The Female Images Of Impressionist And Post-Impressionist Painting

The paper explains the effects of artistic creation environment on artists and how artists actually represent the images of characters in the specific age via the females in different social scenes in impressionism and post-impressionism paintings. The development of industrial cities and reform of production relationship in the 19 th century emancipated women from indoors. They could integrate into modern life. The depiction of modern society by impressionism and post-impressionism painters came from their actual life experience. By enumerating on females' images, they revealed every aspect of the social life. In addition, impressionism and post-impressionism painters described the females' images in different social environment, and narrated that girl in cities had to work hard to make a living. Young and good-looking girls chose some less pressing work, such as dancers, singing performers, servants, salesgirls and so on. Such girls often got in touch with people from upper class. The rich materials dazzled them, seduced them both physically and mentally. They were more eager to get closer to the upper society. With the ideal of integrating into the middle class, they worked harder, bought some unnecessary products with the salary they had earned, and then devoted to work. For the sake of satisfying their desire for materials, they were trapped cyclically. Prostitutes sold their bodies as commodities for living or materials, which was a different way out. Compared with attractive women who could make money with youth and beauty, those that did not have good appearance could only make living with manual work, such as laundry workers.They were at the lowest level, and did the hardest work. Prostitutes' bodies showed the tiredness of souls, while laundry girls' bodies were purely physical fatigue. In comparison with the low-level girls who had to support their families, modern women above the middle class had admirable families and children, without any worries about materials.They occupied cultural capital from their childhood, so they received goof education and had decent elegance. With an in-depth and stable family bond, the women enjoying thelove of family regarded taking care of children as their primary duty. Finally, the paper elaborates on the problems that women encountered in social life. Suppressed by modern civilization, the absence of self-consciousness, spiritual distress and physical weakness were all caused in modern industrial society. How to return to physical sensitivity and happiness is worth reflecting. From impressionism and post-impressionism painters' passion for eulogizing women's classical beauty of physical body, we can find that the liberty of nature is the key of the emancipation of mankind's essence.Impressionism and post-impressionism painter explored into the effects of development of industrial cities and reform of production relationship on their bodies and soul from describing their dressing, postures, facial expressions and internal emotions. Besides, they placed the female's images in the specific age in the public area with the most distinctive modern characteristics so as to discover and extract the images with the spirit specific to the era as well as make the beauty eternal. In their depiction, the females either radiated charms and appeals with their confidence and independence, or demonstrated fatigue after hard work, or showed happiness due to taking care of the families or children, or presented the primitive simplicity after getting far away from the noises in cities, or manifesting the natural state of returning to classical beauty. In the modern society, there are more places with various women's identities. Women also play diverse, changing and uncontrollable roles in society. They are all symbols of modern life that overthrow the traditional stereotyped social identity attached to women.