The Fountain was probably brewed during Angel's stay in Florence, Italy in 183, but it has never been finished. The "spring" originally conceived in Angel's mind was to imitate the wishes of Italian masters when drawing Venus. He drew some sketches as early as 187, but later he did not satisfy the "Venus" style that his predecessors had drawn, in an attempt to make the image more simple. Twenty-six years later, when he was 76 years old, he finished painting this painting. It is said that there was an assistant to help him draw it. If some people think that this painting was originally completed with the help of two of his students, Paul Balser and Alexander Degoff. Angel has worked hard on nude sketch all his life, and only when facing nude models did his realistic insights emerge. Fountain (1856) is one of the most famous paintings by Angel. In order to create this work well, Angel has been brewing for 36 years. It shows the classical beauty that the painter pursues all his life through the image of a naked girl holding a pot and pouring water. The touching thing about this work is that it shows the purity of the girl in a unique way, creating a quiet, elegant and lyrical artistic conception on the screen. In fact, the posture of the girl's upper limbs in the painting does not conform to the dynamic law of the human body. In order to make the girl's movement look more beautiful, Angel made up such an impossible action for her. This painting is very magical for water. The spring water pouring out of the water bottle is the most dynamic factor in the quiet picture. But after the artist's ingenious treatment, the flowing clear spring not only did not break the sense of tranquility of the picture, but also added a flowing rhythm to it.
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The content of "Spring" is a young naked woman holding a pot to let the water pour out, which shows the beauty of tranquility, lyricism and purity that can be universally praised by human beings. "Spring" skillfully combines the classical beauty with the beauty of women's bodies. The girl's muscles are more attractive because of Anger's beautiful gentle curves, and the use of colors is very soft and varied. A critic visited Fountain and said, "This young girl is the product of the painter's declining art. Her beauty has surpassed that of all women. She has concentrated their own beauty and her image is more vibrant and ideal."
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Angel has worked hard on nude sketch all his life, and only when he faces nude models does his realistic insight show up in a special way. He once said: "standard beauty-this is the product of continuous observation of beautiful models", and also believed that: "the expressive force of a painting depends on the author's rich sketch knowledge; Aside from absolute accuracy, there can be no vivid performance. Grasping the approximate accuracy is equivalent to losing accuracy. In that way, it is tantamount to creating a fictional character and hypocritical feelings that they have no feelings at all. " The last romantic painter of classical painting absorbed the realistic skills of the predecessors and masters of the Renaissance, and brought his sketching skills into full play. What's different here is that the naked women of masters like Massacho, Michelangelo and Giorgio embody an ideal of the times full of humanity, while the ideal that Angel places on naked women is the abstract concept of "eternal beauty". In fact, it is to seek the expressive force of female beauty in harmony with lines, shapes and colors. This is particularly evident in his paintings of naked women who depict Turkish ladies-in-waiting. In his later years, Angel painted this painting "Spring", which further reflected the painter's brand-new concept of beauty, that is, he deeply felt the necessity of creating an abstract classical beauty model with fine modeling means. 76-year-old Angel finally found a perfect combination of the abstract classical beauty accumulated in his heart for a long time and the concrete realistic girl beauty in this "Spring". Anger often copies the same theme or idea, sometimes it takes years or even decades. For example, two copies of one of his paintings, Luo Zhe and Angelica, were made in 1841. There are five copies of Paul and Piero Della Francesca, the earliest one was made in 1819, and the others were made after 1856. Sometimes, in this painting, he appeared individual characters that had appeared in another painting, such as the image in "The Bathing Girl of Valpingsong", which appeared again in the later painting "hamam"; The Virgin Mary in The Holy Communion was moved from another composition of Louis XIII's Oath, and one of the angels had almost the same face as the naked woman in his hamam. This painting "The Spring" (made in 1856, now in the Louvre) is basically similar to "Venus of Anaheim" (made in 1848, now in the Gonder Art Museum in Chantilly, France, which depicts the goddess born from the seawater bubble, so it depicts Venus rising from the seawater bubble and surrounded by many little love god), with only minor changes. In addition, the image of a group of little angels around was deleted. In the past, some people thought that this kind of creative feature was a manifestation of the exhaustion of Anger's creative thoughts, so it was too arbitrary to say so. Of course, classical painters rarely go to real life except painting models, but Angel himself explained that this is a reflection of the spirit of seeking to make the theme closer to his ideal and the image more perfect.
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When "The Spring" was finished, the painter said to people, "There were five buyers at the same time, and someone just pounced on me. They are arguing endlessly, and I almost want them to draw lots. " "Spring" does have the quality of "pure beauty" that people yearn for. Although it is the ideal embodiment of the painter who has been in his heart for half a century, once it is put on canvas, people really admire the artist's work. In 1857, The Spring was acquired by Count Demeter (also translated as Count Jiushateli) and became a private collection of paintings. Later, according to the earl's will, his home belonged to the country in 1878, and this painting became another treasure in the Louvre in Paris.
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The Fountain, a work by French artist marcel duchamp. The so-called Fountain is actually a ceramic urinal, and this urinal was not made by Duchamp himself, but was just bought from a store, marked with "R·Mutt" and named as the Fountain. Duchamp himself elaborated on this work as follows: "It doesn't matter who made this thing, but the key is to choose the ordinary thing in this life, put it in a new place, give it a new name and a new viewing angle, and its original function has disappeared, but it has gained a new content." In 1917, Duchamp named a urinal for men bought from a store "Spring" and anonymously sent it to an exhibition of independent artists in the United States for display as a work of art, which aroused strong repercussions and became a landmark event in the history of modern art. The reason why Duchamp named the urinal "Spring" is not only its dripping appearance, but also a satire on the spring painted by artists. In 24, in a selection held by the British art world, The Spring beat the modern artist Picasso's The Girl of Avignon and the pop artist andy warhol's The Golden Marilyn, and was elected as the most influential work in modern art. In this selection, 64% of the judges voted for Duchamp's The Spring, while Picasso's famous painting The Girl of Avignon, which ranked second, only got 4%. The Girl of Avignon is regarded as the pioneering work of cubism and once regarded as the first great masterpiece of modern art by the art world.
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Duchamp's "The Spring" is intended to question people's ideas about what art is: there are few things that make people think about what art really is or how it is expressed; They just assume that art is either painting or sculpture. Therefore, few people will regard the Spring as a work of art.. "Could this urinal be a work of art?" In the process of transforming urinal into a work of art, the change of name turned out to be so important. It is the change of this name that has become unusual, which makes people change the angle of looking at objects. The urinal, which is different from the elegant hall, is also regarded as an elegant art.