Realistic Exploration of Watercolor Paintings

DOI

10.2991/snce-18.2018.212How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ontology; Realism; Expressionism; Contingency

Abstract

The painting has undergone a long-term development process. The status quo of art in every age fully demonstrates that "truth seeking" has almost become the artist's pursuit of instinct, and there are many artists in the history of art who work tirelessly for "truth-seeking". They are the truth seeker of themself and also the seeker of truth under the appearance of this world. This article is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, it mainly describes various artistic affinities in art history with the argument of "function theory" of art, which is similar to aesthetic and ugly appreciation, emotion and logic, naturalism and abstractionism, form and content. These disputes are like the general tributary of a huge river, rich but not divorced from the pursuit of truth and essence from different aspects. In the second chapter, it further discusses the "truth seeking" from the choice of theme and painting style by taking the watercolor works of Andrew Wyeth and Marlene Dumas as examples respectively. The third chapter summarizes the above two chapters. No matter from which point of view, "truth seeking" is not only a sincere attitude of creation or a true reflection of objective things, it is honesty to painters, viewers and paintings.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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