自然与现实——莱尔米特的绘画

Nature and Reality:The Paintings of Léon Augustin Lhermitte

莱尔米特是19世纪末20世纪初法国重要的现实主义画家,他早期接受法国自然主义流派的技法训练,而后受库尔贝(Gustave Courbet)、左拉(Emile Zola)等人宣扬“现实主义”的影响,专注于对农民工作与家庭日常等现实题材的创作。莱尔米特绘画的主要特点是.不执著于突岀或表现不同阶级间的特殊差异与矛盾,而是通过自然观察的方式,忠实于人物的内心,对发生在身边的现实场景展开叙事性的描绘。除了《收割者的报酬》《早市》等代表作以外,他为《田间生活》(安德烈.特里耶著)所绘制的插图也充分展现了艺术家忠实于自然与现实的创作特点。

Leon Augustin Lhermitte is one of the important realistic artists in the late 19th to early 20th century in France. Because of the early skill training of French naturalism and the later influence of the realism advocated by Gustave Courbet and Emile Zola, Lhermitte paid more attention on the realistic subjects, such as life of peasants, daily family life and so on. The significant feature of Lhermittes paintings is the narrative depiction of the realistic scenes around the figures to represent their heart faithfully through natural observation rather than highlighting the special differences and contradictions between different classes. In addition to his representative works like Reaper's Wages, and Morning Market, the illustrations in Andre Theuriets Farming Life also showed his characteristics of being true to nature and reality in his creation.