Jan van eyck, born in1380/90 ~1441year. Van Eyck is more famous than robert campin and has made greater contributions to the development of oil painting technology. Jan van eyck is known as the inventor of oil painting. Van Eyck and his brother Hubert Van Eyck (H, Van Eyck 1366- 1426) * * have completed many works together. One of the most famous is the Ghent altar painted for Ghent city church. Yang Van Ike ended the flat, dull and lack of space and light and shade painting style of Nederland, and began to boldly explore and improve the techniques of light and shadow, perspective and oil painting, showing his concern for real life in his works. He has made great contributions to portrait painting, genre painting and landscape painting, and opened up a new road for the development of Nederland painting.
The masters in Florence, Italy are all contemporary artists with Van Ike, and their painting techniques are very different from those of Dutch painters. Italians try their best to reproduce nature in painting by scientific means. When they draw the depth of space, they must first draw perspective lines and human bodies, and they must be proficient in human anatomy. However, there are many differences with the methods used by northern painters such as Van Eyck to reproduce nature. Van Eyck and his colleagues patiently described the details of one object after another until the whole picture reflected natural objects like a mirror to get a sense of reality. According to exquisite fabrics, shining jewels, elaborately drawn trees and grasslands and a lot of scenery, we can conclude that this painting is the work of a painter from the Netherlands. And that kind of painting with beautiful human body, proper proportion and correct perspective relationship comes from Italian painters. It can be said that this is also the respective painting characteristics of the two regions.
In order to describe objective things more accurately and truly, Van Eyck had to improve his painting skills. Before Van Eyck and throughout the Middle Ages, people used egg yolk to paint. This is temperance. Tampere is opaque, so it is difficult to draw the transition color accurately. For this reason, Van Eyck boldly improved the pigment blending agent, and used the seasoning liquid mixed with diluted oil (mainly linseed oil) instead of egg yolk to color, which made it easy to color and use strokes. In this way, you can draw layer by layer, drawing more carefully and accurately, and the picture becomes transparent and shiny. At that time, this kind of oil painting was mainly painted on wooden boards. This miraculous fine and transparent oil painting effect shocked Van Eyck's contemporaries. No wonder people call Van Eyck the inventor of oil painting. Accurately speaking, he should be an innovator of oil painting technology, because before him, someone had painted with oil as a blending agent.
In addition to completing the famous Ghent altar painting, Jan Van Eyck also painted the Madonna in the church, the Madonna of Van Del Barry and Margaret's portrait. His greatest artistic achievement is his portraits, the most famous of which is The Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Fini.
Pay attention to the details of the oil painting: The portraits of the Anofini couple use obvious perspective technology, and the mirror behind the characters has spherical distortion, which faithfully restores the reflective effect.
You know, it's the fourteenth century, and there is no ipone phone to take pictures! Even in modern times, many people are amazed at the distortion of wide-angle lens, let alone let people who don't understand express this perspective effect in painting.