Research Of Artistic Language Comparative Between Bernard Cathelin And Euan Uglow

From the first half of the 20 th century,various schools of western modern art have become an indelible mark in the whole process of art development.All kinds of art and genre painting arises at the historic moment,Some western countries such as Europe and America have launched the New Art Movement with the aim of “returning to nature”.The artistic style of this period has diversity,which also contrasts to the earlier traditional aesthetics,showing the characteristics of “anti-traditional”.As the American art theorist Harold Rosenberg stated,it has become a "new tradition"(a new tradition).Bernard Cathelin and Euan Uglo were modernist realist painters who had grown up in this great age.What they had in common was that they had been influenced by both modern art and contemporary art.Although the two artists had different life experiences and living environment,they won the nourishment of contemporary art and kept their hearts on art and made their own unique artistic language.These two artists had painting techniques advocated by the classical art,and at the same time have carried out their own re-creation.They observed the world carefully and used subjective consciousness to reconstruct a new "nature" in the mind.They adhere to the meticulous nature of traditional art,and combined rational thinking with innovative ideas.By collecting the two artists’ life information and analyzing their works we can clearly find that their creation and painting are closely connected.They performed their personal expressions boldly and freely with brushes and paints.Both Bernard Cathelin and Euan Uglo have generalized and refined the shapes of objects.The paintings of Bernard Cathelin are more expressive and decorative,while Euan Uglo’s paintings are full of rational temperament,emphasizing that they are trained to depict objective objects.Bernard Cathelin’s works have very concise outline and geometric precision layout,and the unique application of the color "Mexican red" has become one of his important artistic features.The picture is composed of the rectangular arrangement structure,and the pigment is piled high.The color purity is high and the contrast is strong,highlighting the artistic style and the love of nature.In the same period,the painting works of Euan Uglo are constructed in geometric forms,and the whole picture shows a solemn and solemn atmosphere.He believes that the rigorous method of painting measurement and the creative process are as important as the original intention of the work.Using absolute precision ratio to achieve true reproduction of the objective object,both artists’ artistic languages are highly personal.Studying and exploring the painting theories and works of these two modern masters who are active in the 20 th century are of great significance to my personal study and understanding of the relationship between modern and postmodern art,as well as my own artistic creation and development in the future.This article seeks to be able to draw close to the works of Bernard Cathelin and Euan Uglo,and to better interpret the artist’s artistic language style and the painting ideas to be expressed.From the analysis and comparison of their oil painting’s artistic shape,cloth color pattern,their unique application of color and artistic conception,etc.,it brings us new enlightenment and reflection on the oil painting creation process.The comparison and analysis of their way of oil painting art,cloth color,the original application of color and artistic conception bring us new new inspiration and thinking in oil painting creation process.