東北是個好地方---費城看梵高特展有感
文章來源: 泥巴2012-02-06 11:07:46

說東北是個好地方主要是想到這裏有這麽多的博物館,劇院可以看可以聽。

有親戚病了,要做手術,便跑來費城照顧她,一個星期了,總算有個break,便跑去費城藝術館,本來每個月的第一個星期日都free的,可是因想看不免費的梵高up close畫展,還是要交$25塊的。人很多,早晨去的晚了些,結果站排站了好長時間,直到快十二點了才開始真正看到畫。我看東西慢,隻看了兩個館,一個是梵高特展,一個是亞洲館,結果亞洲館還沒有看完,就已經五點多了

梵高隻活了37歲,也隻畫了十年畫。這個特展是他生命裏最後四年裏畫的畫。

因了一輩子畫畫的哥哥
我小時候就看梵高的畫冊,且讀過他的傳記---“渴望生活”,非常好的一本傳記,還記得看到結尾時哭了,也曾經在網上為他的畫跟人爭論過。。。喜歡痛苦的人講從梵高的向日葵裏能看出痛苦。。。可是我就覺得是陽光,生命中一種張力,伸展的感覺。

昨天在畫展的時候聽audio,裏邊的一段話讓我想起那場爭論,也是我看他畫的感覺,特地的多聽了兩遍,回家在網上查到了這段話:

http://www.wayofvincent.com/blog/2007/09/my-revenge.html


“Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh, from Arles, 16 September 1888

My dear sister, it is my belief that it is actually one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

The more ugly, old, mean, ill, poor I get, the more I want to take my revenge by producing a brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent. ”


我自己不會畫畫,隻是小時候受哥哥的影響,很喜歡看畫,也喜歡亂塗亂畫。我覺得畫無所謂懂與不懂,這裏隻紀錄我喜歡的。。。我喜歡凡高畫裏的動感,近看有些碎有些亂,但遠看好像有種韻律感,有種流動有種伸展的感覺

我喜歡他畫裏的明藍明黃,下麵是這次畫展時看到的幾幅我喜歡的作品,給自己做個紀錄:

1。sunflowers (1887)
這個並不是大家經常看到的那種,背景的藍色非常striking:


2。Field with wheat stacks (1890)
之所以選網上這張照片,主要是因為筆觸可以看得很清楚。
並不是很喜歡這張原畫,但很有梵高畫的特點。這張那些細碎的筆觸其實很亂的,但連在一起就有種動感


3。 Sheaves of wheat (1890)
之所以選網上這張照片,主要是因為紫色,在別的照片裏看不出來,其實梵高喜歡紫色,覺得紫色有種日本的意味。下麵這張看原畫的色彩要淡一些,色彩並沒有下麵照片這樣燦爛,
但就是在介紹這幅畫時,audio裏說到了有關於梵高畫畫時對nature的“a brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent”的想法,audio裏還講到這畫full of energy及rhythem,好像在ball room,well arranged的稻草好似couple們在跳舞(大概意思):


4。"The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy)", 1889
這張是我最喜歡之一,照片的顏色還是黯淡了些,original的畫顏色非常明亮,大樹顯得很有張力,生命力:


5。Undergrowth with two figures (1890)
這張我也很喜歡,離近了看很雜亂無張,但整體看林下的花草就顯得很亮,很爛漫:


6。Grapes, lemons, pears, and apples (1887)
這張的original比這個色彩還強烈些,覺得更好,也是這次畫展裏我喜歡的其中之一,很細碎的筆觸,但顯得很systematically那種流動,色彩及光都很明亮的感覺


7。Still life with pears (1888),但在展廳的名字叫Quinces, 1888/89
這張照片的藍背景遠沒有真畫那麽vivid,原畫的藍布背景是很美很有光感的blue


8。Almond Blossom (1890)
這是梵高給與他同名的侄子出生時畫的,顯示他受到日本畫的影響(展廳裏有梵高跟他弟弟Theo收集的日本畫print)。兩兄弟共收集了將近500幅日本畫prints。我不是很喜歡這幅畫,但因為與東方有些關係,且放在這裏



這次畫展還提到梵高不喜歡相片,但畫展裏講,他的畫可能吸收了當時著名風光攝影師的構圖

最後這是我很喜歡的一首有關梵高的歌,也是我喜歡的歌手唱的:

Vincent Van Gogh Starry Starry Night - Julio Iglesias

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoXO6cmC-OU

這是很美的歌詞:

Starry, starry night

Paint your palette blue and grey,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
In colors on the snowy linen land.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry, starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.


Starry, starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless heads on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in ragged clothes,
The silver thorn of bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.


Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will...