Value Analysis Of Claude Lorrain’s “Landscape With Dancing Figures”

Claude Lorrain was the most great French classical ideal landscape painter of the 17 th century. His artistic style was not only influenced by the classical art style of the ancient Greek, Roman, and Bolognese Academy,but also influenced by Italy and any other countries’ baroque art of the 17 th century. Claude Lorrain’s works include both classical art style and the characteristics of Baroque art, also contains the performance of related arts. “Landscape with Dancing Figures” is a typical performance in these characteristics and these characteristics also directly affects the value of the work. The dissertation adopt progressive type, comparison, interdisciplinary integration’s research method, respectively for the work of art value, historical value and economic value for research. “Landscape with Dancing Figures” not only has excellent painting performance skills but also has the unique artistic characteristics, especially the use of natural light uniform composition, the choice of the illuminate of light angle, and the performance to the art of dance, music, etc. to make it unique. The historical value of the study of “Landscape with Dancing Figures” showed that Claude Lorrain not only inherited classical art style of the 16 th century, but also influenced the 18 th century British landscape painting master like Turner, Constable.etc. And indirectly affected the impressionist paintings in the 19 th century very much. The dissertation by studying the influence of the economic value different factors of “Landscape with Dancing Figures”, confirms Claude Lorrain’s works has a great highly economic value. The dissertation by understanding Claude Lorrain’s artistic style, make art creators and amateurs has an overall understanding of the value of “Landscape with Dancing Figures”; make them pay attention to the classical art of different artistic style evolution and the important role of the artistic creation; make them pay attention to the positive influence of related arts to painting creations and guide the audience to appreciate the paintings from various angles.