Authenticity Inside The Vanity

In the Spanish courts of the 16 th and 17 th centuries,works of art were one of the effective means for the nobles to show off their wealth and power,and portrait works were indispensable for court decoration.As one of the chief painters during Philip IV's reign,Velázquez did not follow the old ways in his portraits for the court,but integrated his realism.His natural sensitivity to visual reality made the painter give up all his subjective experience to the real feelings of reality.Velázquez's pursuit of visual reality opened up a unique picture appearance in the cultural background at that time.In the development of oil painting,this unprecedented style of painting loyal to reality is also full of creativity.The development of oil painting skills to the era of Velázquez has been relatively complete.How to create new works in the social environment in which they live is a problem that is highly valued by Velázquez and is the most worthy of our consideration.How to make oil painting creation keep the times in the continuous development? How to inject fresh vitality into the creation without leaving the source of natural reality? This thesis attempts to study and explain the master's ideas in the creation by appreciating several representative works of Velasquez.