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Two nude women, painted in vibrant coral peach and bubblegum pink, stand under a red umbrella in a landscape in this stylized, vertical painting. The scene is painted with areas of flat or streaked color with visible brushstrokes throughout. The women and umbrella take up most of the picture. The woman on our left stands facing our right almost in profile. Her skin is vivid peach. Slashes of red outline her breasts, groin, and legs. Her hair, eyes, and eyebrows are painted with black strokes. She stands on one leg and stretches the other in front of her to overlap the far foot of the other woman. The first woman hooks her arm through the elbow of the other, who stands facing us to our right. This second woman has vivid pink skin also outlined in red. Her face is a darker shade of pink, resembling a mask, and her eyes are parallel strokes of black and blue. Her left arm, on our right, hangs by her side, and she holds the umbrella with the other arm. She either wears a hat or her hair is painted with alternating bands of black, red, and brown, and there is a red flower or bow to one side. Black lines in the candy-red umbrella suggest a rib on the underside and the handle. Cobalt-blue branches of a tree above the women has blue and green leaves. The landscape beyond them is made up of bands of acid green, yellow, saturated blue, and cool green.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Two Girls under an Umbrella, 1910

East Building, Mezzanine — Gallery 217-A

恩斯特·路德维希·凯尔希纳创作这幅画作时还在职业生涯的早期阶段,当时他是表现主义团体“桥”画社的创办人之一,该团体于 1905 年在德累斯顿创立。在这幅作品中,凯尔希纳描绘了处于自然环境而不是艺术工作室矫饰空间中的两个裸体女性。这幅画作也是作者运用大胆甚至粗放的形态和鲜亮颜色进行创作的一幅代表作品。

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HARRY COOPER:

两个女人出门闲逛……但她们在做什么?[laughs]她们为什么裸露着身体?

NARRATOR:

恩斯特·路德维格·基尔希纳 (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner) 描绘这些女人的肖像画是被称为德国表现主义的风格的典范,这种风格是由基尔希纳在二十世纪初期与另外几位艺术家共同创立的。这些艺术家在他们的画布上使用大开大阖的笔触,并以高调的色彩描绘通常扭曲变形的人物。基尔希纳和他的艺术圈子诞生在一个正在急速变化的世界中:工业化、战争的威胁和种种社会弊病。他们深受德累斯顿和柏林等城市吸引,但也拥抱原始文化和回归自然。

现代艺术策展人和负责人哈里·库珀引用基尔希纳对这种全新手法所发表的见解。

HARRY COOPER:

基尔希纳说:“我们肩负着未来,希望为我们自己创造生活和行动自由,抵抗长久以来的陈旧力量。每位传达这点并以此作为创作驱动力量的率直、真实的人跟我们都是同声一气的同志。”我想这句引言的关键词是:自由。我们确实看到这幅画试图打破规则和常规,采用看似礼貌的主题,然后剥去它的外衣——从字面上说是剥去人物的衣服,让她们赤身裸体地展示在覆盖着强烈色彩和纹理的风景中。

NARRATOR:

如果您仔细看,您会看到右边的这位女人戴着帽子,体现旧式生活的遗风。

HARRY COOPER:

所以看起来她们在某种程度上是存在于两种文化的夹缝中。这种不按照现有的诸多规范生活的表现或许是一种欧洲式的幻想。

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