Three days after the Great Tohoku Earthquake in Japan, I will be returning to China in a week. On the third floor of the outpatient department of the Japanese Medical University in Tokyo, I held the coin-operated phone, "Excuse me, the National Museum of Western Art, is it open today?" "I'm sorry, because of the earthquake. The reason is temporarily closed", "May I ask the Mitsubishi Hall 1, is it open today?", the answer is still no, "What about the Bunkamura Museum, Vermeer's painting exhibition?", "The Bunkamura Museum is open now, but now there is an earthquake, you know "Uh...I know, thanks," I jumped up and hung up.
The green "Nanboku Line" turns to the purple "Hanzomon Line", and soon a Chinese girl will appear at the entrance of the subway station in Shibuya. You are not unfamiliar at this "five forks", and you will walk along Bunkamura Street. , you will reach the Bunkamura Building, which is two buildings next to each other.
The Bunkamura Art Center includes a cinema, art gallery, bookstore, cafe, and museum. In the bookstore, I have seen the most comprehensive Western art books. To coincide with the Vermeer exhibition, the movie theater is showing "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and Colin Firth's new film "The King's Speech".
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The movie "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is a story purely based on Vermeer's oil painting of the same name, which not only shows the extraordinary ability of the screenwriter Imagination, also explains the peculiar magic of this painting.
Colin Firth, the young and handsome Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, the puffy-faced and determined George VI in "The King's Speech", in this film, he is the painter Vermeer.
She was a young woman, with almost translucent white skin, rosy lips that always seemed to stop talking, plain and neat clothes, hair hidden under a white bonnet like all unmarried women of that period, she was just a come to the kitchen The country maid who helped; he is the mysterious master of the family, his paintings are the source of income for the family, he is domineering, he is gentle, he is Vermeer; the blond mistress has expensive jewelry and exquisite clothing, Have a good education and a thin soul.
She cleaned his studio and was attracted by his paintings. She even understood him, so she would ask the hostess an unexpected question: should the glass in the studio be cleaned, because it would change the light.
It seemed only natural for him to be attracted to her, a girl who was as fresh and plump as water droplets, not to mention that she knew how to appreciate his paintings, act as his assistant, act as his model, and bring him inspiration. He also brought her into a world she had never seen before, about painting, about the world of nobility and beauty.
Desires flow in the air, and repressed emotions are full of tension. He finally paints her, taking the pearl earrings from his reluctant wife forcefully in the name of art and a living.
This seems to be a sacrifice for art, she sat in front of the easel, changed her clothes according to his request, let him see her long chestnut hair, and agreed to wear pearl earrings that did not match her identity. "My ears don't have ear holes yet." She handed him the long needle, he pierced her earlobe without mercy, she frowned in pain, he put pearl earrings on her, this is all the body get in touch with. No wonder some critics concluded: Desire becomes the tingling of the earlobe and the warmth of the fingertips.
However, I would like to say that this experience is the pearl of their lives. At the end of the film, the girl marries a young butcher, and the painter presents the pair of pearl earrings as a wedding gift. It is not the first time that he has painted a servant into a painting, but her restraint, spirituality and self-knowledge make her unique. After she is gone, he can still be his boring wife all day long; the young butcher has youthful and handsome The face that brought her the joy of love, but only he had taken her to the world of art. They are treasures in each other's lives.
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Historical and allegorical paintings; portraits; genre and interior paintings.
The Bible and miracle paintings in the early years gradually turned into interior and genre paintings. The genre paintings and interior paintings may not be as refined as history paintings and allegorical paintings, but the vitality of the city life makes the pictures more alive, as if life is flowing on the canvas. If you want to collect, the works of Dutch painters of this period are undoubtedly the best choice.
Looking at the development of painting art after the seventeenth century, it has changed from delicate to rough, regular to wild, from figurative to abstract. Contemporary art has a strong impact on the concept of traditional painting. However, exaggerated forms can only be considered qualified if they are unified with the ideas expressed. Even Picasso's works are not always valuable. The works of Dutch painters during this period reached their peak in traditional painting skills. Apart from them, there is really no more exquisite painting.
