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And if there were a lot of them,
如果人很多
the artist elasticated the format accordingly
画家会相应地调整设计
to get everyone in.
好让所有人都能进入画面
But then there was Rembrandt.
但后来伦勃朗出现了
And what he thought his militia patrons
他觉得雇他的民兵队
might like more than a collection of the overdressed
可能不仅仅想让他画一群穿着讲究的人
was an action portrait of an ethos.
而是一幅反映精气神的动态肖像
The actual title of the picture is
这幅画的原名是
The March Out Of The Company Of Frans Banning Cocq
《弗兰斯.班宁.科克带队前进》
and, boy, are they marching.
他们正要出征
They're on the point of beginning that march
他们刚开始巡逻
and the idea of this painting is, above all, energy.
这幅画的核心理念就是活力
Dynamism, vitality, that's what Rembrandt
伦勃朗想赞美阿姆斯特丹的
wanted to celebrate in Amsterdam.
精气神和生命力
It is propulsive.
它很有冲击力
It moves through that frame into our own space.
它走出画面 走进了我们的世界
Rembrandt has used his entire box of tricks
伦勃朗用尽他的绘画技巧
to make this feel like a moving image, like a movie, in fact.
让这幅画看上去是动态的影像 像电影一样
If you look at the kind of foreshortened hand,
如果你观察那用透视法画出的手
the order that's being given is happening in his body language.
他们听到的命令已经表现在肢体语言里了
Look at the foreshortened spear.
看这用透视法画出的矛
You can see his rather glamorously dressed lieutenant
你能看到衣着精美的副官
in that gorgeous yellow leather coat
穿着华丽的黄色皮外衣
is just on the point of moving as well.
也正准备前进
Everything is coming at us.
一切都向我们走来
And it also has a soundtrack.
它还有配乐
Everything is exploding.
一切都很激昂
A gun is being fired.
有人在开枪
A drum is being beaten.
有人在击鼓
A dog is barking.
狗正在叫
Take a look at Frans Banning Cocq's perfect little mouth and it's open.
看看弗兰斯.班宁.科克微张的小嘴
He is giving that order.
他正在下达命令
A little girl, maybe the mascot of the company,
一个小女孩 也许是整个队伍的吉祥物
is running into the brilliant light.
正跑进明亮的光线里
Some people have trouble with this painting
有些人不喜欢这幅画
and have thought of it for centuries as a kind of garish chaos,
几个世纪以来 一直觉得它艳俗而混乱
too much, too much going on.
内容太多了
But Rembrandt being Rembrandt, he stops just this side of chaos.
但伦勃朗就是伦勃朗 他控制住了这种混乱
That amidst this extraordinary kind of melee
在这混乱的人群中
is an incredibly strong compositional armature
有着明显的画面结构
and it's an armature of two parallel lines.
它隐含了两簇并行的线条
