托马斯·科尔风景画《牛轭湾草图》高清图片

作品简介

科尔深刻影响了他的同僚们——其中最重要的学生弗雷德里克·埃德温·丘奇(Frederic Edwin Church)便在他的启发下开始进行铅笔或油彩的户外写生。对科尔而言，户外写生与细致观察自然密不可分，更是创作重要画室作品的关键基础。在创作《牛轭湾》时，科尔先是在现场完成铅笔速写，随后回到画室绘制了这幅小型油彩草图，用以确定画面构图、色彩平衡与场景的内在韵律。画面右下角的一抹颜料痕迹几乎呈现出人形——这或许是对艺术家将自身形象融入风景的最初构思，正如最终成品中那幅著名的自画像身影。

Cole inspired many of his colleagues, including his most important student, Frederic Edwin Church, to take up plein-air painting or sketching in pencil or oils. For Cole, the act of sketching outdoors went hand in hand with the close study of nature and was an essential tool in the creation of a significant studio painting. For The Oxbow, Cole made a pencil sketch on site and later painted this small oil sketch in his studio as he worked to establish the composition, color balance, and internal rhythm of the scene. A squiggle of paint at the lower right appears almost human—perhaps a first suggestion of the artist’s presence in the landscape, as seen in his self-portrait in the final canvas.