Van Gogh, Picasso, Rembrandt ... Their secrets are hidden in selfies.

Throughout the history of art, self-portrait has always been a favorite theme of art masters.

Whether it's the Renaissance hundreds of years ago, modernism that breaks through traditional restrictions, or contemporary art with advanced concepts, artists will reserve "creative plots" for selfies.

From transcendental realism to absurd deconstruction, artists are trying their best to show their individuality and self in their eyes. In this seemingly "eye-catching" recording method, the artist's innermost secrets are often hidden, which may be the most real desire, pain, loneliness, or the desire for redemption.

It is not only a monologue that they have endured all their lives, but also a declaration that they are eager to be known by the world.

Under those unique aesthetic symbols, we can approach a more real soul, rather than the glory praised by the secular.

Today, we sorted out the selfies of the six most famous artists in history and enjoyed the moments they most wanted to be remembered.

This kind old man with a long white beard can be called Da Vinci.

Leonardo da Vinci was a genius scientist, inventor and painter in the European Renaissance. Modern scholars call him "the most perfect spokesman of the Renaissance" and he is a unique all-rounder in human history. His works in his life are few, but almost all of them are immortal masterpieces, such as Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and Our Lady in the Rock, which are unique in the world art history.

This self-portrait was created around 15 13, when Leonardo da Vinci was nearly 60 years old. Leonardo da vinci has always been famous for his superb sketching skills in painting, which is fully demonstrated in this self-portrait.

The whole painting is smooth and refined, with rich and varied lines, combining rigidity with softness, especially making good use of diagonal lines with different densities to show subtle changes in light and shade. The painter's long hair on his face and long beard under his jaw show us his thinking power, temperament and deep eyes full of wisdom in his later years.

Diu Lei is known as "the first person in the Northern Renaissance" and also known as "the father of self-portrait".

/kloc-when he was 0/3 years old, he drew his first self-portrait in front of the mirror, which was vivid and vivid. More than 20 years earlier than the above self-portrait of leonardo da vinci, it can be said that he is the first painter in the history of western painting to record his appearance in a realistic way.

The handsome guy in Diu Lei is a real "Song Yu, who looks like Pan An". At that time, someone described him like this:

Perhaps because he is too satisfied with his high value, Diu Lei always likes to express himself with his extraordinary painting skills.

Moreover, Diu Lei is not only keen on painting himself, but also often likes to write a sentence beside him: This is my face ~

The operation method is exactly the same as now we send a selfie in a circle of friends, and then write an article "I feel a little handsome today".

In this "self-portrait" (52× 4 1cm), Diu Lei dressed up as a handsome and lovely young knight, which was the most fashionable youth costume in Germany at that time. His long hair curled over his shoulders, and his sparse hazel beard made his face look mature and steady. In fact, he is still a young man in his prime, and the endless peaks outside the window in the background seem to imply his special experience of crossing the Alps and studying in Italy three times.

No wonder Diu Lei is so narcissistic. He was only 28 when he painted this picture. Judging from his modeling ability and color skills, his talent has begun to show signs.

Two years later, he painted a self-portrait of himself with leather, which completely caused a sensation in the painting world, because for the first time, he abandoned the tradition of facing the camera sideways and completely faced the audience.

Maybe some friends don't understand what the big deal is, but at that time, only God can appear as a positive composition image, and any artist who paints people has to turn around.

So at that time, some people thought that he painted Jesus, but Diu Lei said: Grandpa painted himself! ~

In addition, the most advanced painting theories that Diu Lei studied in Italy at that time, such as perspective and anatomy, were skillfully integrated into this painting.

In this painting, Diu Lei not only embodies the three-dimensional effect and light and shadow effect, but also carefully draws every tuft of fluff on his brown fur collar coat, so that people can fully feel its texture, including the right hand fiddling with the fur on the collar. Its observation is so close that even the vibration of the hand is drawn.

In the rest of his life, Diu Lei single-handedly integrated the original fragmented local painting school with the rigorous scientific spirit of the northern painting school and the beautiful and lofty classical aesthetics of the Italian Renaissance. He is the first master who combines the strengths of the North and South painting schools.

