穿绿色短袖上衣的自画像
密度板裱布油画,30×24cm,2014
这可以说是一幅向我钟爱的意大利肖像大师莫迪里阿尼致敬的自画像。第一次看到他笔下造型概括天真、用色饱满纯粹的人物时,有种画到我心里去的感觉。我尝试着让莫迪的精神在一个东方人身上发生作用,我拉长了脖子,缩短了额头,抬高了颧骨,还改变了肩膀的轮廓。但奇妙的是,这些变形毫无“违和”感,并没有让我的自画像变得面目全非;相反,我个性里的坚定、幽默和坦白被很好地诠释出来,而——正如莫迪所做的那样——这些的传达并非是通过对眼睛着力的刻画。我的朋友们看到这幅自画像时往往首先会认为我丑化了自己,但仔细看上不过一分钟,他们便会说:“这就是你。”
Self-Portrait in Green T-shirt
Oil on canvas pasted panel, 30×24cm, 2014
This is a self-portrait in honor of my favorite Italian portrait master Modigliani. Laying eyes on his artless and vivid figures at the first time, I felt his paintbrush reached my inmost soul. I tried to let Modi’s spirit work on an Asian girl’s portrait, so I lengthened the neck, shortened the forehead, raised the cheekbones and altered the shape of the shoulders. What is amazing is that such modifications do not look wrong or make my portrait distorted; quite the contrary, my characters of being strong-minded, humorous and honest are well spoken. Moreover – just exactly as what Modi did – such expressions are not achieved by the exerting depiction of eyes. My friends would think I was uglifying myself when they saw the self-portrait at first sight. But within less than a minute, they would say: “This is very you.”
密度板裱布油画,30×24cm,2014
这可以说是一幅向我钟爱的意大利肖像大师莫迪里阿尼致敬的自画像。第一次看到他笔下造型概括天真、用色饱满纯粹的人物时,有种画到我心里去的感觉。我尝试着让莫迪的精神在一个东方人身上发生作用,我拉长了脖子,缩短了额头,抬高了颧骨,还改变了肩膀的轮廓。但奇妙的是,这些变形毫无“违和”感,并没有让我的自画像变得面目全非;相反,我个性里的坚定、幽默和坦白被很好地诠释出来,而——正如莫迪所做的那样——这些的传达并非是通过对眼睛着力的刻画。我的朋友们看到这幅自画像时往往首先会认为我丑化了自己,但仔细看上不过一分钟,他们便会说:“这就是你。”
Self-Portrait in Green T-shirt
Oil on canvas pasted panel, 30×24cm, 2014
This is a self-portrait in honor of my favorite Italian portrait master Modigliani. Laying eyes on his artless and vivid figures at the first time, I felt his paintbrush reached my inmost soul. I tried to let Modi’s spirit work on an Asian girl’s portrait, so I lengthened the neck, shortened the forehead, raised the cheekbones and altered the shape of the shoulders. What is amazing is that such modifications do not look wrong or make my portrait distorted; quite the contrary, my characters of being strong-minded, humorous and honest are well spoken. Moreover – just exactly as what Modi did – such expressions are not achieved by the exerting depiction of eyes. My friends would think I was uglifying myself when they saw the self-portrait at first sight. But within less than a minute, they would say: “This is very you.”