Together And Against

Vilhelm Hammershoi,1864—1916,a Danish artist,whose paintings depict the sentiment of silence and mystery,being like a soundless poem,tells people his inner feelings.A famous Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke once posed high comment on Hammershoi,"He could not be an artist introduced in a rush,his paintings are like a long subtle walk and provide people with the fundamental element for art."Based upon the relationship between photography and painting,this thesis focuses on how photography influences Hammershoi's painting.Casper Mona,a European art historian,once talked about the relationship between his work "The Port of Crischin"(1905)and the black-and-white photograph of the French photographer Henry Lemoin,"Ships in the Harbor"(circa 1900).Mona argued that a silhouette-type effect produced by the capture of the mere black-and-white relationship of the object in the photography,which has attracted the artist's attention,and the method of setting up the reality with compact geometric composition completes an inherent consistency in the images of the two.As the basis of the thesis,Caspar Mona found that in his creation of The port of Crischin,the mast and rope were shaped as silhouette effects,which were repeated in many photographs of related topics taken by European photographers at that time,so photography had a certain impact on its unique light design and simple geometric composition in the creation of Hammershoi.Back in history,the emergence of photography has an important impact on the art of painting,for example,in the works of impressionist artists can beseen this shadow,in Monet's creation,it often uses a fixed lens perspective to record the relationship between the light and shadow of different moments,and in Degas' s works,it uses the close-up of photography art,emphasizing the focus of the viewer's point of view,breaking the principle of balanced and harmonious composition in classical college art,and making dramatic light setting in painting,using the effect of cloth light in photography art.And then,photographic realism,with photographs as visual references,presented realistically and objectively on canvas,as the artist Chuck Close put it,"My main purpose is to translate the information of photography into the information of the painting",and it is obvious that,the emergence of photography provides a new visual cognitive logic for the artist's artistic creation.In this thesis,as a point of reflection,in the discussion of the relationship between Hammershoi's painting and photography,the theme will be "together and against","Together" lies in the work of Hammershoi,the exploration and application of photography,that is,the influence of photography on the shaping of his visual works,and "Against" lies in the artist's inner view of photography and photographic material,integrates the feelings of ego into it,and makes the visual shaping of the subject's cognition,so as to present the relationship between his painting and photography more clearly.