1887 depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set executed a year later in Arles shows bouquets of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. About eight months later Van Gogh hoped to welcome and to impress Gauguin again with Sunflowers, now part of the painted décoration that he prepared for the guest room of his Yellow House, where Gauguin was supposed to stay in Arles. After Gauguin's departure, Van Gogh imagined the two major versions as wings of the Berceuse Triptych, and finally he included them in his exhibit at Les XX in Bruxelles.


Sunflower "is all high in the south of France. When the painting. Southern sunshine make painter ecstasy, he painted a series of still life with yellow, to express the inner feelings, "sunflower" is the representative work. The artist put sunflower yellow painting extremely dazzling in short strokes, each flower as the flame burning in general, crushing the petals and sunflower leaf like flame like full screen, the whole painting like burning flame over the canvas, the painter cult show the passion of life

week15

The subject of this picture is the white swan. Author to the horizon in "the word segmentation" a gold line, the Swan left in the left lower corner of the picture of the gold point, right two swans in the lower right corner of the screen the gold point, the other three swans center, the main highlight, able to attract attention, attention. At the same time, the author put the Swan positive, side, back out on the wings, swan thrives in the middle, the Swan outspread wings, raise head and Swan off with a splash the Swan majestic blooming state. The author also uses the actual contrast more highlights the main. The picture is the swan, swan in front of and behind the reeds faintly visible mountain is empty. The picture only blue and white two colors, the sea is blue in the sky reflection, so that the swan is more obvious.

week14

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (June 8 (O.S. May 27), 1837, Ostrogozhsk – April 6 (O.S. March 24), 1887, Saint Petersburg; Russian: Ива́н Никола́евич Крамско́й) was a Russian painter and art critic. He was an intellectual leader of the Russian democratic art movement in 1860-1880.In one of Kramskoi’s most well known paintings, Christ in the Desert (1872, Tretyakov gallery), he continued Alexander Ivanov's humanistic tradition by treating a religious subject in moral–philosophical terms. He imbued his image of Christ with dramatic experiences in a deeply psychological and vital interpretation, evoking the idea of his heroic self-sacrifice.

Aspiring to expand the ideological expressiveness of his images, Kramskoi created art that existed on the cusp of portraiture and genre-painting ("Nekrasov during the period of 'Last songs,'" 1877–78; "Unknown Woman," 1883; "Inconsolable grief," 1884; all in Tretyakov gallery). These paintings disclose their subjects' complex and sincere emotions, their personalities and fates. The democratic orientation of Kramskoi’s art, his acute critical judgments about it, and his persistent quest for objective public criteria for the evaluation of art exerted an essential influence on the development of democratic art and aesthetics in Russia in the last third of the nineteenth century.

This is a picture of an aesthetic value character portrait painter, with exquisite skill to show spirit. The unnamed woman proud and proud, she wore Russian high society luxury clothing, sitting in the luxurious open carriage, the background is St Petersburg's famous Alexander theatre. Who are the "nameless girl", is still a mystery. The painter has created a new style in portraiture, the theme of the story to the portraits, showing a strong, decisive, full of thoughts, exudes youthful vigor of Russian intellectual female image

week13

Vasily Vladimirovich Pukirev(1832–1890) was a Russian painter and illustrator. He is primarily known as the artist of the painting The Unequal Marriage. Vasily studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He first worked as a portraitist but later turned to historical painting.

In this painting, the artist is reflected in the fate of women theme. A close-up of composition, showing a wedding scene: a sixteen, seven year old girl's wedding and a white haired old man, the priest blessed them, bride bowed reluctantly acquiesced to a tragic fate, and become the old man is a haughty air. The painter captures a social phenomenon that sick, use their own art reveals a social exchange and on women's destruction.

week11

This is the Russian realism master Repin in the late nineteenth Century the creation of " unexpected return ". The artist created a in tsarist rule persecuted revolutionary intellectuals image. After a long exile and slavery, who suddenly returned. A face is thin, bearded middle-aged man came into the room, still dressed in the clothes. The maid took him as a " stranger ", the wife surprisingly stood up from the sofa. There are old pictures of the mother and two infant children. The painting was exhibited several twists and turns.

In " unexpected return " draft, the revolutionary intellectuals is a female convicts. Repin later in life when finalized, changed into a tormented middle-aged man, his bearded, wan-looking, thin body also not timely replacement of wearing jumpsuits.

week10

The picture color gorgeous, cold and warm, light conversion and transition, and the picture of emotional blending, be just perfect. In the overall context, the characterization of primary and secondary, identity, distinct levels. In the light of the nobles, and gorgeous clothing, but artists in gray tone down; in the shadow of the musicians appear in the candlelight, be absorbed in air. Really is in focus and be of concern, the flute player, his attitude clear, preoccupied, intoxicated with the melody. Give him a warm light, black made his solemn, beautiful music, seems to be from the performers fingertips overflow, and filled with opulent space.

week9

Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view outside of his sanitarium room window at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (located in southern France) at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, part of the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, since 1941. The painting is among Van Gogh's most well-known works and marks a decisive turn towards greater imaginative freedom in his art.

