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Balthus: The last great master of the 20th century!

2024-08-20

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A great painter who never learned to paint a day.


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Balthus,

A Polish-French painter, he was once praised by Picasso as "the greatest painter of the 20th century".

He is good at painting adolescent girls and cats, and there are also rumors that he has a pedophile complex.


Born in 1908 in a Polish aristocratic family in Paris, his father was an art historian. When he was a child, his home was often visited by famous figures in the Parisian art world, such as the Nabis painter Bonnard, the master Matisse, and the musician Stravinsky. Balthus was influenced by them from an early age.


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Theresa Dreaming, 1938


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Balthus never received formal art education, but directly experienced the essence of painting through self-study. He brought "stillness" back to painting. Balthus has an indisputable position in the history of world painting.


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The Girl at the Window, 1955

Balthus stayed away from the thoughts and fashions of the 20th century and spent his life pursuing an ideal model that transcended the times, so that his paintings were not marked by the mark of the times.


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Living Room, 1942


The Girl at the Window, 1957


"street"


Street, 1933


Golden Fruit, 1956


Solitaire, 1943


Dream, 1955


The Cat in the Mirror, 1990


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