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第388号  约翰·柯林    

No. 388  John Currin

约翰·柯林，出生于1962年，是美国现代最重要，又最具争议的画家之一。

John Colin, born in 1962, is one of the most important and controversial painters in modern America.

柯林在绘画技法上无疑已展现出非凡的精湛技巧而且他总能不断创造出引起公众注意的艺术形象。柯林的大部分作品都给人一种沮丧感．华丽的陈设表达的是非常朴实的内涵．如果艺术家对于如何取悦诱导他的观众不那么在意，也许画面将会更朴实．柯林的一些更简单直白的肖像以其亲切、人性化的风格与其他作品明显区别开来。

Colin has undoubtedly demonstrated extraordinary skills in painting techniques, and he can always create artistic images that attract public attention. Most of Colin's works give people a sense of depression. The gorgeous furnishings express a very simple connotation. If the artist doesn't care so much about how to please and induce his audience, maybe the picture will be more simple. Some of Colin's simpler and straightforward portraits are clearly distinguished from other works by their kind and humanized style.

时代追求

The pursuit of the times

柯林深受法国现实主义画家库尔贝（Gustave Courbet, l819——1877）流派的影响, 确信艺术家应当直面人生，作品应以清醒的态度反映当代现实。 柯林的仿古绘画, 其画面间不难令人感到 "古典"，但作品的华丽中表达的常常是朴实的内涵．实在, 自然又充满煽动成份, 他在绘画上展现出的技巧, 把传统的与现代表现方式结合，并加入了大量的个人意念和欲望的现代元素。而且他总能不断创造出引起公众注意的艺术形象。

Colin was deeply influenced by the school of French realistic painter Gustave Courbet (l819-1877). He believed that artists should face life directly and their works should reflect contemporary reality with a sober attitude. Colin's antique paintings are not difficult to feel "classical" among the pictures, but the gorgeous works often express the simple connotation. It is real, natural and full of provocative elements. His skills in painting combine the traditional and modern ways of expression, and add a large number of modern elements of personal ideas and desires. And he can always create artistic images that attract public attention.

柯林对传统绘画的借鉴中我们可以感觉到，约翰·柯林不想离传统太远，在他的作品中，“真实” 胜过了“ 美”和“理想”。约翰.柯林说, 他对个性描写不感兴趣，他所追求的是建立一种表现形式或风格。柯林坚持的是讽刺现实主义的道路。作为后现代时期的画家，柯林的主观意识是针对现代主义的。现代主义强调形式，柯林的绘画以视觉为切入点，来质疑形式主义。但是在针对现代主义的同时，柯林的绘画也针对后现代主义本身，质疑后现代的“再现”理论。如“挪用" 或“戏仿"。柯林的绘画，在人物动势、构图用色等方面，猛一看象是欧洲文艺复兴到古典主义时期的作品。在广义上讲，他挪用了鲁本斯。但是柯林与后现代主义僵硬的挪用和戏仿完全不同，他的人物造型没有挪用。如果说这种不同还仅仅停留在表面的层次上，那么深层的不同就在于它的人物都是当代生活中的现实人物，而不是来自神话圣经或历史。换言之，柯林所关心的，是当代话题。

From Colin's reference to traditional painting, we can feel that John Colin doesn't want to be too far away from tradition. In his works, "reality" is better than "beauty" and "ideal". John Colin said that he is not interested in personality description. What he pursues is to establish a form or style of expression. Colin insists on the path of satirical realism. As a painter in the postmodern period, Colin's subjective consciousness is aimed at modernism. Modernism emphasizes form. Colin's painting takes vision as the starting point to question formalism. However, while aiming at modernism, Colin's paintings also questioned the postmodern "reproduction" theory for postmodernism itself. Such as "misappropriation" or "Parody" 。 Colin's paintings, in terms of character momentum, composition and color, look like works from the European Renaissance to the classical period. Broadly speaking, he appropriated Rubens. However, Colin is completely different from the rigid misappropriation and parody of postmodernism, and his character modeling is not misappropriated. If this difference only stays at the surface level, the deep difference lies in that its characters are realistic characters in contemporary life, not from mythology, Bible or history. In other words, Colin is concerned about contemporary topics.

