视觉与材质——油画颜料的视觉效果

本文通过对佛兰德斯和北欧、意人利和南欧的色层语言的分析,可以看出油画这种艺术形式之所以能长时期吸引人们,与它的材质密切相关。这种由材质形成的色层语言不仅生动地表现了对自然的摹仿,而且体现出它独特的色层美感。

Vision and material quality

Drawing is an art form in which its practitioners have attained a considerable expressive range with a few materials and tools.About a dozen of those discussed here have contributed to most masterpieces.Clearly,these simple materials were widely used and very endurable,because they were responsive to the artist's will.It was the artist who made them eloquent and who achieved bold gestures or subtle nuances with the addition of a drop of oil or as light twist of the pen.The Western tradition of drawing discussed here emerged in the early Renaissance,at a time when medieval practices began to give way to a method,the observation of nature,and an illusionary imitation of nature.Today we rely on experts trained in art history,science,and to a lesser extent,art to tell us who made a particular drawing,for what purpose,and how,but few of these experts have practical experience with the materials.We must study these materials and techniques as we would learn a dead language.