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And if there were a lot of them,
如果人很多
the artist elasticated the format accordingly
畫家會相應地調整設計
to get everyone in.
好讓所有人都能進入畫面
But then there was Rembrandt.
但后來倫勃朗出現了
And what he thought his militia patrons
他覺得雇他的民兵隊
might like more than a collection of the overdressed
可能不僅僅想讓他畫一群穿著講究的人
was an action portrait of an ethos.
而是一幅反映精氣神的動態肖像
The actual title of the picture is
這幅畫的原名是
The March Out Of The Company Of Frans Banning Cocq
《弗蘭斯.班寧.科克帶隊前進》
and, boy, are they marching.
他們正要出征
They're on the point of beginning that march
他們剛開始巡邏
and the idea of this painting is, above all, energy.
這幅畫的核心理念就是活力
Dynamism, vitality, that's what Rembrandt
倫勃朗想贊美阿姆斯特丹的
wanted to celebrate in Amsterdam.
精氣神和生命力
It is propulsive.
它很有沖擊力
It moves through that frame into our own space.
它走出畫面 走進了我們的世界
Rembrandt has used his entire box of tricks
倫勃朗用盡他的繪畫技巧
to make this feel like a moving image, like a movie, in fact.
讓這幅畫看上去是動態的影像 像電影一樣
If you look at the kind of foreshortened hand,
如果你觀察那用透視法畫出的手
the order that's being given is happening in his body language.
他們聽到的命令已經表現在肢體語言里了
Look at the foreshortened spear.
看這用透視法畫出的矛
You can see his rather glamorously dressed lieutenant
你能看到衣著精美的副官
in that gorgeous yellow leather coat
穿著華麗的黃色皮外衣
is just on the point of moving as well.
也正準備前進
Everything is coming at us.
一切都向我們走來
And it also has a soundtrack.
它還有配樂
Everything is exploding.
一切都很激昂
A gun is being fired.
有人在開槍
A drum is being beaten.
有人在擊鼓
A dog is barking.
狗正在叫
Take a look at Frans Banning Cocq's perfect little mouth and it's open.
看看弗蘭斯.班寧.科克微張的小嘴
He is giving that order.
他正在下達命令
A little girl, maybe the mascot of the company,
一個小女孩 也許是整個隊伍的吉祥物
is running into the brilliant light.
正跑進明亮的光線里
Some people have trouble with this painting
有些人不喜歡這幅畫
and have thought of it for centuries as a kind of garish chaos,
幾個世紀以來 一直覺得它艷俗而混亂
too much, too much going on.
內容太多了
But Rembrandt being Rembrandt, he stops just this side of chaos.
但倫勃朗就是倫勃朗 他控制住了這種混亂
That amidst this extraordinary kind of melee
在這混亂的人群中
is an incredibly strong compositional armature
有著明顯的畫面結構
and it's an armature of two parallel lines.
它隱含了兩簇并行的線條
