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What made this picture particularly shocking and revolutionary were the images Picasso combined within it.
這幅畫尤為震撼和革新的地方在于畢加索所結合的那些形象
The faces of the three women to the left are believed to be derived from archaic Iberian sculpture.
左邊三個女人的臉被認為來源于古伊比利亞雕塑
But the two women on the right, their fractured, irregular,distorted faces are based on the art of Africa,on tribal African masks that Picasso had encountered in Paris.
而右邊的兩個女人 她們斷裂的 不規則的扭曲的臉則源于非洲藝術 源于畢加索在巴黎看到的非洲部落的面具
Now, there's a long debate about the extent to which Picasso was influenced by African art,and he muddied the waters considerably by making a series of completely contradictory statements.
畢加索到底在多大程度上受到非洲藝術的影響 一直飽受爭議 而他通過一系列自相矛盾的言論 愈發地混淆了試聽
But you can see that Picasso,consciously and subconsciously,by using African art,was bringing into his paintings ideas about Africa that were current in Europe at the time.
但是你可以看到 畢加索 不管是有意識地 還是無意識地通過非洲藝術將當時在歐洲流行的 關于非洲的想法 帶入他的畫作之中
He was a product of his time, like anybody else,and he lived in an age when Africa was the focus of huge amounts of speculation and debate about the meaning of savagery and civilisation,of us and them, ideas about race,ideas about exoticism, ideas about eroticism.
和其他任何人一樣 他也是時代的產物 在他生活的時代 人們聚焦非洲 大量地猜測和爭論 野蠻和文明的意義關于我們和他們 對于種族的想法 對于異國情調的想法 對于色情的想法
So by placing the faces of African masks onto prostitutes,Picasso was detonating two powerful sets of ideas about race and savagery, civilisation, empire,with older ideas about female sexuality and prostitution.
所以 通過把非洲面具 畫在妓女臉上 畢加索觸發了兩套有力的觀念 對于種族和野蠻 文明和帝國的觀念以及對于女性和賣淫的舊觀念
In one painting, Picasso had turned Western ideas about art on their head.
在一幅畫中 畢加索將西方對于藝術的觀念 畫在了她們頭上
He sought to express not simply aesthetic beauty, but frightening,primal feelings about sex, violence and even death.
他想要表達的 不僅僅是美學上的美麗 還有可怕的 關于性 暴力 甚至是死亡的原始感覺
And that worked partly because of the masks' associations in the minds of those who first saw this painting with civilisations they considered primitive.
這樣的手法之所以能夠成功 部分是因為 那些第一次看到這幅畫的人會在腦海中將面具和他們所認為的原始文明聯系起來
It was the apparent threat of these objects that made them so shocking,and the perceived barbarism of the cultures that produced them,which reinforced the assumed superiority of European culture.
正是這些東西顯而易見的威脅感 使它們看上去如此令人震驚 而我們感受到的其背后文化的野蠻感 增強了人們對于歐洲文化所謂優越性的認同