Starry starry night, also translated as "starry night". The 1889 Holland post impressionist painter Vincent VanGhon in a psychiatric hospital in St Remy created a famous painting. The picture shows two lines style, one is the distorted line, a broken line. Two interactive use, so that the screen is in dazzling fantasy scenes. In the composition of the sky, a contrast with the quiet village. Flame and transverse mountain ranges, the sky a visual balance. Now in the possession of the New York Museum of modern art.

week8

"The Gleaner" is a French painter Miller in 1857 created figures in landscape paintings, picture depicts the country fall after harvest, people pick up surplus grain from the fields picking scenario, it did not show any dramatic scenes, is a typical representative of realistic art style, is a piece of work is most can represent Miller's painting style.

he Gleaners is an example of Realism. It features three peasant women prominently in the foreground, stooping to glean the last scraps of a wheat harvest. Their gaze does not meet the viewer, and their faces are obscured. In the background, bountiful amounts of wheat are being stacked while a landlord overseer stands watch on the right. Millet has chosen to center the women and paint them with a greater contrast. The earthy figures blend into the color of the piece, ingraining them well into the scene. Through the misalignment of vanishing points among the three women (as drawn along the backs of the women), and in particular never aligning with the central focus of the background, Millet conveys the message that while the lowest-class women occupy the same canvas as the abundance depicted in the background, they will never be a part of that actual physical abundance—they occupy their own space layered on top of another space, in both the painting and in real life. This is a commentary on the lower classes' inaccessibility to upward mobility.

week7

"Monalisa" is the Renaissance painter Leonardo Da Finch painted a portrait of Lisa Chogondo. The French government to keep it in Paris's Le Louvre Museum for the public to enjoy. In July 17, 2012, archaeologists in Italy recently claimed to have found suspected nun Lisa Gailaer Denny's bones. The Monalisa "prototype" identity, public opinions are divergent. From all walks of life, but Lisa Gailaer Dini is "Monalisa" is widely accepted. British media said, through the reduction of the bones, may help people uncover the mystery Monalisa "smile".

Leonardo used a pyramid design to place the woman simply and calmly in the space of the painting. Her folded hands form the front corner of the pyramid. Her breast, neck and face glow in the same light that models her hands. The light gives the variety of living surfaces an underlying geometry of spheres and circles. Leonardo referred to a seemingly simple formula for seated female figure: the images of seated Madonna, which were widespread at the time. He effectively modified this formula in order to create the visual impression of distance between the sitter and the observer. The armrest of the chair functions as a dividing element between Mona Lisa and the viewer.

week6

The world famous painting, "the Volga River boat tracker" is the representative work of Ilya Efimovich Repin, but also for his fame, one of the outstanding representative of realistic painting. The picture shows the: hot summer, long barren beach, a be shabby in dress trackers tugged the freighter, walking forward heavy. A low chant and river water in the hot summer of Yin sad together. The Russian National Art Museum collection in St Petersburg.

The boat trackers " Volga River " is Repin's masterpiece, but also for his fame. In the composition of the picture, Repin has used the beach topography and bend twist, so that eleven trackers is a group of statues, portrayed in a yellow, high base, so that the painting has a magnificent profound tension, the background using the dark color of the misty space is empty, peculiar, to people with melancholy, lonely, helpless feeling, cogent and thorough to my soul, is also a painter mood of true portrayal, the purport of painting embodiment, emotion plays a significant role in the foil. In the picture on the painter of landscape of Volga River were ingenious layout, with a banner displaying this group of trackers. The Volga river sun scorching, beach deserted, close-range only buried in the sand with a few broken baskets. The scenery is very desolate. One team wore tattered trackers in pulling the ship, action is so heavy, seems to be able to hear a " song of the Volga Boatmen " suppress echo. The painting composition, lines, such as pen drawing skills are quite successful.

week5

Da Vinci's Last Supper has become one of the most widely appreciated masterpieces in the world. It began to acquire its unique reputation immediately after it was finished in 1498 and its prestige has never diminished. Despite the many changes in tastes, artistic styles, and rapid physical deterioration of the painting itself, the painting's status as an extraordinary creation has never been questioned nor doubted.

The Last Supper  is a late 15th-century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan. The work is presumed to have been commenced around 1495 and was commissioned as part of a scheme of renovations to the church and its convent buildings by Leonardo's patron Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. The painting represents the scene of The Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, as it is told in the Gospel of John, 13:21. Leonardo has depicted the consternation that occurred among the Twelve Disciples when Jesus announced that one of them would betray him.