Preliminary Analysis Of Balthus's Painting Art

Balthus was a great master of figurative painting in twentieth Century. He seeked both the characteristics of objective things, and the spiritual things behind the picture, so that there was a "Like and not like" charm in his works.Balthus' s paintings mainly took the adolescent girls as the carrier, and the pursuit were the performance of people's spiritual feelings and subtle psychological changes giving figurative painting the new spirit of the times.He try hard to create a classical flavor, but still revealed the impact of modern art on his paintings, such as the Cezanne art for reference. So, his art is both classical and modern,the number of his paintings is not much, but we can see that Balthus plays an important role in the twentieth Century painting from Picasso's high evaluation of the artist.This article centers around the expansion of the profound spiritual connotation reflecte d in Balthus' s painting. By analying of the artist's artistic process and the time background o f the chaos in twentieth Century, this paper mainly excavates the art of Chinese and Western in Balthus' s paintings, such as Cezanne's classical painting art, Japanese Ukiyo-e, Chinese l andscape painting and calligraphy art. The effect of root formation on Balthus painting style is founded out by analyzing these related arts in other countries with Balthus' s in detail, an d eventually an overall analysis of the specific artistic features of his works is performed. B althus' works have a sense of mystery and eternity. The unique characteristics of picture for m deliver a thought-provoking connotation,in which both the sensibility and rationality are revealed, so that push the figurative painting of twentieth century to a new height.