The name of this oil painting is "Fountain".
"Spring", also known as "Spring Fairy", is an oil painting on canvas created by the French neoclassical painter Ingres from 1830 to 1856. It is now in the collection of Orsay, France. Art Museum.
The painting uses soft and varied colors and graceful curves to show the classical beauty of the female human body. The young naked woman holds a clay pot in her hands and lets the water inside slowly pour out. Her slightly bent knees and the muscle curves shown by lifting the clay pot create an elegant, pure and refined beauty.
On the dark background, a naked girl is taking a bath while carrying a water jug. Her tender feet were made of very hard blue-gray rock. There are a few petite wild flowers scattered around, creating a quiet and pure atmosphere. The girl's body stands upright in the posture of Venus de Milo, and is also displayed in front of the eyes with graceful changes in curves.
The girl is holding the water jug ??on her left shoulder with both hands. The clear water is flowing through the jade-like body. The expressionless face shows a pure and innocent look, especially Those beautiful big eyes are full of childishness, as quiet and clear as spring water.
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Creative background
In the eyes of Western classical artists, the female image is their universal favorite expression object, Venus de Milo , regarded as an eternal classic, the Venus that represents love and beauty is still a kind of beauty even if its arms are incomplete; Titian created the Venus of Urbino, and Leonardo da Vinci created many female images, representing A typical image of classical art.
Ingres did not have many subjects, and he even painted the same subject over and over again, using the same shape - women. ?
In 1830, while staying in Florence, Italy, Ingres began to draft the work "Fountain", but the draft was not completed. It was not until 1856, at the age of 76, that he completed this painting with the assistance of his assistants Alexandre Legefer and Jean-Paul Etienne Balzer.
The "Fountain" originally conceived in Angel's mind was a "Venus" style that imitated the wishes of the Italian masters when they painted Venus, trying to make the image simpler.
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