The Reading Girl is a painting created by fragonard, a French Rococo painter, in the 1980s, and was collected by Oscar Reinhardt of winterthur. In this portrait, the author gives full play to his brushwork sketch, boldly and rhythmically, with bright colors, which accurately describes the texture of clothing, thus forming a unique interest in oil painting language.
The girl sat sideways, graceful, elegant and quiet. The painter skillfully used yellow and white to distinguish between light and shade, and red to smudge the brilliance of the girl's cheeks. His masterpiece has a far-reaching influence on impressionist painting skills and can be called an important masterpiece in the history of painting. This portrait has been included by Pierre franca Starr, a famous French art historian, in the ranks of French oil painters in the19th century.
"Reading Girl" has different characteristics from those shown in his delicate and charming genre paintings, and freely displays his great brushstrokes. Therefore, it constitutes a unique interest in oil painting language. The girl sat sideways, graceful and quiet, and the lyrical expression of color was just right.
The dress is full of gold, which enhances the charm of the whole girl form, and the beauty of youth and visual pleasure are unified. There is neither the technique of spraying extremely delicate toner and drawing lines on it with a wide pen, nor the trace of whitewashing. Just like his painting "Swing", it relies on a thick pile of fine brushstrokes to render the aristocratic atmosphere of the environment.
The creative background of Reading Girl;
Fragona went to Rome as a royal scholar in 1756. After studying at the French Academy in Rome for two years, I traveled all over Italy, where I carefully studied Tiepolo's works, and then I became interested in Suleimena's decorative paintings in Naples.
Fragona's oil paintings were influenced by Boucher, but in terms of color expression, he became interested in Rembrandt's color during his study abroad. From 1775 to 1779, this influence can be seen in almost all his paintings. For example, in his painting "The Latch", Rembrandt used the light method very well.
It is known that he spent a long time studying Rembrandt's works in the art collection when traveling with Gronco in Germany and Austria. This interest in Dutch painting can also be seen from this portrait of a school girl.