How Did The European Painting Influence Western Illustration

The European painting influence on western contemporary illustration

According to archaeologists have found that the earliest human painting is about 2000 BC in the south of France cave painting of ?elder brother?. This is the original human painting, also can be said as the world?s premier illustration. For Fogg M. (2010),? Illustration is not only a medium of persuasive and compelling, According to these two famous illustrators, illustration is an effective and great tool to express feelings by using black-white or full-colure.? This essay has examined the European painting influences on the western contemporary illustration nowadays, with the glory history and thick continued in the tunnel of time and transformation.

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An European art history is the history of Christianity. in the 4th century, the Christian suffered about 300 years of persecution, then Constantine I admitted that Christianity was the official religion of the roman empire. Since then, countless religious painting was born, and produced plenty of masterpiece and master of art. Although today, religious painting is no longer the mainstream, but deeply religious impregnation of nearly 2000 years, western artists have religious faith materialized in the picture.

The second is love story. Love, eternal topic, it is ancient and modern painter's favorite subject. Western illustrations of romance is often known as the ancient Greek myth, using anecdotes of the past to allude to the present, painting is like magic, let a person them.

Third is fantasy genre. Crusades discovered the new world four times, not only robbed a lot of wealth, also brought endless inspiration to the artists, knight against the gentiles, and heroes fight battles of demons and imposing manner, extremely rich exotic. Now there are still much of painter?s former glories, and more will be deified, this kind of material can meet the heroic feelings deep inside of

Western civilization originated from ancient Greece and Rome in the Aegean civilization. Because of the geographical position, this kind of civilization has close relationship with the sea. But only from the perspective of painting paintings, the exploration in the subconscious to let them in the two-dimensional plane construct images at the same time more clinging to find dimensions of deep space. Starting around the 5th century BC, the ancient Greek sculpture "kerry Russian youthful" or "discobolus replica (ancient Rome) had to realistic performance of muscle, the greeks human performance method directly affect the Roman and all later western art development. Due to the huge influence of Greek Roman artist's painting, therefore, they are very interested in performance space, and can also draw some corridor, the pillars of the borders, this can create a virtual space on the