Just And Soft Performance

Since late 19th and early 20th century, art circles has undergone tremendous changes: modernism art came into people's vision; modern painters greatly impacted traditional art; and art voice began to free from official institute and critics, and fall in hands of free artists. Among this group of artists, Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo gradually became well known. One is a representative figure of European modernism female painter; the other is praised as "Son of Pairs" as his depiction of Pairs landscape. However, in world art history, "son inherits from father, and teacher and pupil impart each other" has always been the main inheritance way of art. Due to the dominant role of male in the art voice, both father and son went done in history was quite common. Therefore, it's quite uneasy for Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo, a mother and son, to gain such honor. In the process of carefully analyzing their artworks, we can find that although they have both kinship ties and master-apprentice relation, Valadon's paintings emit the characteristic of 'masculine beauty' like unconstraint; powerfulness; profoundness, strength, robustness and magnificence, while Utrillo's works present 'feminine beauty' with harmony, balance, order, elegance, circumbendibus, purity and silence,which is quite different from the general rule of similarity embodied in the works of traditional mentor-disciple relationship. This unique contrast of "rigidity" and "flexibility" also adds a splendid page to world art history.This thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter introduces the historical background, life experience, art development and the relationship of Suzanne Valadon east and Maurice Utrillo. And this paper focuses on analyzing the common points in their paintings. The second chapter illustrates the artistic style presented by aesthetic concepts of "rigidity" and "flexibility", and specifically demonstrates it from the following three aspects:the origin of the concepts, their influence on art, and why would they penetrate in art works. The third chapter is the core part of the paper. The author analyses in detail about how Suzanne Valadon's paintings embody masculine beauty and how Utrillo's embody the beauty of morbidezza, and discusses why "rigidity" and "flexibility" show in their works. The fourth chapter is the implications of the research, involving the selection of artists' artistic style, current situation of the art development in modem society.