Paris Through the Window《窗外的巴黎》

愛(ài)藝愛(ài)藝

“Paris！” Chagall wrote in his autobiography. “No word sounded sweeter to me！” By 1911， at age 24， he was there， thanks to a stipend of 40 rubles a month from a supportive member of the Duma， Russias elective assembly， who had taken a liking to the young artist.

After Marc Chagall moved to Paris from Russia in 1910， his paintings quickly came to reflect the latest avant-garde styles. In Paris Through the Window （oil on canvas， 135.8 cm × 141.4 cm， 1913）， Chagalls debt to the Orphic Cubism of his colleague Robert Delaunay is clear in the semitransparent overlapping planes of vivid color in the sky above the city. The Eiffel Tower， which appears in the cityscape， was also a frequent subject in Delaunays work. For both artists it served as a metaphor for Paris and perhaps modernity itself. Chagalls parachutist might also refer to contemporary experience， since the first successful jump occurred in 1912. Other motifs suggest the artists native Vitebsk. This painting is an enlarged version of a window view in a self-portrait painted one year earlier， in which the artist contrasted his birthplace with Paris. The Janus1 figure in Paris Through the Window has been read as the artist looking at once westward to his new home in France and eastward to Russia. Chagall， however， refused literal interpretations of his paintings， and it is perhaps best to think of them as lyrical evocations.

Years after Chagall painted The Soldier Drinks he stated that it developed from his memory of tsarist soldiers who were billeted with families during the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese war. The enlisted man in the picture， with his right thumb pointing out the window and his left index finger pointing to the cup， is similar to the two-faced man in Paris Through the Window in that both figuratively mediate between dual worlds—interior versus exterior space， past and present， the imaginary and the real. In paintings such as these it is clear that the artist preferred the life of the mind， memory， and magical symbolism over realistic representation.

Paris Through the Window is currently exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum， New York.

夏加爾曾在自傳中感嘆：“巴黎！天底下最美好的字眼！”1911年，24歲的夏加爾就置身此城，俄國(guó)杜馬（俄文“議會(huì)”之意）的一名議員很喜歡這個(gè)年輕的畫(huà)家，每月給他40盧布的津貼，他得以維生。

1910年馬克·夏加爾從俄國(guó)遷居法國(guó)巴黎后，他的畫(huà)作很快就反映出最新的前衛(wèi)風(fēng)格。在《窗外的巴黎》（布面油畫(huà)，135.8厘米×141.4厘米，1913年）一畫(huà)中，夏加爾借鑒了同行羅伯特·德勞內(nèi)的俄耳甫斯立體主義（又譯奧費(fèi)主義）技法，這一點(diǎn)在城市上空層層疊疊、半透明的鮮艷色塊中表現(xiàn)得十分明顯。埃菲爾鐵塔出現(xiàn)在背景市景中，那也是德勞內(nèi)作品的常見(jiàn)主題。對(duì)這兩位畫(huà)家來(lái)說(shuō)，鐵塔象征巴黎，或許也象征現(xiàn)代本身。夏加爾畫(huà)中的那個(gè)跳傘者可能也是對(duì)當(dāng)時(shí)生活的呈現(xiàn)，因?yàn)槿祟?lèi)首次成功跳傘就是在1912年。其他的圖案暗示了夏加爾的故鄉(xiāng)維捷布斯克。這幅畫(huà)是一年前一幅自畫(huà)像的放大版，在那幅自畫(huà)像中，夏加爾將自己的出生地和巴黎進(jìn)行了對(duì)比。此畫(huà)中還有一個(gè)兩面神，被解讀為畫(huà)家一面向西眺望法國(guó)的新家，一面向東眺望俄國(guó)。不過(guò)，夏加爾拒絕用文字解讀自己的畫(huà)作，或許最好把它們看作富有詩(shī)意的重現(xiàn)。

在畫(huà)完《喝酒的士兵》多年后，夏加爾曾表示，他是根據(jù)對(duì)沙俄士兵的記憶描繪的，那些士兵在1904至1905年日俄戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)期間被安排與家人同住。畫(huà)中的那個(gè)士兵，右手拇指指向窗外，左手食指指著杯子，與《窗外的巴黎》中的雙面人類(lèi)似，兩者都是象征性調(diào)和著雙重世界——內(nèi)部空間與外部空間、過(guò)去和現(xiàn)在、想象和現(xiàn)實(shí)。在諸如此類(lèi)的畫(huà)作中，夏加爾明顯更喜歡表現(xiàn)精神生活、記憶和神奇的象征，而非描繪現(xiàn)實(shí)。

《窗外的巴黎》現(xiàn)藏于美國(guó)紐約的所羅門(mén)·R.古根海姆博物館。? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?□