Analysis Of Characters In Bouguereau’s Oil Paintings

William-Adolphe Bouguereau(1825-1905)is one of the most typical artists in the official French “Salon” paintings in the nineteenth century.His exquisite and elegant classical techniques,quiet and beautiful painting style He is world-renowned for his strong and pious religious feelings,and he is a master of the French academy.When new trends of thought such as Impressionism continued to emerge,Bouguereau always defended French classical traditional culture and ancient Greek and Roman art,and became the guardian of French academic art.But after his death,he disappeared with his works,and for a long time he was lashed out by critics.However,with the progress of the times,Bouguereau’s works have once again attracted attention.Although Bouguereau admired classicism and created many works of religious themes,Brinell was also an eclectic,and he also absorbed the nourishment of other schools of the same period.From Brinell’s works,the subtle color matching and exquisite The exterior light treatment and the "Italian" style of French character imagery can be seen.The characters in Bouguereau’s works are mostly aesthetic and ideal characters,and he prefers female subjects.This may be related to Brinell’s tortuous life experience.War and riots caused his children and wives to die one after another.There are countless creations.Bouguereau created many works throughout his life.His beautiful character images and the skin texture that can be broken by a bomb make people forget to return.His works include male,half-orcs,children and women,and his female images are even more beautiful.Significantly,it is also the focus of the study of the character image in this thesis.Whether it is a female image with a unique aesthetic ideal in the work,or the character’s dynamics,expressions,clothing and scenes,Brinell undoubtedly made the most ingenious arrangements and depictions to make People are full of praise.Therefore,the difficulty and focus of this thesis is to analyze and explore the characters in Bouguereau’s oil paintings from many different angles,so as to obtain useful value from them,and to provide a richer theoretical basis for the current realistic painting of characters.