在代表作品之一的《感恩节》（Thanksgiving Day）中，虽然从人物着装、色彩描绘、光线使用上粗看像是文艺复兴时期的作品，但是，他的思路却是当代的。所绘女性白皙的肤色仿佛向外发着光，小头长颈展现时代女性崇尚的体态美，画面表面的细节刻画入微，从火鸡、器皿、发丝、布纹上，让观者不由地意识到一种富有家庭的矫情，那种矫情甚至被误认为是有教养的举动，但是这些人的身体比例失调，感觉滑稽、怪诞，呈现出一种扭曲和拉伸的风格特征。

In "Thanksgiving Day", one of the representative works, although it looks like a work of the Renaissance in terms of character dress, color description and light use, his idea is contemporary. The painted women's white skin color seems to shine outward, and their small heads and long necks show the body beauty advocated by women in the era. The details on the surface of the picture are engraved in detail. From Turkey, utensils, hair and cloth patterns, the viewer can't help but be aware of a kind of rich family affectation, which is even mistaken for educated behavior, but these people's body proportions are out of balance and feel funny Grotesque, showing a distorted and stretched style.

他的作品，能够唤起观者对北欧的文艺复兴、样式主义以及格吕内瓦尔德、帕米贾尼诺(Parmigianino)和毕加索的记忆。以一幅当代生活的风俗画，展现出勃鲁盖尔般的反讽内含。

His works can evoke the viewer's memory of the Renaissance and stylism in northern Europe, as well as Grunewald, Parmigianino and Picasso. A genre painting of contemporary life shows Bruegel's irony.

肖像绘画

Portrait painting

在约翰.柯林的早期作品中有一系列根据中学年刊上的照片创作的女孩子的肖像。画中的女孩都长着一双象黑盘子一样的大眼睛，她们目光呆滞，面无表情，没有任何个性特征, 给人一种沮丧感。在此后的系列作品中，约翰·柯林后来塑造了一组老女人的形象。这些女人拥有象时装模特一样的奇瘦身材，穿着青春少女的紧身衣裤，既怪异又震颤人心，作品表现了老女人们渴望美丽精神状态。这只是他对生活观察的结果。

In John Colin's early works included a series of portraits of girls based on photos in the high school yearbook. The girls in the painting have big eyes like black plates. Their eyes are dull, expressionless and have no personality characteristics, giving people a sense of depression. In the subsequent series of works, John Colin later created a group of images of old women. These women have extremely thin bodies like fashion models and wear tight clothes and trousers of young girls. They are weird and thrilling. Their works show the mental state of old women longing for beauty. This is only the result of his observation of life.

柯林肖像画的亲切, 人性化的风格, 大部分作品都给人一种简单直白的感觉。且看他的《流浪人》一画，粗看象是文艺复兴时期的作品，细看却是一个当代旅游者的形象。女主人公那对过分下垂的乳房，与背上的行囊和拐杖上挂着的钱袋相呼应，而这一切却又与几乎赤裸的下身和脸上所呈现的观光客式表情出现反差，使得这幅看上去单纯的没有背景的肖像作品，成为当代生活的风俗画。虽然柯林不仅挪用而且也戏仿了鲁本斯，但是，他的思路却是当代的。虽然在柯林的当代思路中，不可否认地暗含着商业性，但是无论如何，柯林的绘画作为美国当代艺术中的佼佼者，具有相当的思想性。思想性

The amiable and humanized style of Colin's portraits gives people a simple and straightforward feeling in most of his works. Let's look at his painting "Tramp". At first glance, it looks like a work of the Renaissance, but at a closer look, it is an image of a contemporary tourist. The heroine's excessively drooping breasts echo the backpack on her back and the purse hanging on her crutch, but all this is in contrast to the tourist expression on her almost naked lower body and face, making this simple portrait without background become a genre painting of contemporary life. Although Colin not only appropriated but also imitated Rubens, his ideas are contemporary. Although there is an undeniable implication of commerciality in Colin's contemporary ideas, in any case, Colin's paintings, as the leader of American contemporary art, are quite ideological. Ideological nature

柯林的思想性，是对当代生活方式的质疑和探讨。柯林并不是质疑现代主义, 或探索后现代的艺术理论, 柯林的绘画所涉及的再现问题，是画家与所指的关系，是艺术家的主观意识。他瞄准的是现世生活。他对现实的积极介入。他借油画布将现实的经历经验，以朴素踏实的手法公诸于世，他画作中所传达讯息的公信力, 无疑给当代绘画界吹送来一股强劲清新的空气。

Colin's ideology is a question and Discussion on the contemporary way of life. Colin is not questioning modernism or exploring postmodern art theory. The reproduction problem involved in Colin's painting is the relationship between the painter and the reference, and the artist's subjective consciousness. He is aiming at earthly life. His active involvement in reality. He used canvas to make his real experience known to the world in a simple and down-to-earth way. The credibility of the message conveyed in his paintings undoubtedly brings a strong and fresh air to the contemporary painting industry.

