Why is it that most of the western oil paintings have women as the subject and theme?

It is not difficult for those who like oil paintings to realize that in a large number of western oil paintings, including many classic oil paintings, more than 80% of them have women as the subject and theme. For example, "Mona Lisa", "Virgin Mary", "Mei Hui San Mei God", "Sleeping Venus", "heavenly love and worldly love", "earth and water", "Venus in front of the mirror", "spring", "the coming of spring", "Goddess Athena" and so on. Many people wonder why this phenomenon occurs in Western oil paintings. I analyzed the reasons, summarized in these points:

One, Western art has a tradition of female subjects

Western art has a tradition of female subjects. As early as 2500 years ago, the ancient Greek and Roman period, the West has worship of women to worship the custom of reproduction, then most of the myths and legends reflect the female subjects, such as the goddess Venus, goddess Athena, the three gods and so on, the ancient Greek and Roman sculpture is also the majority of works with female subjects. From the beginning of Ancient Greece, later generations followed, forming a tradition.

Two, the female form and appearance can highlight the characteristics of human beauty

Discovering the beauty of shaping the beauty of the performance of the beauty of the basic functions and essential features of art. 15 century after the success of the development of Western oil painting, painters in the creative practice, found that women's dignified appearance, concave and convex rich rhythmic body curves, soft and delicate skin, as well as a head of hair, etc., highlight the characteristics of the human beauty, especially in the figurative modeling, the female form, the female form, the female form, the female form, the female form, the female form, the female form, the female form and the female form. Characteristics, especially with the figurative modeling of realistic oil painting art form, more women's beauty can be expressed to the fullest extent. This kind of beauty is irreplaceable and incomparable to other beauty.

Three, women's movement and expression can fully express the theme of oil painting and thought and emotion

Women are not only in the physical appearance of human beauty, but also in the expression of movement is also a variety of colorful. People often use "flavorful", "gentle and sexy", "charming and enchanting", "graceful", "eyes with autumn waves", "delicate" and other beautiful words to describe the rich and varied expression of women's movements, which are more conducive to the painter in the creation of works of art to express the connotation of the theme and the ideological and emotional. For example, Renaissance oil paintings, with women as the main subject and theme, to express the desire of human nature, to express people's beautiful vision and human thought and emotion.

Fourth, women's oil paintings are loved by more people

Women's oil paintings are loved by more people because they are more elegant and beautiful. Not only do men like female paintings, women also like female paintings. Such as France in the 19th century, many of the female subject oil paintings are the noble lady lady customized. Angell's "big courtesan" is Napoleon's sister Princess Caroline of Naples agreed, "Mrs. Riviere portrait" is Mrs. Riviere's own custom. And so on. There is no painter does not want their works can be more people like, female subject oil painting a wide range of social basis prompted the painters happy to compete for the creation of women's subject oil painting.

Fifth, women's oil paintings are more marketable

From the beginning of oil painting, women's oil paintings have shown its market competitiveness and market share. For example, a large number of Renaissance oil paintings with female subjects were customized by buyers looking for painters beforehand, and many of them were customized by the Medici family, which was a rich family at that time. With the maturity of the Western painting market mechanism, the female subject oil paintings are also more and more market. Profit-driven is also an important reason why most of the western oil paintings have women as the subject and theme.