画家:托马斯.威廉.莫利Thomas William Morley (1859-1925)
作品:集市场景
种类:水彩
尺寸:31cm×51cm 有签名
编号:WC040618PRAK03
托马斯.威廉.莫利是一位极富才华的英国艺术画家,出生于1859年。他擅长描绘自然风景和人们的日常生活,笔下的作品总是生动且富有感情。他描绘风景和海景多取景于肯特郡和英吉利海峡,也喜欢记录有趣的街景和集市场景。由于莫利能良好地掌握油画与水彩的技法,熟练自如地在两种技法之间进行取舍,他的作品中两种技法总是相得益彰,富有个性,表现力强。
1906年,莫利居住在肯特郡的布罗姆利,自1917年之后,他便移居伦敦。在艺术生涯中,他共有五幅画作曾在皇家艺术学院展出,除此以外,另有九幅作品在皇家学院展出,七幅作品在皇家油画学院参展。莫利于1925年辞世,莫利的许多作品至今仍活跃在各大拍卖行,也有私人收藏家专门收藏他的作品。
作品《集市场景》(A Market Scene)是一幅民俗风情小品,画家通过敏瑞的洞察力和生动的手法,大胆有力地描绘了集市的场景,笔触张力十足,富有动感却不拘泥于细节繁琐,表现了19世纪欧洲集市场景:天气晴朗,温暖的阳光透过树枝斑驳地投在市场中,人们三三两两地聚集在各个摊位前,商贩们正向顾客殷勤地兜揽生意,小街简朴热闹,洋溢着自然快乐的淳朴民风。该作品设色明亮、活泼,笔触闪烁、轻快,画面中景物的明暗和冷暖对比较为鲜明,使作品富有表现力。左侧近景的摊位和树丛在深重的暖褐色调的基础上,以明快的浅色提亮,寥寥数笔意趣十足。中景和远景则以远处的摊位顶棚为界,利用其后的建筑和云朵营造出深远的空间感。莫利的绘画不拘泥于现实景观,更注重绘画的纯粹性和绘画语言的提炼,粗中有细的画面中蕴含独到之处,丰富饱满,浑厚大气。
Thomas William Morley was a British watercolour artist. Morley's landscapes and scenes of people life are lively and sentimental depictions of common occurrence, such as market scenes. He exhibited five works at the Royal Academy, nine at the Royal Institute (RI) and seven at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI). A Market Scene is a genre painting that depicts the market scene in Bruges, Belgium: On a sunny and warm day, a market filled with Belgians who wear simple clothing as they gather enthusiactically around market stalls. The painter mainly employed a bright, vivid tone with the brisk and rich brushwork. Meanwhile, he emphasised the contrast between light and shade, between the cold and the warmth in the picture, presenting a busy market scene full of life.