巴尔蒂斯是20世纪法国最卓越的具象绘画大师之一。他受到家庭的艺术熏陶,自小在美术馆临摹研习传统古典绘画作品,因此,传统绘画作品对其艺术学习生涯而言意义非常。巴氏的早期绘画充满了对于古典绘画的仰慕与传承。这种情怀在他的作品《玛莉》中就能得以充分的显现。在这件作品中,巴尔蒂斯将人物的额头塑造的异常饱满,形同雕刻的发髻与明暗交错的衣纹刻画的具体而生动, Balthus was one of the most prominent figurative painters in France in the twentieth century. Influenced by his family’s art, he copied and studied traditional classical paintings in art galleries. As a result, traditional paintings are of great significance to his artistic learning career. Papa’s early paintings are full of admiration and inheritance of classical paintings. This feeling in his work “Mary” will be able to fully show. In this work, Balthus will be the character of the forehead full of unusual shape, the same with the engraving of the bun and the light and dark interweaving patterns depicting the concrete and vivid,