The Environment Analysis of Caravaggio in Kyle's World (painter 1)

In the fourth episode of Kyle's World, there is such a description: "Once Kyle took spring to play billiards. He told her that his favorite player was O 'Sullivan. When he saw a question mark in spring, Kyle explained, "An inappropriate example is like Caravaggio in painting."

Michelangelo merisi da caravaggio (Italian: Michelangelo Meris da Caravaggio,1571September 29-161July 0/8), Italian painter, 1593 turn. He is usually considered to belong to the Baroque School and has an important influence on the formation of the Baroque School.

When Caravaggio first arrived in Rome, he was "naked, extremely poor … homeless, short of food and clothing … penniless." A few months later, he began to work as a gunman for Giuseppe Cesari (Pope Clemente VIII's favorite painter), painting flowers and fruits in a studio that looked like a factory building.

Caravaggio's well-known works during this period include The Boy Peeling Fruits on a Small Scale (the earliest known painting), The Boy with a Fruit Basket and The Sick Young Bacchus, and a self-portrait he painted during his recovery from a serious illness. After his illness, Caravaggio was no longer employed in Cesare.

All three works show physical accuracy (Caravaggio's realistic side), and he began to become famous. A professor of horticulture once analyzed that the fruit in the hand of a boy with a fruit basket can be used to determine the cultivated varieties. "There is obviously a burning spot caused by fungi on a large fig leaf, which is very similar to plant anthracnose."

Realism has a psychological side: holding a heavy basket, the boy is obviously a little bored, but at the same time he feels funny, so he obeys; His bare shoulders were treated very sexy by the painter, which is obviously how the painter feels about his model; But although the boy was friendly, he didn't respond to the painter's feelings.

Within two years, Caravaggio decided to go his own way, and he left Cesare. His life reached the lowest point, but it was at this time that he formed very important friendships with several people, namely, the painter Prospero orsi, the architect Huo Norio Longji and the Sicilian artist Mario Miniti, aged 65,438+06.

Orsi, who has gained a firm foothold in painting, introduced Caravaggio to influential collectors. Longji brought him desperately into the fighting world on the streets of Rome; Mini became his most frequent model and partner.

Fortune teller is Caravaggio's first painting with more than one character, in which Mario is cheated by a gypsy woman. This theme is very novel in Rome and has had a great influence for more than a century. At that time, however, Caravaggio sold it for almost no money. Then I drew another one.

"The Old Card Liar" and "Gambling" show another unsophisticated boy falling into the trap of a card liar, which is more complicated psychologically, and may be Caravaggio's first real masterpiece. Like fortune tellers, card scammers are very popular, with more than 50 copies.

More importantly, it attracted the patronage of Cardinal grimaldi Delmonte. Grimaldi Delmonte is an important connoisseur in Rome. From then on, Caravaggio can share a room with Minity in Cardinal Madmar Palace.

Caravaggio has created many private indoor works for Delmonte and his rich circle of art lovers-musician, lute, Bacchus, the symbolic and realistic work "Boy Bitten by Lizard"-with Minity and more boys as models. These poetic, introverted and mysterious homosexual works are very close to the psychological realism that began a few years ago.

With the completion of Caravaggio's first religious painting, realism returned and extraordinary spirituality appeared. This is the repentant Maria Magdalene, depicting such a moment-Maria Magdalene is no longer the senior X-girl, she sits on the ground crying, and jewels are scattered around. "It's not like a religious painting at all ... where is the guarantee of a girl sitting on a low wooden stool and drying her hair ... repentance ... pain ... atonement?" This is the simplicity of Lombardy style, not the drama of Roman style at that time.

Caravaggio continued this style in several other works, such as Mary of Saint Catherine, Martha and Magdalene, Jude's Water Drops and the Head Cut off from Holoforny, Sacrifice for Sacrifice, assisi San Francesco in a Happy State and Rest on the Way to Egypt. These works were exhibited in a limited circle, which increased Caravaggio's reputation among connoisseurs and peers. However, the real prestige still depends on the public sphere, so we should turn our attention to the church.

Caravaggio's most admirable thing is the use of light, that is, the contrast between light and shade. "In fact, painters used the contrast between light and shade a long time ago, but Caravaggio really established this technique, which deepened the dark part and pierced the object with dazzling light.

Therefore, the observation of physical truth and psychological truth became the reason why he gained great prestige, and also the reason why he often failed to meet the requirements of religious entrustment. Caravaggio painted quickly. Looking at the model, he paddled directly on the canvas with a brush handle, and it became a manuscript.

In his time, professional painters hated this method, and they accused him of refusing to write the manuscript first and not beautifying the characters in his works. Model is the basis of Caravaggio's realism. What is certain now is that some of Caravaggio's models, including Mario Minitti and Francisco Bernali, are painters who follow him.

Mario appeared in various characters in early secular paintings, and young Francisco appeared in a series of angels in later oil paintings. Caravaggio's female models are Ferretti May Landroni, Anna Biancini and Maddalena Antonette. They are all famous and highly skilled women, who are painted as female religious figures, including the Virgin Mary and saints.

Caravaggio himself appeared in the painting several times, and his last self-portrait was a witness standing on the right when Saint ursula was martyred.

Caravaggio has a remarkable talent. He can show the process of important events with very vivid scenes.

1599 probably through the influence of Delmonte, Caravaggio got the contract to decorate the Cantarelli auditorium in St. Louis. This commission includes two works, The Martyrdom of St. Matthew and The Call of St. Matthew, which caused a sensation immediately after the completion of 1600.

Other works include the very touching Burying of Christ, Our Lady of loretto, Our Lady, El Nino and Saint Anne, and The Death of Our Lady. The story of Death of the Virgin can be used as an example to illustrate how Caravaggio treated some of his works in his time.

160 1 year, a rich judge commissioned Caravaggio to paint his private church, which is located in the church of Notre Dame de Stair in Murrow, New Gal. In 1606, Gail Murrow will reject the painting. (If you refuse, search yourself, and you will definitely be locked. But refusing to do so does not mean Caravaggio and his followers are out of favor.

After being taken out of the church, Death of the Virgin Mary was immediately bought by the Duke of mantua at the suggestion of Rubens, and then bought by King Charles I of England, and was collected by the French royal family in 167 1 year.

Caravaggio was famous for a while before his death, but he was completely forgotten for centuries after his death and was rediscovered in recent decades in the 20th century. He influenced almost all artistic styles after the decline of stylism, especially the emerging baroque art. Andre Bain-Jovrois commented: "Caravaggio's painting style inspired modern painting." The birth of baroque.

I won't say much about Caravaggio's life. In short, he is a savage.

Ok, that's all for today. See you tomorrow.