Rembrandt, half-rich and half-declining, created nearly 100 self-portraits in his life, which became the strictest portrait anatomy of himself in western art.

He began to record his appearance at the age of 23, and through a calm and objective method, he seemed to stare at the other self in the mirror and saw himself moving from youth to maturity, from maturity to decline, and from youthful exuberance to old age.

Rembrandt was born in 65438-0606 in a wealthy miller's family in the Netherlands. His family was well-off and brilliant. At the age of 25, he went to Amsterdam alone and became a portrait painter with constant orders. Before the age of 30, he realized a series of operations such as buying a big house and marrying a white man in the most expensive place in the city center, which was the real winner.

1642, 36-year-old Rembrandt ushered in the peak of his career, and he completed his masterpiece Night Patrol, which went down in history.

But fate will always strike you when you least expect it.

In the same year, his favorite wife died and their four children died one after another. This is undoubtedly a great blow to the painter's personal feelings.

However, when fate wants to play tricks on you, it never lacks tricks.

Night Patrol, which established Rembrandt's historical position, also made this successful professional painter fall into disrepute overnight. His works surpassed his own era, and those unconventional creative methods were unacceptable to people and mainstream painting circles at that time.

His art has become more profound and persistent, but his situation has gone from bad to worse. Everyone who once praised him turned his back on him, and Rembrandt went bankrupt.

Rembrandt, who entered the old age, could only live by constantly selling his family property and borrowing money, but when he recorded himself with a self-portrait, he made no secret of his poverty and ugliness. He is absolutely loyal to himself in the observation mirror. Those self-portraits he painted in his later years, wrinkled, looked at the world blankly and hesitantly, as if they were infinitely sentimental and merciful, which made painting no longer just superficial and pleasing to the eye, but also exposed profound human nature.

Rembrandt's later oil paintings, with thick texture, look like abstract color blocks and brush strokes at close range, but can accurately convey the inner spiritual characteristics.

The flashy Baroque Rembrandt got rid of the vanity of religion and court, but portrayed the phenomenon of life in the most heavy way, which contained full enthusiasm in simple calmness.

From absolutely accurate realistic skills to rich and hearty, he made painting innovative and subversive, and also made painting the final salvation of his tragic life.

Apart from leonardo da vinci, I'm afraid no artist in history can be as well-known as Van Gogh. He perfectly explained what a crazy talented artist is.

Van Gogh, like Rembrandt, is also famous for his self-portraits in the history of art.

However, Rembrandt's self-portraits run through his life, and most of Van Gogh's self-portraits were created between 1885 and 1889, with more than forty. He seems to "keep a diary" in the form of a self-portrait, exposing himself publicly to the audience, and putting the pain, fear, self-doubt, mental torture and fleeting happiness in life.

Van Gogh himself once said:

In his self-portraits, Van Gogh is often stiff and serious, with a focused expression on his face.

Nevertheless, Van Gogh's different personalities can be found in every self-portrait. He described his last self-portrait in Paris as:

This is how he felt at that time: exhausted.

1888 12.23, Van Gogh cut off his left ear when he was unconscious. This will be the first in a series of nervous breakdowns. He didn't want to discuss it in the letter, but he did "report" it in two selfies.

Van Gogh did not portray himself as a sick and broken man for the sake of effect or sympathy. He firmly believes that painting can help him heal. He wrote to Theo:

1890 In July, Van Gogh shot himself at the age of 37. His last self-portrait was a gift to his mother.

Monk, an expressionist artist from Norway, is often called "the end of the century" by art historians because his works reflect the spiritual life of a whole generation in Europe. In the age when monks lived, no art dared to describe the ugliness of human instinct so nakedly that good and evil coexisted and beauty and ugliness coexisted. He is called "Nietzsche in painting".

This miserable man lost his mother at the age of 5, his sister at the age of 14, and his mentally ill father at the age of 26. The only surviving sister was also tortured by mental illness and has been living in a mental hospital. Monk himself suffered from tuberculosis since he was a child and suffered from illness.

Therefore, death and disease have always been eternal themes in his works.

