The Study Of Balthus' Painting Art

Balthus is one of the most famous painters in the twentieth century and a master of the figurative painting art. His works blend the traditional and modern, Eastern and Western painting art styles, forming a style which is different from both traditional Western and oriental painting art.The paper is discussing about the formation of Balthus'painting thought and the interpretation of his paintings. It includes that Balthus'idea is under the influence of traditional and modern, eastern and western painting arts. Balthus sticks to the traditional painting art idea and continuously absorbs nutrients from the traditional art on the background of innovation and different thoughts are appearing in the twentieth century. The artistic ideas of Francesco Scarborough, Poussin, Cézanne who are traditional western painting masters all have a profound effect on Balthus'paintings. Balthus not only likes Chinese art, particularly the traditional one, but also has a deep understanding on it. He puts some Chinese painting and calligraphy painting factors into his art and creates a unique painting style which is different from the western and eastern painting styles. The interpretation of Balthus'painting works is not only the study of his paintings but also a concrete description of his painting spirit. Balthus'painting works are mostly scenes of daily life. But there are various scenarios and metaphors in the scenes of daily life. So his works show both realistic and unrealistic colors. Through arranging the picture structure and artistic language rationally, Balthus'works showing a plane graphic effect, with a clear sense of formation and decoration. But its formation serves for the content, rather than pure the formalism.In this paper, Balthus'painting art is the object, the formation of Balthus'artistic thought and the interpretation of Balthus'painting works are the main content. Through the study of Balthus'painting art, we can recognize that studying art needs to learn from others'works, especially the attitude in the learning process that we should insinst on innovating but not leaving from the traditional art.