An Exploration Of Frank Auerbach’s Expressionist Painting

Frank Auerbach is one of the most influential British painters in the 20 th century.His works are unique in contemporary art with their unique painting language and profound artistic thoughts.He uses extreme forms of expression to present a primitive and real world to people,and touches the hearts of viewers with his strong deterrent.As a leading figure in contemporary British painting and a representative of easel painting,Auerbach has created a series of amazing oil paintings in his long artistic creation career.Auerbach has a firm belief in the inheritance of traditional painting art and a persistent pursuit of the spiritual connotation of expressionism in his works.To study Auerbach’s expressionist paintings,we need to place him in the long roll of European history,starting from his childhood experience,covering his schooling and creation experience,supplemented by the exploration of his painting language and artistic concepts,so as to explore the deep meaning and value contained in his paintings.Combing Auerbach’s life experience,we can find that his expressionist style is closely related to the special background of the 20 th century.At the same time,under the influence of the Second World War and the Western modern art trend in the 20 th century,Auerbach’s growth trajectory and personality characteristics also underwent subtle changes,which enabled him to have a unique perspective of objective world cognition and provided an important foundation for his future creation.At present,there is not much systematic and in-depth research on Auerbach’s expressionist painting art visual image.Therefore,it is necessary to analyze Auerbach from the perspectives of art,aesthetics and painting history,explore Auerbach’s artistic creation,and deeply analyze his artistic characteristics and value influence.Through the specific analysis of Auerbach’s painting career and works,we can clearly feel the expression of his unique creation style in painting techniques and its causes.These expressions are also one of the embodiment of rich thoughts and emotions contained in the picture,which has a certain value for the study of expressionist painting.Taking Auerbach’s expressionist paintings as the research object,we can get new expression techniques and inspiration of artistic thinking in contemporary art creation.Auerbach’s paintings will be studied from the following four aspects: First,from the personal experience,artistic path,social background of Auerbach’s influence on the formation of his expressionist painting style;Secondly,it analyzes Auerbach’s expressionist painting language from three aspects: picture expression,texture expression and color expression.The third analysis of Auerbach’s works presented in the art concept and ideological connotation;Finally,the author expounds the influence and enlightenment of Auerbach’s works on the development of contemporary art.The author hopes that the analysis of this paper can bring enlightenment to more scholars and artists.