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Unit 17

Trees Are Violet

In 1874, fifty-five artists held the first independent group show of Impressionist art. Most of them, including Canne, Pissarro, Renoir, Degas, Monet, Manet and his sister-in-law Berthe Morisot — “a bunch of lunatics and a women,” remarked one observer — had been rejected by the Salon, the annual French state-sponsored exhibition that offered the only real opportunity for artists to display and tell their work. Never mind, they told each other. At the Salon, paintings were stacked three or four high, and crowded too closely together on the walls. At their independent exhibition, mounted in what was formerly a photographer’s studio, the artists could hang their works at eye level with space between them. Although the artists didn’t call themselves “Impressionists” at first, this occasion would be the first of eight such “Impressionist” exhibits over the next twelve years.

An outraged critic, Louis Leroy, coined the label “Impressionist”. He looked at Monet’s Impression Sunrise, the artist’s sensory response to a harbor at dawn, painted with sketchy brushstrokes. “Impression!” the journalist scoffed. “Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished!” Within a year, the name Impressionism was an accepted term in the art world.

If the name was accepted, the art itself was not. In impressionist paintings, trees are violet; the sky is the color of fresh butter … Although some people appreciated the new paintings, many did not. The critics agreed the Impressionists couldn’t draw and their colors were considered vulgar. Their compositions were strange. Their short, hurried brushstrokes make their paintings practically illegible.

Impressionism broke every rule of the French Academy of Fine Arts, the conservative school that had dominated art training and taste since 1648. Impressionist scenes of modern urban and country life were a far cry from the Academic efforts to teach moral lessons through historic, and mythological themes. This tradition, drawn from ancient Greek and Roman art, featured idealized images. Symmetrical compositions, hard outlines, and smooth paint surfaces characterized academic paintings.

Despite the Academy’s power, seeds of artistic and political unrest had been sown long before 1874. The mid-19th century was a time of political instability in France. During the Revolution of 1848, Parisian workers with socialist goals overthrew the monarchy, only to see conservatives seize the reins of government later that year. Fear of further uprising created widespread distrust among the aristocracy, the poor, and the newly prosperous bourgeoisie or middle class. Meanwhile, the far-reaching Industrial Revolution fostered a new faith in the individual and his unlimited potential. Romantic painters began to celebrate individuality in term of painting technique with warm colors and vigorous brushstrokes. The Impressionists brought together a variety of influences, beliefs, and styles when they first exhibited in Paris. Their rejection of the Academy and the Academy’s rejection of them united the group.

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樹(shù)是紫羅蘭色的

1874年，55位藝術(shù)家舉行了第一次獨(dú)立的印象派藝術(shù)展。他們中的大部分，包括戛納、畢沙羅、雷諾爾、德加、夏奈、愛(ài)德華，還有他妻子的妹妹莫里索。一位參觀者說(shuō)，“一群瘋子和一個(gè)女人，”已經(jīng)被沙龍拒絕的，這個(gè)沙龍是每年法國(guó)國(guó)家贊助的為藝術(shù)家顯示提供真實(shí)的機(jī)會(huì)并告訴他們工作不要記在心上，他們互相通知。在這個(gè)沙龍，圖畫(huà)被堆放有3或4個(gè)高高的掛在墻上緊密地圍在一起。在獨(dú)立的畫(huà)展上，安裝在以前的攝影工作室，藝術(shù)家把他們的作品掛在他們之間眼睛的高度。雖然最初這些藝術(shù)家不稱(chēng)他們自己為印象派，但這將是十二年來(lái)8個(gè)展覽會(huì)中的第一個(gè)印象派。

一個(gè)氣憤的評(píng)論家路易斯杜撰了印象派。他看了莫奈的日出印象,藝術(shù)家的感覺(jué)是黎明的港口,一個(gè)生動(dòng)的寫(xiě)生。“印象!”記者嘲笑他。胚胎國(guó)家的壁紙更加完成!在一年之內(nèi),這個(gè)名字是一個(gè)印象派藝術(shù)界普遍公認(rèn)的術(shù)語(yǔ)。

如果名字被接受,藝術(shù)本身并沒(méi)有被接受。在印象派畫(huà)家的作品,樹(shù)是紫色的;天空的顏色是新鮮的奶油色…雖然有些人欣賞的新畫(huà)，但許多人都不欣賞。評(píng)論家們同意不能讓印象派和他們的顏色是為是庸俗的。他們的作品是很奇怪的。他們簡(jiǎn)短的，慌忙的筆畫(huà)使他們的繪畫(huà)幾乎很難辨認(rèn)。

印象派打破了法國(guó)美術(shù)學(xué)院的每條規(guī)則，保守的學(xué)校自從1648年就在藝術(shù)培訓(xùn)和審美方面占據(jù)了統(tǒng)治地位。城市和農(nóng)村現(xiàn)代化生活的印象派景象已經(jīng)遠(yuǎn)離了學(xué)院通過(guò)具有歷史意義的、神話(huà)的主題努力教道德課程。這個(gè)傳統(tǒng),來(lái)自于古希臘羅馬美術(shù)、精選理想化的圖像。對(duì)稱(chēng)的成分,努力輪廓特征、滑油漆表面學(xué)術(shù)繪畫(huà)。

盡管學(xué)院的力量,在1874年以前藝術(shù)和政治的種子動(dòng)蕩已經(jīng)被撒播了很久。19世紀(jì)中期法國(guó)的政局是不穩(wěn)定的。在1848年社會(huì)主義的革命目標(biāo)是巴黎的工人推翻了君主制,只看到保守派抓住政權(quán)的后一年。害怕更大的起義引起了廣泛的不信任在貴族、窮人,新興資產(chǎn)階級(jí)和中產(chǎn)階級(jí)中。與此同時(shí),工業(yè)革命在個(gè)人和他們無(wú)限地潛能里產(chǎn)生了一個(gè)深淵的信念。浪漫的畫(huà)家開(kāi)始從繪畫(huà)技巧在暖色、充滿(mǎn)活力的筆慶祝個(gè)性。在他們第一次在巴黎展覽時(shí)，畫(huà)家聚集了各種各樣的影響、信仰和風(fēng)格。他們拒絕學(xué)院及學(xué)院拒絕他們聯(lián)合在一起。

詞匯：

academic adj.學(xué)術(shù)的

academy n.專(zhuān)科院校,研究院

bourgeoisie n.資產(chǎn)階級(jí)

characterize vt.表現(xiàn)出……的特點(diǎn)

critic n.批評(píng)家

display vt.展示

distrust n.不信任

dominate vt.主宰

far-reaching adj.深遠(yuǎn)的

feature vt.突出……特色

flesh n.肉