What is Degas s oil painting?

French Impressionist painting master Degas Degas represents a more prominent contradictory character in art history than other artists, especially on the issue of tradition and innovation, as well as his own artistic personality and contradiction with the major artistic trends of the times. Degas thus becomes a contradictory figure in the history of art that is difficult to classify and undoubtedly his status as a master. As an artistic youth who admired the classical tradition and received a systematic classical education, becoming a classical master like Ingres was undoubtedly Degas's ideal pursuit, but Degas, who was sensitive by nature and had good intuition, could not refuse the living modern life and modern emotions. This is on full display in Degas's portraits.

No artist can escape the influence of the times, and Degas is no exception, Degas belonged to and was independent of Impressionism during the Impressionist period, and Degas gained artistic independence by breaking through these contradictions layer by layer by intuition. Compared with the new modern artists in the West, Degas is more like an Oriental artist, constantly improving in a region. In particular, after Degas entered old age, he overcame the psychology of aging and devoted himself to art more purely, and his artistic life reached a kind of creative freedom after experiencing the awakening of the consciousness and impression period of the classical period.

Degas's exploration of color, shape, picture shaping and means of expression in his later years shows that Degas respected intuition, turned a physiological crisis into an artistic turnaround, inherited classicism and realism, and transcended impressionism and touched modernism, and became a unique master in the history of art. Understanding the various contradictions in Degas's life and the intuitive choices he made in the face of different contradictions is of great practical significance for us to understand Degas's art, the development and changes of an artist's artistic process, and the urgent problems that many of us artists face today. Artists should face the contradiction between self and artistic style, and trust intuition.

While respecting and learning from tradition, we must be anti-traditional, and only by anti-tradition, pointing the origin of art to the heart, can we inherit the tradition become more meaningful.

The shape is vivid and natural, the brushstrokes are light and flying, the brightness contrast is strong, the color density gap is large, and the light and shadow are separated.