Monk was only 365,438+0 years old when he created this self-portrait of the skeleton arm, but he portrayed himself as a ghostly figure. Floating head is a common technique and theme in artistic expression in the early 20th century, which means the split between the material world and the spiritual world. The bone at the bottom of the photo is a memorial or reminder of death. Above the painting is the artist's name and date, and these details make it a tombstone.

He once said:

Picasso is the best example of "endless life"!

/kloc-debuted at the age of 0/3, and won all the highest awards and honors that traditional academics can get.

He is a restless ultimate explorer who refuses to stop running on the road of challenging himself. Besides, he is amazing in efficiency, long in life and full of energy. It seems that he has never touched fish in his life and has created nearly 37,000 works!

Starting from the rigorous and realistic academic school, Picasso's artistic career experienced a gloomy blue period, a romantic and beautiful pink period, a prosperous African period, a cubist period, a later surrealist period and an abstract period, and so on. I'm afraid no artist can beat Picasso in changing or even subverting his style and painting.

The changeable style has also been fully confirmed in his life-long self-portrait.

This self-portrait of Picasso 15 years old can clearly show his extraordinary traditional realism.

After all, his famous saying is:

The period from 1900 to 1903 was the low tide of Picasso's life. In this gloomy and dreary period, blue dominated all his works, so it became the "blue period" in his artistic career.

But soon, love came and Picasso settled in Paris. The encounter with the first love of life, Fernand Olivier, made Picasso sweep away the gloomy blue tone in his previous works and adopt the soft and warm pink tone of 180 degrees. Picasso officially bid farewell to the "blue period" and strode into the happy pink period.

This self-portrait of 1907 is the most classic, because it marks that Picasso gradually turned to cubism, the most important period in his life. From then on, Picasso's painting style began to "fly", deconstructing self-analysis layer by layer.

Picasso's works, like his life, have no unity, continuity and stability. He has no fixed ideas, is varied, is passionate or manic, is amiable or disgusting, is sincere or pretentious and unpredictable, but he is always loyal to freedom.

Carlo is one of the most representative and legendary artists in the 20th century and the first Mexican artist to settle in the Louvre.

6-year-old polio; 18 years old was involved in a car accident and suffered a comminuted fracture. 32 operations and 3 abortions; Married at the age of 22 and cheated on each other; Divorced at 32, remarried at 33, and died at 47.

This woman's life is fragmented but colorful. She recorded all the pains she suffered in her life: illness, disability, infertility caused by car accidents, abortion, divorce, betrayal ... in the form of self-portrait.

Of the 143 works in her life, 55 are self-portraits, which are unique and unforgettable. The iconic eyebrows and thin moustache on the lips make this androgynous face hard to erase from my mind.

From 65438 to 0939, Frida divorced her husband diego rivera. After separation, she was often immersed in despair and loneliness.

This famous "two Frida" was created at this time. In this painting, the sad woman depicts two sides of herself. On the right is the traditional Frida dressed in Mexican indigenous costumes, symbolizing the woman Rivera once loved. The aorta of her heart bypasses her right arm and connects to the portrait of Rivera in her hand, which is the source and nutrition of her life.

Frida in a European dress on the left is the woman Rivera no longer loves. She was pale, her heart was torn and her blood vessels were cut off. Even holding surgical forceps can't stop the blood from flowing out. Bright red blood dripped on the white skirt, as if she would bleed to death soon.

1940, Rivera asked Frida to remarry. One of Frida's most precious paintings, Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, came into being. This self-portrait is full of symbolic elements, and every detail clearly expresses Frida's pain and stubbornness.

In this painting, Frida sits in the middle and stares fearlessly at her audience. The thorn necklace around her neck pierced her body, bleeding profusely. A spider monkey sits on her right shoulder, playing with a necklace with thorns on her hand, but playing carelessly will make the thorns on Carol's neck deeper. There is a dead hummingbird hanging on the pendant of the necklace, and the panther on the left is eyeing it.

In Mexican folklore, hummingbirds represent good luck in love, while panthers symbolize bad luck and death.

Frieda used the dead hummingbird to express her despair of this marriage, and the spider monkey who touched the thorn necklace was a gift from Rivera. Now, every touch of it will leave Frida scarred and bleeding all over the floor.

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