But through this painting, we can't feel the charming posture of the naked woman at all, and it looks more like a mummy. Because the painter uses color blocks to decorate the morphological characteristics of the whole character, we can hardly see the rhythm of the lines, but what we feel is the change of brush strokes, not to mention the facial expression of the character. Because it has been completely blurred by the painter, we can only roughly know where the head, body and feet of the character are.
The woman in the painting is said to be Ponar's wife. Ponar's friends often make fun of Ponar and marry such a wife that bothers him, because his wife is not very beautiful, but Ponar respects his wife very much, and takes his wife as a model in many of his oil paintings, whether it is portrait painting or human oil painting Ponar.
Ponar's "The Naked Woman in the Bathtub" actually shows the warmth of him and his wife to outsiders, because it is an ambiguous scene, right? The painter depicts the morphological characteristics of his wife when she takes a bath, not to mention that the scene of this painting is indoor, not outdoor, which also shows the painter's feeling at home from a certain aspect. He is a family-oriented man and husband.
So is the theme of this painting the bathtub or the naked woman in the bathtub? This caused some controversy at that time. Some people think that the main body of this painting is the bathtub, because the painter painted the whole bathtub with most green tones and a little yellow tones, and the three-dimensional sense of the bathtub is also very distinct. Compared with this bathtub, the morphological characteristics of naked women are very single.
Except that the head is red and green, her limbs and whole body are flesh-colored, not smooth and delicate, but it looks very flat and has almost no three-dimensional sense in space, so some people think that the main body of this painting is a bathtub, not a naked woman in the bathtub. This statement is easy to understand. After all, the characteristics of the subject should be very distinct, right? But the background or setting-off scene should be relatively simple.
Although the naked woman in the bathtub looks single and flat in flesh color, from the picture of the whole painting, the single morphological characteristics of flat flesh color are more distinct, completely independent of the picture, that is to say, it is the center of interest of this painting. Oh, people can instantly see that there is such a naked woman in this painting, mainly because of the tone of other details in the whole painting.
Not the color of meat, but red, yellow, blue, purple, orange, green and so on. Are these obviously different from the color of meat? Moreover, such a complex tone looks dazzling, but the single color of meat makes people look more comfortable and easy to understand and distinguish; So from the color distribution of the whole painting, we know that the main body of this painting must be a naked woman lying in the bathtub.
Why does the painter paint his wife very abstractly? In fact, this is not because the painter's wife is ugly, but mainly because of the demand for style, because it is an abstract painting, and more importantly, the painter wants to show his color ability in this oil painting. We all know that oil painting is based on color. Although oil painting is based on sketch, the painter should show the color effect, not the sketch effect.
If it shows the effect of sketch, then the painting is not abstract, but realistic; Ponar released his feelings for his wife and the connotation of the whole picture through the value effect of color. This connotation is that art can show a magical world and space full of illusions. The colorful colors in the picture create a magical and illusory atmosphere, not a real atmosphere.
Ponar is a naked woman in the bathtub.
It is worth noting that we can see a brown puppy sitting on the carpet at the bottom of the painting. Then, he appeared very peaceful and clever in front of people. In fact, this is a symbol of the dog's loyalty to its owner. The dog itself is a symbol of loyalty, which means that Ponar and his wife have a pure marriage and pure feelings, and he is loyal to his wife.
Or his wife is loyal to him, because the appearance of this dog in the painting leads to more realistic elements in this abstract oil painting. What's more, this dog has not been seriously abstracted, but it still has some realistic characteristics. Between a dog and a naked woman, it is easy for people to recognize a brown dog, but the naked woman in the bathtub, people can't tell whether he is a man or a woman at once, so from people.
Let's pay a little attention to all parts of the room, such as walls and floors. We saw many spots on the floor and many colored squares on the wall. They are formed by the painter to set off the illusory atmosphere of the whole picture, so that we can see that the water in the bathtub is also green, and such colorful colors instantly give people a very romantic atmosphere.
So we can think that this is an abstract painting with romantic color. The romantic atmosphere of the whole bathroom makes it easy for every viewer to understand the intimate relationship between the painter and the naked woman. They are a romantic and warm couple, which also shows the harmony of human nature. But we can't see any perspective relationship in this painting, except that the painter highlights the three-dimensional sense of the whole picture with various colors, walls, floors, bathtubs and the color structure of a series of characters.
Or because of the three-dimensional sense created by color, we will feel the real existence of the woman in the painting. Although she appears in the form of color blocks and flesh tones, we can still feel her truth because we can feel her presence through the dog next to her. After all, the dog is alive.
If we don't pay attention to the living dog in the painting when we appreciate it, we can't feel its true meaning, and even think that it is just an abstract painting with no purpose and no meaning. The reason is very simple, because we can't see the facial expression of the master daughter, so we use the brown puppy around us to feel the real existence of the naked woman in the bathtub. Through the above simple description, this painting gives people a very mysterious and holistic feeling.