From Life To Art

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin is a French still life painter and custom painter in the 18th century.He lived in the 18th century when the French feudal system gradually declined.In this period,Rococo style art was popular in French society.This style emphasized the happy and joyful mood.The paintings with the theme of describing romantic love were welcomed by the upper nobility.However,he did not drift with the tide.He preferred realism and daily themes.In figure paintings,he mostly expressed the daily life of the middle and lower class women.He was dedicated to describing the world he saw around him,rather than the Rococo fantasy.Therefore,his paintings are very unique compared with the Rococo art of the same era.Chardin is recognized as the greatest still life painter before Cezanne,and still life painting is his main theme,so people often neglect his many figure paintings with the theme of expressing the third level people.His figure paintings mostly show the peaceful scenes of family life,especially the women and children.They show the fine virtues of the ordinary French citizens,such as hard work,frugality and kindness.They guide the audience to look for moral values in the pictures and find the beauty of art in life.This coincides with Diderot's and other enlightenment thinkers' artistic ideas,so he became the most closely connected painter with the 18th century French Enlightenment.This topic takes the 18th century French realistic painter chardin's figure painting as the research object,through the research and analysis of the content,form and creative thought of his figure painting works,to explore the development of the French realistic movement led by Chardin under the influence of the enlightenment,as well as the influence of the creative techniques and ideological connotation on the development of oil painting art.Taking the characteristics of France in the 18th century as the starting point,and combining with the influence brought by the ideological movement of the enlightenment,this paper makes a certain analysis and Research on the multiple factors such as the life experience,artistic style and aesthetic taste of Chardin himself.Through the combination of art sociology,art psychology,iconology,history and other multi-disciplinary ways,it makes a comprehensive and systematic study The way of view discusses the background of the creation style of Chardin figure painting and the complex process of its artistic style evolution.From the choice of theme to analyze the spirit of the times behind the works,from the painting techniques to understand the aesthetic taste of Chardin,so as to understand the overall aesthetic influence and practical significance of Chardin's custom painting in today's world.