Living - Balthus Figurative

The synthetic image in Balthus painting art, is the contemporary sense of the figuration, a new figuration. He attached great importance to study and inherit the painting of predecessors, and developed his own language to the new painting. His art is the process to put the soul and emotion into the drawing, to make up his unique new form of figurative character. Balthus strove in his work to create and pursue the goal, as he himself said, "is to show what is behind the existence, that the things behind the visible world, could not be viewed by eye, but can be felt real by the spirit." This is the reason why his paintings are so re-readable, worthy for watching and thought, to explore the modern by its own, at the same time implies a long tradition, i.e. the spirits of classic, radiates a sense of timing, felt the real in the dream.