梵高油画习作《侧面的骷髅》

作品简介 / INTRODUCTION

　　Van Gogh has used a narrow brush and blue paint to indicate the outlines of the skull. Thin paint alternates with thick: for the light reflections on the skull he has used heavy splodges of light-coloured paint.

　　Drying cracks are visible in many places. Look at the area immediately below the skull, for example. The paint has cracked because Van Gogh painted the skull over an earlier picture. He covered up the earlier image with a layer of zinc white – a kind of paint that dries extremely slowly. The drying out process continued after the skull had been painted over it, causing cracks to form in the top layer of paint.

　　梵高使用细长的刷子和蓝色的油画颜料来勾勒出骷髅的轮廓。他用薄画法与厚画法交替使用：为了表现骷髅，他使用了大块浅色颜料。

　　许多地方可以看到干裂现象。例如，看一下骷髅下方的区域。颜料出现了裂纹，是因为梵高在早期的画作上绘制了骷髅。他用一层锌白色的颜料覆盖了早期的图像，这种颜料干燥非常缓慢。在覆盖上去的骷髅之后，干燥过程仍在继续，导致顶层油漆出现裂纹。