Why world famous paintings favor busts

World famous paintings favor busts, because it can better show the character's charm and inner emotion, but also can make the audience more engaged, produce more strong **** Ming.

What is a bust

Bust refers to a character in the picture presents only half of its body or the upper half of the painting. Busts have been widely used by artists in painting, sculpture and other forms.

Second, the advantages of bust

1, more expressive of the character's charisma and inner feelings, busts generally only present the character's face, arms, chest and other parts of the picture is more exposed to the gesture of the limbs, facial expression and its modeling, through the flexibility of the collocation of these elements, can be a better expression of the character's spirit and inner feelings. and inner feelings.

2, can better attract the attention of the audience, busts usually add some details in the picture, such as clothing, background, etc., so that the picture produces a stronger visual impact, thus arousing the audience for the characters hidden in the painting more curiosity and desire to explore.

3, more in line with the human visual pattern, human vision mainly depends on the central concave (fovea), which means that people usually pay attention to the elements near the center of the picture, and the focus of the elements in the bust is the face, arms and chest, etc., so it is more in line with people's visual habits.

4, can better show the character and personality, compared with the full-body portrait, bust is more able to highlight the focus, through the local characteristics of the emphasis, better show the character's personality and characteristics.

Three, the development of bust

1, bust from the ancient Greek period, prevalent in the 16th and 17th centuries, when most of the European portraits in the form of bust. Later, with the development of photographic technology, photographs became a more popular medium for portraits, and the art of painting gradually shifted to full-body portraits and scene paintings.

2. However, the bust has maintained its own unique charm and is widely used in modern art. For example, Picasso's "Me and My Father", Van Gogh's "Monica" and so on.

3. There are many representative works of busts in the history of painting, such as Monet's Untitled Portrait No. 1, which represents Impressionist portraiture, and Dickens's People of the Little Cross in the portraits of the bias of the early Victorian period.