Vermeer's "The Geographer" is the work of the town hall on display. It is refreshing to see it. The thinking look of the characters in the picture is full of the style of a scholar. Of course, the advantages of the selection of materials also make this painting have a strong historical significance. The color of the clothes, the light cast into the windows, and the expressions of the figures fully demonstrate the mature painting skills of the Dutch Golden Age, and the nautical charts, globes and geographers may also be the best representatives of the great age of navigation.
Still life
of translucent grapes, bright cherries, and glittering porcelain make people once again sigh the beauty of Dutch painting beyond imagination. It is no wonder that there is a Rembrandt comparable to the Renaissance trio (Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci) and the almost forgotten Vermeer, the representative of the golden age of Dutch painting. Delicate, accurate, delicate, gorgeous, mature in technique, meticulous in creation, and no lack of innovation, it is not too much to describe Dutch painting. Van Gogh grew up in such a country. The legendary town where Vermeer lives is also very clean and tidy.
The luxurious and empty aristocratic life, the gorgeous Bible and mythological stories, the vivid city life, the still life and the landscape together constitute the subject matter of Dutch painting in the seventeenth century. These paintings seem to take me on a journey to the Holy Land again. From the Netherlands (Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Gogh) to Paris (Surrealism) to Italy (the three masters of the Renaissance), as an art blind, I am spreading the local history of Western painting history bit by bit.
Landscape painting - back to the delicate.
In the 16th century, landscape painting existed as a background for religious paintings, and gradually became independent in the 17th century, with seascapes and civic life as the themes. The wonderful fusion of the ocean and the blue sky at the lower sea level, the delicate expression techniques, the use of light, and the different depictions of close-up and long-range views are impressive.
The sails are full of wind and the hull is tilted; the transparent clouds in the sunset, and the sand dunes, mountains and trees with different light and shadow colors; the water pool under the waterfall splashes, with figures and pine trees beside the waterfall, and the castle in the distance The clever composition shown with the sky; the storm is approaching, the sky is full of dark clouds, the dark forest below, the lit hut, the branches hanging on the water, and the last rays of sunlight are reflected on the water; the nearby scattered cattle and the far An old castle next to each other.
Antwerp, Amsterdam, the enviable Netherlands!
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After the strong earthquake, aftershocks seem to have become life In part, the legendary nuclear leakage (radiation contamination) is gradually deteriorating, but the sky is as blue and clean as water, the wind blows as always, and there is no smell of pollution.
The Japanese people before the earthquake were confident, but the trauma of the strong earthquake caught them off guard. The unfavorable rescue measures after the earthquake, the intensification of the nuclear leakage incident, and the prevarication of relevant functional departments have greatly damaged their confidence.
The trams and subways were crowded with dull faces, and the medical staff at the hospital didn't seem to panic, even though the director chose to live in Corey, taking the lead in talking and laughing in the office.
This is the country and city I have been in for a year, and I never thought to say goodbye to it in this atmosphere, panic seems to replace sadness.
I flipped through the schedule on the wall in the endoscopy room and felt that the surgery in two weeks would not be my business.
In the evening, I went out to dinner with my friends, my friends ordered Chinese tea, the familiar smell of jasmine reminded me of home again, my friends were joking, I can only have one drink, otherwise, you will go to the airport tonight.
When I came back, I passed by Tian Duan, whom I was familiar with. I didn't have the chance to go to Tian Duan Bridge again. I could only say goodbye silently in my heart. The eagerness to return home and the reluctance to leave made those days full of unreality. They all said that they would definitely see each other again and would definitely come back.
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Bunkamura, Bunkamura, do you remember the girl with the pearl earring?
After returning to China for more than two months, most of the time was given to work, using the terminology of the student days, and now it has entered a stage of preparation for the exam. When the wind blows, I occasionally think of the night when I walked alone Arakawa, and Bunkamura jumped to my lips like a spell, telling me that there are still unfinished stories.
Every experience is like a legend and like a dream. I think of another island in this square city. Life is real and illusory. Time and space are so rich in meaning, haha, haha.
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