Hobema (1638.5438+00 ~1709.338+02) is a famous landscape painter in the Netherlands. As a student of Ruisdale, it goes without saying that he was influenced by his master in technique, but his artistic style was not the same in the end, and he was not as prolific as Ruisdale. Generally speaking, Ruisdale's landscape paintings tend to be melancholy and sad, while Hobbema's paintings are clearer and simpler, and full of more cheerful atmosphere. This is mainly because the former mostly depicts barren hills and swamps, silver-gray sky and vast plains; And every painting of the latter, like pastoral poetry, has an elegant earthy flavor. The tranquility of the countryside is fascinating and intoxicating. In particular, this "path between trees" (also known as "Midhasness path") is more elaborate in this respect and is also the most praised by people.

This "Forest Trail", which has become a classic landscape painting, depicts a very ordinary muddy village road with many ruts of different shades printed on it, and thin and tall trees lined up on both sides, which are uneven, symmetrical and changeable. At the other end of the path, a villager stood with an animal. At a fork in the road on the right, there are two rural women walking and chatting. The close shot on the right is a plantation, and a peasant woman is pruning branches. The lower the horizon is, the more places are left in the sky, and painters have more possibilities to describe the beautiful sky of Xia Wei steamed by clouds. Why does such a seemingly unremarkable picture have such great artistic charm?

Any good landscape painting is always a blend of emotion and scenery. Hobbema is an idyllic landscape painter with strong feelings for his hometown. Although he didn't have many works in his life, he made on-the-spot observation on each painting and seriously realized the beauty and poetry of nature. The path in the forest shows a beautiful rural scenery. The painter reproduces this pastoral scenery with a strong sense of perspective in the language of poetry, giving the viewer a comfortable aesthetic feeling. Farsightedness makes people feel relaxed and happy. The sides are so symmetrical that they look stable. The subtle, rhythmic, diverse and unified details, like the notes with slightly changed jumping strength on the piano, are not dull at all. On the contrary, they look relaxed and happy. You see, rows of branches are strewn at random, close-up dark trees and planting forests alternate with each other, in the distance, on the left is the spire of a church, and on the right are two tall huts, both of which are carefully conceived by the painter. The rigorous perspective of Vanishing Point takes the audience's mood far away.

Because this painting successfully shows the technique of focus perspective, it has always been a classic demonstration work in the teaching of art techniques. The diversity of Dutch painting themes, like a mirror, reflects the richness of Dutch social life. In landscape painting, these two masters-Ruizdal and Hobbema-showed us the natural richness of the Dutch countryside. This picture was painted on 1689, and its size is about103x141cm. Now in the National Gallery of London, England.

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