The watercolor painting "A bunch of primroses" is written by Diu Lei.

Introduction to A Bunch of Primrose:

One day in the early summer of p>1492, Diu Lei, a German copperprinter, had a whim. He didn't use color oil to adjust the thin oily color on the sketch as usual to complete an oil painting.

Instead, the color powder is mixed with materials such as gum Arabic, honey and glycerin in an ingenious way, and water is used as a blending agent for painting, which has achieved unexpected results: this water-based material is not only transparent in color, but also greatly shortens the production process. In this way, the first true watercolor painting "A bunch of primroses" was born.

This is the earliest watercolor painting with strong artistic connotation in the West. This unique artistic effect greatly inspired Diu Lei. Many watercolors he painted are still widely praised and become the recognized originator of this kind of painting.

Even from today's point of view, works such as Little Hare and Alpine Scenery, which are collected by Britain and Ashmoline Museum in Oxford, have excellent expressive ability and production skills.

Perhaps in this process, contemporary painters also used the same materials to practice watercolor painting, but they were not recorded by future generations because they did not have a great influence.

Diu Lei is outstanding in talent. Although watercolor painting is only a fragment in his artistic creation, it occupies an incomparable important position in the history of watercolor painting, because the artistry and technical integrity of his watercolor works have reached a considerable height.

Introduction to Diu Lei:

AlbrechtDürer (1471 -1528), born in Nuremberg, is a German painter, printmaker and woodcut designer.

Diu Lei's works include woodcut prints and other prints, oil paintings, sketches and sketches. Among his works, printmaking is the most influential. He is one of the best woodcut and copperplate artists. His watercolor landscape painting is one of his greatest achievements, and the atmosphere and emotion of these works are extremely vivid.

The main works are Revelation, The Great Disaster of Christ, Minor Suffering, The Hand of Prayer, Men's Bathroom, The Sea Monster, The Wanderer, The Great Destiny, Adam and Eve, Knight, Death and the Devil, etc.

Biography:

The Germans used the paper revolution to introduce movable type, but the Italians used their artistic talent and luxury goods to catch up and regain the dominant position. How lucky Diu Lei is to be able to display his talents.

When he was a teenager, he studied with his father. He showed a special talent for painting. At the age of 13, he was able to paint his portrait realistically. At the age of 19, the portrait he painted for his father fully showed his mature sketching skills, which can echo Leonardo da Vinci from a distance. Later, I worked in the painter MichaaeelWolgemut for three years.

Vogmut's big workshop also makes woodcut illustrations for Diu Lei's godfather, printer and publisher AntonKoberger. At that time, this largest factory had a great influence on Diu Lei. He first came into contact with copper skills in his childhood, and this enduring impression played a decisive role in his later creative printmaking.

After completing the course, the young painter walked out of the studio and traveled along the Rhine River to major industrial cities in Germany, visited Frankfurt and visited Cologne and Basel. The four-year study tour has played a decisive role in the formation of the painter's world outlook and artistic development.

23-year-old Diu Lei is an influential artist. During this year, he married the daughter of a musician in his hometown, Agresa Flaughey. Since then, Diu Lei has started to work independently as a jeweler and painter.

In p>1485, German education was on the eve of the upcoming reform under the influence of humanism, and Diu Lei entered a public primary school in Nuremberg. According to the tradition of his family, the father apprenticed his son in his own workshop and wanted to train him as a jewelry worker.

Diu Lei got the painting training for the first time in the workshop, and soon became proficient in it, which became the basis of his artistic activities. Diu Lei entered Diu Lei's works in order to learn the decorative arts necessary for jewelry craft? One step began to copy the artist's figure paintings, and also copied the sculptures of Martin Sannguer, which created conditions for him to be an artist.

At the age of thirteen, Diu Lei carved his first self-portrait with a silver needle and wrote: "When I was a child in 1484, I drew myself in the mirror." His second year's pen-and-ink painting "The Virgin Mary and Angel on the Throne" is one of the second earliest works, which has been preserved to this day.