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It was possible, in the mind's eye at least,
但至少在想象中
to gaze west towards the setting sun
朝西向著落日
and see an unclouded Eden.
有可能看到清晰的伊甸園
Some truly lurid panorama paintings
一些華麗的全景畫由此誕生
were produced in the name of these paradise illusions,
代表了天堂的幻想
all shining with the stage lighting of Providence.
都在天意之光的照耀下熠熠生輝
All of these efforts, like most propaganda,
令人傷感的是 和大多數(shù)傳道一樣
were sentimentally forgettable once the war was over.
所有這些一旦戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)結(jié)束就被遺忘
But one great painting
但一副偉大的畫作
came out of the craving for landscape consolation.
擺脫了渴望美景的模式
And it was a distinctly unromantic elegy,
它無(wú)疑是平淡無(wú)奇的挽歌
both tragic and hopeful at the same time.
同時(shí)具有悲劇色彩和希望
The Veteran In A New Field
《在新田野的老兵》
was the work of the greatest, in my view,
在我看來(lái)是十九世紀(jì)所有美國(guó)藝術(shù)家的作品中
of all 19th-century American artists.
最偉大作品
Winslow Homer was then just 29
溫斯洛.霍默時(shí)年僅二十九歲
and fresh from the battlefield.
剛從戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)上返回
As a war illustrator for magazines and newspapers,
他給雜志和報(bào)紙畫戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)插畫
he'd seen the carnage first-hand.
他見過大屠殺
Unlike the starry-eyed painters of expansive horizons,
不像那些畫廣闊天空的畫家
with their Olympian points of view,
持超圖世俗的觀點(diǎn)
Homer's picture comes down to earth
霍默的畫腳踏實(shí)地
and plants us deep in the soil.
帶我們深入土地
That soil is both infinitely fertile, bursting with gold,
土地肥沃 充滿金子
but also, of course, deeply blood-soaked.
但也浸滿鮮血
Homer painted it in 1865,
霍默于1865年完成該作品
just a few months after the bloodiest war in all US history
就在美國(guó)史上最血腥的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)
had come to an end.
結(jié)束后的幾個(gè)月之后
The traumatic shock of Lincoln's assassination, too,
林肯被刺殺造成的震驚
was still raw in Homer's mind.
霍默依舊記憶猶新
In the solitary, epic figure of the veteran, there is, of course,
在孤獨(dú)又偉大的老兵身上
something of the lonely nobility of the martyred president -
當(dāng)然也有遇害總統(tǒng)身上孤單又高貴的品質(zhì)
thanklessly toiling, and,
徒勞地勞苦
I believe, also something of Homer himself.
我相信也有霍默自身的東西
Like his namesake from classical antiquity,
像和他同名的古典時(shí)代人物一樣[荷馬]
Homer conjures the great themes
霍默創(chuàng)造了偉大的主題
of sacrifice and regeneration and, of course,
將犧牲 重生 當(dāng)然還有
the endless regiments of the fallen, embodied in the wheat.
無(wú)數(shù)倒下的軍人 通過小麥而體現(xiàn)
