As an art lover, what do you think of the artist's behavior of "breaking through the tradition"?

We say that innovation is the life of art, and breakthrough is the premise of innovation. The reason why art can go from ancient times to today with the process of human civilization lies in continuous breakthrough and innovation.

At all times and in all countries, there are countless examples of breaking through tradition and pioneering and innovating in the history of art. As an oil painting lover, there is an oil painting master who dares to break through and innovate, which makes me remember deeply. He is Peter Paul Rubens, the pioneer and important representative of baroque oil painting in the 17th century.

Peter Paul Rubens (1577— 1640) was born in Germany and became famous in the Netherlands. The greatest painter in the west in the seventeenth century. Rubens showed a rare talent for painting when he was a teenager. At the age of 65,438+02, he entered the teaching to study oil painting, and later traveled in Italy for six years, deeply influenced by the painting styles of Michelangelo, Caramacho and Titian. 2 1 year-old was appointed as the official painter by the government.

Rubens was intelligent and studious, and he developed skillful and exquisite oil painting techniques when he was young. He once copied the works of many predecessors in the Renaissance and carefully understood the true meaning of art from them. Rubens studied the ancient, not from the ancient. With diligence and wisdom, superb skills and courage, he dared to break through the tradition and blaze new trails. Based on the tradition of classical realism, he applied baroque art to oil painting, which had an important influence on western oil painting in the17th century and beyond.

Also, before Rubens, almost all the female images in oil paintings were elegant, exquisite and beautiful, such as Rita and Swan of Leonardo da Vinci, the Madonna of Raphael, three beautiful gods, the sleeping Venus of Giorgione, Love in Heaven and Love on Earth by Titian and so on. Different from previous painters, most of the female images painted by Rubens are tall, strong, broad and round, and even look almost "tough", which obviously violates people's traditional aesthetic habits and has been criticized and even ridiculed by people. However, more and more people gradually find that although the female images in Rubens' oil paintings are not beautiful and exquisite, they make people feel more grounded, more intimate and natural, more energetic, more visual impact and artistic appeal.

Rubens is called "the first artist who dares to eat crabs".