托马斯·科尔风景画《山间渡口》高清图片

作品简介

Painted two years before Cole’s early death, this picture appears to be the record of an entirely imagined vision, with an implied symbolic meaning. The mountain in the center, with light at its summit and shadow at its base, dwarfs and dominates the forest around it. Civilization has laid no mark on pure nature. Just at the edge of a murky body of water, however, a horseman appears on a hesitating white mount, pausing momentarily before plunging in to ford the dark and frightening depths. This confrontation of man and wilderness draws on a long allegorical tradition of the lonely rider journeying through an awesome world.

这幅作品创作于科尔英年早逝的前两年，看似描绘了一个完全虚构的景观，却暗含象征意义。中央的山峰——顶端沐浴天光，基部沉入阴影——以压倒性的姿态凌驾于周边森林之上。纯粹的原始自然未受文明丝毫沾染。然而，就在幽暗水体的边缘，一名骑手驾驭着踌躇的白马蓦然现身，在涉足漆黑可怖的深潭前短暂驻足。人与荒野的这场对峙，延续了关于孤独旅者穿越恢弘世界的经典寓言传统。