Harem Paintings Of19th Century’s Oriental Paintings And Orientalism Construction

Oriental Paintings of Europe in the nineteenth century, along with the colonialexpansion began to flourish, and a time to pursue the life of Oriental female boudoirimages become fashionable.Harem paintings as the most controversial image, theimage of the female subjectivity presented Oriental Paintings to the forefront.Invisual arts, Harem paintings implied erotic nude painting of an excuse, the slavebecome a symbol of the exotic and the erotic painting.This paper in order to in-depthresearch Harem paintings behind the construction of Western Orientalism.This paper first cut from the background of the Harem paintings, investigate thecauses of the harem boudoir images,Then Harem paintings sorting, formal styleanalysis of the three categories of subject matter of daily life,bathroom and slavetheme,Recorded in similarity and contrast each type of theme construct special scenewith the same period female travel literature;Then use iconography analysis withIslam means that the screen scene props, visual meaning of the mining of itsmetaphors, verify that the artist is inspired by literature records and by imagining theconstruction of the harem boudoir scene.Based on collected a lot of Harem paintingsanalysis of some representative painters, and most typical British Victorian artistJohn Frederick Lewis, the specific analysis of the painter how the Oriental haremwith the unique space image constructed.Finally, the Harem paintings into a broadercultural context and to discuss how to look at Orientalism in exotic Western art andvisual culture, to reflect on the impact of colonial culture of contemporary art.The innovation of this paper is the Harem paintings separated from the OrientalPaintings specialized research,And the visual arts and literature records werecompared to discuss Orientalism in the visual arts, involved in the political, racial,gender, and cultural dimensions of cross-cutting research.The conclusion is that the display of the Harem paintings belong to the colonial cultural achievements, but notartists founded, it is not subjective or even extreme look at Orientalism in the visualarts, we should restore it to the historical context of the objective existence ofanalysis.