What shall I paint today?
我今天要画什么?
What shall I paint today? Artists are often troubled by this question. The answer is not so much about what to paint as it is about why you paint. Robert Henri said, “What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture" I think he meant that we should allow ourselves to feel the subject more deeply and think less about how it looks.
我今天要画什么?艺术家常常为这个问题所困扰。答案不在于你要画什么,而在于你为什么要画。罗伯特·亨利说过:“我们需要的是更多的对生活奇迹的感觉,而不是拍电影。我认为他的意思是我们应该让自己更深刻地感受这个主题,而不是去想它是什么样子。”
What is the subject, after all? The subject is you: your knowledge and understanding of what you see, your emotional response to what you see, and your interpretation of what you see, Eugene Delacroix said, “Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you… The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself in one’s work.”
主题到底是什么? 主题是你:你对所见之物的知识和理解,你对所见之物的情感反应,以及你对所见之物的诠释,尤金·德拉克洛瓦说过,“一切都是主题;主题是你自己。你必须关注你自己,而不是你的周围。最大的幸福是向别人揭示自己,学习自己,在自己的工作中绘画自己。”