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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres   La Source （1856）

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The nude woman in La Source, a 19th-century French neoclassical masterpiece by Ingres, is based on Nadar's photograph of the human body, Christine af Danmark. This approach simplified the process of painting and brought about a new language and style of creation.

They also hoped to change the way art was made. They also hoped to change the relationship between art and the public, and to reinvent the value and meaning of easel painting.

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Andy Warhol Portraits of Marilyn Monroe (1967)

 

Andy Warhol's portrait, Portraits of Marilyn Monroe, was selected from stills from the film Niagara. In this painting, Marilyn Monroe is a beautiful, sensual figure, and Andy Warhol has painted not only film stars, but also political figures, such as artist self-portraits and political figures.

stars, as well as political figures, such as artist self-portraits, cultural figures, and himself, have been created as portrait subjects in his work.

He uses the graphic material of the film and television media, which he reproduces, recreates and revitalises in a commercial overlay style to make the images more distinctive.

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Édouard Manet Olmpia (1863)

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Édouard Manet mobilises the classic works of the past in his creations, dismantling and reconstructing the energetic and referential meanings of the original works, and ultimately using them for his own purposes, releasing a whole new meaning.

Manet's Olmpia is a reference to Titian's Venus of Urbino, and by transforming many of the symbols in the original work, Manet has created a new meaning.

Manet criticised the pretensions of classicism by transforming the referential meanings of the many symbols in the original work.

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Glenn Brown

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He seeking a future for painting despite its historical baggage, he made illusionistic versions of the thickly painted works of Frank Auerbach and Karel Appel, rendering their layered impasto in smoothly detailed two-dimensional brushstrokes.

 

Brown sources images from the internet, books, and other printed materials, distorting and manipulating them. In the 1990s he created several paintings based on science fiction novels drawing inspiration from sci-fi illustrations of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the apocalyptic scenes created by painter and illustrator John Martin. In these works Brown combined panoramic and close-up views, a technique he would later apply to depictions of the body and flesh, alluding to works by Salvador Dalí, Willem de Kooning, Chaim Soutine, and others.

As a complement to his painting practice, he creates sculptures by accumulating thick layers of oil paint over structures or found bronze casts. Brown has also produced detailed drawings in which he further explores the uncanny juxtapositions seen in his paintings. Since 2013 he has increased his engagement with drawing’s tactility, using different types of lines, shadings, and strokes in order to reinterpret the age-old tradition of copying historical subjects as a learning tool. His drawings reinforce the importance of gesture, echoing the layered lines of Old Master sketches.

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Neo Rauch

 

After 1990, Rauch gradually abandoned the abstract style of expression and turned to figurative and narrative painting, using abstract, cartoon, monster, military, pop and other elements as tools to balance the picture. 

 

elements such as abstraction, cartoon, monster, military, and pop as tools to balance the picture. In Rauch's works, the image is always in a state of fluidity and transformation. The identities of the characters in the images do not fit the environments in which they are placed, showing a kind of mix and match style. By constantly combining the originally unrelated images in the picture through artistic imagination, he changes or adds to the original meaning, creating a patchwork of artistic creation that does not belong to their original field in the picture. In his works, Rauch has multiple images superimposed on each other, trying to build up a narrative in the midst of the chaos, following such techniques of Picasso and even the classical masters, and once again, disordered images of different textures, proportions, times and places can co-exist in an orderly manner in his powerful imagination and modelling ability.

 

He said, "I try to avoid hierarchies and deliberate evaluations of images; in my opinion, Balthus, Vermeer, Tintin, Donald Judd, 

Balthus, Vermeer, Tintin, Donald Judd, Donald Duck, political propaganda posters, and cheap rubbish adverts can all be my inspiration." (Rauch et al., 2010)

 

Rauch, N., Schmidt, H.-W. and Schwenk, B. (2010) Neo Rauch: Paintings. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz.

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Phobe Unwin

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In her latest work Snow City, it can be seen that she has superimposed a lot of abstract elements on top of the figurative objects, and any one of the colours seems to have been repeated and overpainted. In the middle of the top of the picture, you can see layers of small dots that look very similar from a distance, but when you look closer, you can see different colour shifts in the original colours underneath the layers of white "fog".

In the overall picture, she creates lines through the dots of different shades, which look like dots connected to lines in the picture.

 

What her other works look like:

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Her other works, which can be seen in her solo exhibition The Pointed Finger at the Amanda Wilkinson Gallery in London in 2023, use brighter colours paired with grey, which she renders and superimposes in thin layers of oil paint so that there are no clear edges or focal points in the picture. Through the interaction of bright colours and hazy forms, she uses light layers of colours to bring out and clash colour blocks at different levels. At the same time, I also think that the reason why her images can present a more advanced sense of image is that she does not use contrasting colours too much; all that appears in her images are greys with different colour tendencies on the same tone. This approach makes her images feel very advanced.

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