Home from Sea《出 海 归 来》

文/肖恩·芒格 译/爱艺

By Sean Munger

Home from Sea《出 海 归 来》

文/肖恩·芒格 译/爱艺

BySean Munger

This is a picture of sorrow, pathos1pathos怜悯，同情。and loss. It’s also one of extraordinary beauty, richness and vivid detail. It’s calledHome from Sea(oil on canvas,50.8cm×65.4cm, 1862), although it is based on an earlier work by Arthur Hughes from 1857 calledThe Mother’s Grave.

[2] In this version, a boy, evidently just back from a tour with the navy,mourns over the grave of his mother who has apparently died while he was at sea. His sister sits nearby, unable to console2console安慰。him. While the expressions are soft and not very anguished, the overall effect of the picture is quite wrenching3wrench使痛苦，使十分难过。.Notice also the detail of the lamb behind the tombstone in the background. It’s symbolic4symbolic作为象征的；象征性的。: a child separated from its parent (the sheep to the left) by the grave.

[3] The landscape is one of those old churchyards that are so evocative5evocative引起记忆的；唤起感情的。一般用法为evocative of sth。of the English countryside. It is believed that the place depicted here is Chingford,Essex. Arthur Hughes began working on this scene in the 1850s, but for this version he asked his wife, Tryphena, to pose as the sister, who wasn’t included in the original version.

这幅画表现的是悲伤、怜悯和失落。该画美丽超凡，色彩丰富，细节生动，堪称杰作。画作取名《出海归来》（布面油画，50.8厘米×65.4厘米，1862。图见本期封底），是根据阿瑟·休斯早前的一幅作品《母亲之墓》（1857）创作的。

[2]此画中，一个男孩在母亲的坟前痛哭，男孩显然刚刚跟随船队从海上归来，而母亲看来就是在他出海期间过世的。他的姐姐坐在一旁，无力安慰。女孩表情温和，并没有显得极度悲伤，然而整幅画却传递出深深的痛苦。还有一个值得注意的细节，就是背景中站在墓碑后的那只羊羔，它象征着因那方坟墓而与父母（画面左侧的那只羊）分离的孩子。

[4] Hughes was the exemplar6exemplar模范；典型。of the lush7lush繁茂的；多产的。romantic painter of the late 19th century. In addition to scenes like this he was attracted to mythological/Arthurian themes and Shakespeare; he painted Ophelia fromHamletseveral times. He was only 30 when he did this painting.

[5] The original of this picture is in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University. Hughes died in 1915,having painted over 700 pictures in his lifetime.

[3]画中风景是古老的教堂墓地，一看到便令人想起英国的乡村。人们认为，此画描绘的是英国埃塞克斯的钦福特。1850年代，阿瑟·休斯便开始描绘这一景色，为了创作这幅画，他还请夫人特丽费娜当画中姐姐的模特，早前的原版中并没有姐姐这个人物。

[4]休斯是19世纪末创作力旺盛的浪漫画家的典范。除了这样的风景，他对神话/亚瑟王主题和莎士比亚也很感兴趣，曾取材《哈姆雷特》绘制过多幅以奥菲利娅为主题的作品。创作此画时，休斯年仅30。

[5]此画原画藏于牛津大学阿什莫林博物馆。休斯于1915年离世，一生创作了700余幅画作。

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