The Scenes After Mirror

Mirror image refers to the virtual image of an object in the mirror after being reflected by the mirror.In ancient times,people paid more attention to the mirror than the mirror images.As the mystical meaning of the mirror weakens and then further expanded with the practical function of the mirror.People gradually shift their attention to mirror images,which is clearly reflected in paintings.Since the Renaissance,mirror images have received widespread attention from painters.Jan Van Eyck's work <The Arnolfini Portrait> is the first appearance of the mirror image in the oil painting.The fundamental reason of mirroring in traditional reproducible oil paintings is that mirroring compensates for the limitations of painting to a certain extent.Secondly,it is also related to the imitation of Realistic painting by mirror.Mirror image had broken the space-time limit of traditional Realistic painting.In <A Bar at the Folies-Bergeres> by Edward Manet in1882,the mirror image became the main aesthetic object in the picture for the first time.After that,the mirror image painting was established and became popular.Contemporary artists pay attention to and express mirror images from different angles.Rene Magritte,Eduardo Naranjo and Richard Estes are representative painters who focus on mirror image painting.Magritte is good at using mirror images to show wrong logic,which stimulates the viewer's eyes and arouses the audience's thinking.Naranjo uses mirror images to show objects of different time and space in the picture,and is dedicated to the performance of mirror images in complex mirror combinations.Estes is dedicated to portraying the mirror of reflective objects in the city,and the complex and varied images of the glass in the streets of the city are fixed in his work,which brings the audience An unprecedented visual sensation.Mirror image theme oil painting creation in the contemporary has a very important value.First of all,the mirror image oil painting creation is closely related to the contemporary times,mirror image generalization has become the characteristics of the contemporary times,and the contemporary urban mirror effect and individual psychology under the trend of urbanization are coincident.Secondly,mirror image is the common motif between East and West painting.Excellent oil painting with mirror theme can be used as a bridge between East and West cultureand art under the background of globalization,which is also a way to promote national art to the world art.