I remember the first time I saw Paul Emile Chabas's work was this Portrait of Two Young Women.
I have seen a lot of women in reality who are hot and hot, and I feel that the women in the painting are so gentle and quiet. It is supposed to be an autumn dusk, and the painter sees two women sitting on a park bench in the park, with a calm lake in the background, the afterglow of the setting sun shining on them through the leaves, and the white dress showing a pearl-like luster, and the beautiful dusk more than 100 years ago is forever frozen.
Paul Emile Chambas, a French impressionist painter, was born in 1869 to an enlightened lawyer who supported his son's hobby in painting and encouraged him to pursue further studies in Paris.
Chabas was admitted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, and soon made a name for himself in Paris, where his highly personal style of painting was formed early on and remained unchanged throughout his life.
Artists have delicate emotions, especially Impressionist painters, who need to accurately capture the momentary changes of light and shadow. Specializing in portraits and illustrations, Chabas places people in their natural surroundings and uses the principles of light and color to create a sense of serenity and harmony.
Chabas is good at expressing the thoroughness of water, the water surface under the sun is rippling, under the reflection of the water, the characters on the picture also appear fresh and smart, there is a tender water-like beauty, as if entering a fairy tale world.
Painting real people as fairies as if they don't eat the fireworks of the world, his portraits are very popular. And the characters in myths and legends show a kind of earthly fireworks, which does not seem to be so mysterious and distant.
"Bathing" is a classic theme of Western painting art, and Chabas has also created a number of works with the theme of bathing, including the mythical and legendary "Siren", as well as the real "Girl in the Port" and "After the Sun and Rain" and so on.
Chambas was a professor at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris for a long time until his death in 1937.