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A buoy and a sailboat with three men and a woman tip at an angle on rolling aquamarine and azure-blue waves in this horizontal painting. The white wooden boat sails away from us toward the right side of the composition. Its unfurled sail is tinged with taupe and pale blue and attached to a pale wooden mast. The boat has a low cabin with round portholes on the side we can see. Two of the men are shirtless, tanned, and have their backs to us. One sits in the cockpit wearing a white hat with a short brim as he holds the tiller. The other man stands on the deck with his arms crossed. Beyond the standing man, the woman lies along the roof of the cabin, her head at about the height of the man’s chest. She is barefoot and lies on her stomach wearing long, blue pants and a watermelon-pink halter top and matching kerchief covering her hair. The third man stands to her right, his slender body angled toward us while holding onto the mast with one hand and rigging with the other. The woman and third man have noticeably pale skin. A buoy near the boat is battleship-gray with streaks of rust along its base and a copper-green bell inside. It floats just to the left of and tips toward the boat on a rising swell. The scene is lit by bright sunlight coming from the left side of the baby-blue sky with bands of feathery clouds, which takes up the top two-thirds of the composition. The artist signed the lower right, “EDWARD HOPPER.”

Edward Hopper

Ground Swell, 1939

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G6

涌浪

霍普

蔚蓝的天空、沐浴在阳光下的船员,加上浪花起伏的海面,让这幅《涌浪》呈现出一种宁静的氛围;不过,画面的细节又会隐约让人感到些许不安。在空旷的海景中心,一个浮标吸引了小船上人们的注意。浮标的作用是在看不见的或紧迫的危险来临之前发出警报,因此它的出现是一个不祥之兆。蓝天中的卷云通常是风暴将至的预兆,让这种不安的印象变得更加强烈。

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SARAH CASH:

它的构图真的非常简单。有天空、海洋、帆船、人物和钟型浮标。

NARRATOR:

但这幅油画可能并非我们一开始看到它时所设想的那么平静、温和及美丽。莎拉·卡什 (Sarah Cash),美国和英国绘画副策展人。

SARAH CASH:

例如,帆船上的人物似乎彼此毫无瓜葛。对彼此漠不关心。每位船员都盯着钟型浮标看,表明他们非常担心,钟浮型标可能[04:48]给他们带来某种危险的感觉。在我们看来,蔚蓝天空中柔软如羽毛的白云美丽迷人,平静祥和,令人愉悦,但事实上,它们经常预示着风暴即将来临或天气瞬息万变。

NARRATOR:

翻滚的波涛亦是如此——这幅画作的名称就是“惊涛骇浪”。这里有什么隐藏的含义吗?霍珀 (Hopper) 在 1939 年创作这幅作品,是年飓风席卷新英格兰,所到之处满目疮痍,死伤无数——但这并非全部。

SARAH CASH:

从 1939 年 8 月到 1939 年 9 月 15 日期间,霍珀创作了油画《惊涛骇浪》(Ground Swell),恰恰是第二次世界大战的消息播出的时候。所以画面中的钟型浮标在这幅油画中具有双重含义是完全有可能的。它可能让我们想起危险的天气,但或许它至少以微妙的方式象征着第二次世界大战的到来。

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