Study On The Relationship Between Painting And Balzac's View Of Literature And Art And His Novel Creation

The greatest breakthrough development of French novel creation owes a great debt to Balzac, whose innovation of novel creation is mainly based on his comprehension and absorb of painting, for the influence of painting to his artistic spirit is comprehensive, inherent and profound. Terms of painting such as line, outline and light, etc. as well as expressions of painting are widely used in Balzac's novels to represent the exquisite and lifelike overall life pictures. First, he deeply explains his own view of realistic literature and art through painting and emphases on creating typical characters, which are fully adhered to in his practical writing. In addition, he pays close attention to the details, from which he explores the great value and regards them as the means to display the great social theme. Then, he describes the material environment with great care and precision so as to make his works full of numerous and complicated images and combines closely them with characterization. Last but not least, he pays attention to describe the appearance and the inner heart of the characters by portraying the individual and expressive looks, postures and movements. In short, the most important aspect of his innovation lies in achieving true pursuit in his novels, thus the literature descriptions in his novels are unprecedentedly realistic, vivid and lifelike. The typical example of which is his representative work La Comédie humaine. With strong characteristics of painting, this book undoubtedly shows and highlights the above deep realistic authenticity, so it plays a big role on the unprecedented comprehensive, profound and detailed description of France's social panorama of the 19th century.This paper, based on the above contents and painting theory, by analyzing a large number of examples from the unique angle of painting, has a comprehensive and systematic discussion on the features of de Balzac's view of art and literature and explores the profound aesthetic connotation of his works.