柯林的作品既追求贴近时代，又努力从传统上的陈词滥调般主题中提取艺术性，并把它展现出来。上世纪90年代，政治主题的艺术作品被看好，柯林就使用大都会和花花公子的老话题作为创作灵感源泉，公然大胆描写性感女郎与大胡子男子的调情场面。

Colin's works not only seek to be close to the times, but also strive to extract artistry from the traditional clich é like theme and show it. In the 1990s, political themed works of art were favored. Colin used the old topics of metropolis and Playboy as a source of creative inspiration to openly and boldly describe the flirting scenes between sexy girls and bearded men.

他经常把女人体歪曲或夸张成色情的形式。这种让他独树一帜的表现，被批评为性别歧视，柯林也不否认，但他说自己不喜欢这个时代的男人和女人。1992年前后，作品集中于表现有地位的中年妇女，到上世纪90年代末，柯林以其技艺娴熟媚俗主题的作品，获得了艺术界的好评和商业上的成功，到2003年他的作品就已卖到“七位数”的价格。

He often distorts or exaggerates the female body into a pornographic form. This unique performance was criticized as sexism, and Colin didn't deny it, but he said he didn't like men and women in this era. Around 1992, his works focused on high-ranking middle-aged women. By the end of 1990s, Colin's works with skilled kitsch theme had won high praise in the art world and commercial success. By 2003, his works had been sold at a "seven figure" price.

尽管在柯林的创作思路中，不可否认地暗含着商业性，表现在他那略显媚俗的笔法上，然而无论如何，他的绘画仍然无愧为美国当代艺术中的佼佼者。他有着自己的独特之处：与后现代艺术中的“挪用”完全不同，他的人物造型不论表面层次，还是深层的人物精神，基本上没有挪用前人。他所关心的是时代话题，作品所绘人物都是时下生活中的现实人物，而不是神话、圣经或历史题材里的人物。

Although Colin's creative ideas undeniably imply commerciality, which is reflected in his slightly kitsch writing style, in any case, his painting is still worthy of being a leader in American contemporary art. He has his own uniqueness: completely different from the "misappropriation" in postmodern art, his character modeling basically does not misappropriate his predecessors, regardless of the surface level or the deep character spirit. What he cares about is the topic of the times. The characters painted in his works are real characters in current life, not characters in myths, Bibles or historical themes.

人物评价编辑 播报

Character evaluation editing and broadcasting

柯林绘画的独特风格，得到了艺术界的认可和艺术爱好者的好评。迄今为止，他已经在世界各地举办了20多次以自己名字命名的个展，其中以2003年—2004年间在惠特尼美国艺术博物馆和芝加哥当代艺术博物馆的回顾展影响最大，其作品被惠特尼美术馆、泰特美术馆等多家知名机构和个人收藏。

Colin's unique style of painting has been recognized by the art community and praised by art lovers. So far, he has held more than 20 solo exhibitions named after himself around the world, among which the retrospective exhibition in Whitney Museum of American Art and Chicago Museum of contemporary art from 2003 to 2004 has the greatest influence. His works have been collected by many well-known institutions and individuals such as Whitney Museum of art and Tate Museum of art.

特别是在2008 年11月12日晚的苏富比现当代艺术品夜场拍卖会上，他的《快速美丽》（Nice ’N Easy）， 拍价大大高于估价，以545万美元售出，一举打破了受经济危机冲击，使艺术品大幅贬值的局面下而获得了超出人们预想的惊喜。

Especially at Sotheby's night auction of modern and contemporary works of art on the evening of November 12, 2008, his "nice'n easy" was sold for us $5.45 million at a price much higher than the estimated price, which broke the situation of sharp depreciation of works of art due to the impact of the economic crisis and obtained more surprises than people expected.

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