托马斯·科尔作品《生命之旅：壮年》高清图片

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在这幅横向构图的画作中，一位男子跪立于金色小舟内，双手交握祈祷，抬头仰望。急流正将小舟冲向嶙峋礁石。他肤色苍白，须发呈深褐色，身披绯红束腰外衣。船首的带翼雕像高擎沙漏，金舟向右方疾驰——左侧水平如镜，右侧构图边缘却是白浪滔天。

左岸高耸着覆满青苔的锯齿状岩壁，右岸同样有峭壁束水。最近景处，一株枯槁的怪树从右下角扭曲攀升。河流冲出画布右缘，远方重归平静水域。地平线位于画面中段偏下，右侧天际线处，金黄花束刺透深紫粉的暮云，斜掠的梅紫色条纹暗示远方的雨幕。

左上角的白光中，一位金红长发、肌肤莹白的人物垂目俯视舟中男子，素白衣袍加身，额前金星闪耀。男子上方的雾蓝色斑块初看似云翳，细观却现三位长须老者的面容。

A man looks up as he kneels with his hands clasped in prayer in a small golden boat on a river that rushes toward craggy rocks in this horizontal landscape painting. The man has pale skin, dark brown hair and beard, and he wears a crimson-red tunic. A winged figurehead at the front of the gold boat holds up an hourglass. The boat sails to our right, away from calm waters to the left toward whitewater rapids along the right edge of the composition. A ridge of tall, jagged, moss-covered rock lines the water’s edge to our left and another channels the water on the opposite side of the river. Closest to us, a barren, blasted tree twists up from the lower right corner. The river passes off the right edge of the canvas, and calm waters beyond extend into the distance. The horizon line comes just under halfway up the composition. Bands of golden yellow break through the deep mauve-pink sky near the horizon line to our right. Diagonal plum-purple streaks suggest falling rain in the distance. A white glow in the upper left corner emanates around a person with long, reddish-blond hair and pale skin, who looks down at the man in the boat. That person wears a white garment and a golden star shines at the forehead. Smudges of fog blue in the sky above the man first read as clouds but upon closer inspection, the cloud-like forms contain the faces of three bearded men.