Empress dowager cixi

In the 1904 years of st. Louis world expo, China's first official exhibitors, including exhibits by American female painter Catherine Carl (Cathleen Carl) rendering of the empress dowager cixi -. After the world expo, the portrait was presented the United States, the United States and the national museum collection. Finally, the empress dowager cixi even suggest, the portrait of the finish time must be in on April 19, 1904 before 4 o 'clock, because this is the reference LiBen after Modern pop art oil painting "ji". Ko girl had to listen to the queen mother "YiZhi", allowing in "ji" portrait completed before.

A palace many traditional custom also often let the American girl felt. Because there is no make big portrait need easel, ko girl will draw pattern, let house carpenter made special easel. However, when the researchers found the eunuch ke girl use palace made easel very appropriate, incredibly immediately another copy for five the same easel. "This is stem what?" Catherine Carl incomprehensible. The eunuch tell her, the queen mother made every thing is the same six.

Once, ko girl I wish the queen mother can handle position change, but when she said she can't do this. So ko girl can only use Chinese said they don't like her hand so put. "But I like so put." When she replied, she used a kind of ridiculous and surprised look female painter, deeply was surprised to hear that your favorite how can some people don't like. As a result, empress dowager cixi hand still "so" puts, ko girl also had to "so" began to draw. Thought can do a unique things, but ko girl soon found that they were established tradition and tightly lived. No longer work to be full of the first that kind of enthusiasm, American female painter feel headache repeatedly, inner resistance so fierce, she had to spend a lot of trouble to get down to, do some had to do.

After the old pose time little and then little, she also often be seized by a whim, at any time to replace jewelry or background Mediterranean landscape oil painting, therefore, ko girl had to time stretched out in these modification. Don't know the actual alternate with, when she always require the necessity to clothing on each a decorative pattern, each detail is clear clear chu to reflect on the canvas, Don't understand collocation of light and shade will bring stereo feeling, she proposed to surface can't draw a shadow, and there is only very little perspective; Don't clear the characteristics of oil painting, she ordered all the colors everything necessary daub average, until to lose Oil painting wholesale and vivid effect.

Follow when she for Classical oil painting portrait hobby is more and more strong, the portrait for pose, she often plaint, if can find a replacement for his posture, and to see how the portrait gradually forming. In the whole painting process, as a "model" when she is not fit, after the old idea idea decides everything, this makes painter Catherine Carl (when she called the "ko girl") creation was greatly limited, a lot time even at loose ends.