梵高静物油画《带圣经的静物》

作品简介 / INTRODUCTION

　　作品作者：文森特·梵高(Vincent Willem van Gogh)

　　作者国籍：荷兰

　　材质类型：布面油画

　　作品题材：静物画

　　作品风格：现实主义

　　原作尺寸：65.7 x 78.5 cm

　　创作时间：1885年

　　收藏地点：Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands(荷兰阿姆斯特丹梵高美术馆)

　　This hefty Bible had belonged to Van Gogh's father, a Protestant minister. Van Gogh painted it just after his father's death. He placed his own copy of Émile Zola'sLa joie de vivrenext to it. That book was a kind of 'bible' for modern life. The books symbolize the different worldviews of Van Gogh and his father.

　　Vincent describedthis work to Theo as 'a still life of an open, hence an off-white Bible, bound in leather, against a black background with a yellow-brown foreground, with an additional note of lemon yellow.' He wanted to show that the colour black could be effective. The brothers had previously discussed this question at length.

　　Theo thought Vincent's canvases were too dark and gloomy. He encouraged his brother to use lighter, brighter tones, as the Impressionists did.

　　这本沉重的圣经曾属于梵高的父亲，他是一位新教牧师。梵高在他父亲去世后绘制了这幅画。他将自己的一本埃米尔·左拉的《生活的欢乐》放在旁边。这本书对于现代生活来说是一种“圣经”。这两本书象征了梵高和他父亲不同的世界观。

　　文森特把这幅作品描述给了提奥，他称之为“一幅描绘敞开的、因此是米黄色的圣经的静物画，用皮革装帧，放在黑色背景和黄棕色前景下，并添上柠檬黄的注释。”他想展示黑色可以产生有效的效果。兄弟之间此前已经详细讨论过这个问题。

　　提奥认为文森特的画布太暗沉和阴郁。他鼓励他的弟弟使用更亮、更明亮的色调，就像印象派画家那样。