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梵高亲笔信 60万起价 A Van Gogh letter. £600,000.
加价两万 现在是62万 And 20. At £620,000.
有出65万的吗 现在62万 Who will offer me 650? At £620,000.
有人出65万 现在65万 650 is here with Chris. That's 650.
68万 680.
70万 £700,000.
现在是75万 That's £750,000.
各币种相应价
成交 910号 Sold. 910.
我们刚目睹了世界纪录的诞生 75万英镑 You've just seen a world record being set - £750,000!
拍的最贵一封信了 It's the most ever paid for a letter.
这种对梵高的喜爱近乎疯狂 'It's a kind of madness, really, this mania for Van Gogh.'
他是我们最喜爱的画家 He's our favourite artist.
我们一掷千金 却不曾真正了解过他 We spend millions on him. But we don't know that much about him.
文森特·梵·高一生的故事 Not really. Yet the full story of Vincent Van Gogh
值得我们倾听 is a tale worth hearing.
♪ Starry, starry night ♪
文森特·梵·高全传
♪ Paint your palette blue and grey ♪
♪ Look out on a summer's day ♪
♪ With eyes that know the darkness in my soul ♪
如果你想了解梵高把世界 'If you want to see how dramatically the world has taken leave of its senses
翻译 苏打水
带向了怎样的癫狂 when it comes to Vincent Van Gogh.
翻译 咕叽
就来拜访他的故乡 津德尔特 I recommend a visit to his home town of Zundert.
翻译 煜玲
翻译 NoNopig
这是当地一个久负盛名的花卉盛典 This is a famous flower festival they have here.
成千上万的花朵组成花车 And all these floats, made of millions and millions...of flowers,
翻译 33来了
校对 zhanginfo
献给文森特 are dedicated to Vincent.
又有成千上万的人们蜂拥而至 Tens of thousands of people have turned up to see them.
时间轴 壳壳
我也喜欢鲜花 Now I like flowers too,
举办这场盛典投入无数 and the effort it's got into creating these things is unimaginable.
后期 鱼骨头
看看这盛况 I mean look at that. It's fantastic.
总监 苏打水
但可惜 所有这一切 But, unfortunately, all this has nothing,
与真实的文森特·梵·高相去甚远 absolutely nothing, to do with the real Vincent Van Gogh.
文森特是不会喜欢这情景的 Vincent would've hated it.
梵高的父亲是津德尔特的牧师 Van Gogh's father was the preacher here in Zundert,
荷兰归正教会 提奥多卢·梵·高牧师 Pastor Theodorus Van Gogh of the Dutch Reformed Church.
在圣坛下面 可以看见一只小铜碗 If you look down from the pulpit, there's a little brass bowl.
这是梵高1853年受洗用的圣钵 That's the font in which Vincent was christened in 1853.
一个啼哭的红发婴孩 A noisy little boy with red hair.
文森特·威廉·梵·高 Vincent Willem Van Gogh.
全家六个孩子均在这座教堂由老梵高施洗 The first of six children, all christened in this church,
文森特是长子 all by their own father.
这里实际是布拉班特 信奉天主教 'We're actually in Catholic Brabant,
荷兰一小块区域 延伸至比利时 a tiny bit of Holland that pokes into Belgium.'
其实算是比利时 'It's Belgium, really.
梵高一家被包围在天主教徒中 So the Van Goghs were surrounded by Catholics.'
新教徒势力甚微 'The Protestant community here is tiny.'
作为置身异地的布道者 家人间也更为亲密 'It kept them close. They were outcasts together, pioneers.'
我身后那座橘瓦红墙的小屋 That house behind me, the bright yellow one
就是文森特长大的地方 that's the house Vincent grew up in.
当然不是真的房子 Not the real one, but recreated
而是由50万株大丽菊搭起来的 out of half a million dahlias
这里的人喜欢种植花卉 they like growing flowers here in Zundert.
不过他确实曾住在路那头的房子里 But he did actually live a bit up the road, in that house there.
虽然也重建过 That's been rebuilt too,
但却处在原址 but it stands the exacly the place
是文森特度过人生最初16个年头的地方 Vincent spent the first 16 years of his life.
站在这里让人心潮澎湃 'It's rather touching to be here.'
有一件事我来到这里才知道 There're something I didn't know. I didn't realise till I got here,
梵高早期画作 he did an early drawing-
有大约12幅留了下来 there are about 12 of his early drawing left
其中有一幅奇怪的建筑特写 and there's one of this rather strange architectural feature.
像是某个教堂或银行之类的壁柱 It looks like a capital of a church or a bank or something.
但没人知道究竟在哪里 当然我也不例外 And no-one really knew where it was. I certainly didn't now where it was.
等来到这里才发现 Then you come here and realize actually
原来就是路对面津德尔特市政厅 it's a capital on the top of the Zundert town hall across the road.
一定是他坐在房间里 从窗户直望过去 He must've sat in his bedroom, looked straight out of the window
看见面前这根半露壁柱 and seen this pilaster in front of him.
所以这个有趣的壁柱 So it's the first of the drawings that Vincent did
便是梵高描绘窗外景象的最早作品之一 of the view from his bedroom - this funny little pilaster.
这成了他一生的习惯 It's a habit he kept,
无论住在哪里 屋外的景象都会是他的作品 every room he ever stayed in, he'd drawn what's outside.
这里便是一切的起点 And it began here, as everything did.
♪ Starry, starry night ♪
♪ Paint your palette blue and grey ♪
♪ Look out on a summer's day ♪
♪ With eyes that know the darkness in my soul ♪
♪ Shadows on the hills ♪
♪ Sketch the trees and daffodils... ♪
文森特这一名字取自他的叔叔 Vincent had been deliberately named
另一个文森特·梵·高 after his uncle - another Vincent Van Gogh,
一位非常成功的艺术品交易商 a hugely successful art dealer
大家都叫他"森特大叔" whom everyone called Uncle Cent.
梵高十六岁时被送去海牙 'At 16, Vincent was sent to
森特大叔在那里开了一间画廊 The Hague - where Uncle Cent had a gallery.'
他原本也要卖画为生 'He was going to be an art dealer too.'
森特大叔特地为他谋到一份工作 'Vincent had a special post created for him,
在"古比尔"海牙分店做学徒 as an apprentice clerk at the Hague branch of Goupil & Cie,
这是当时欧陆最知名的画廊 the world's most prestigious art franchise,
已经被森特买下 who'd merged with Uncle Cent.'
开始 梵高只是负责杂务 'It was a behind-the-scenes job at first,
处理古比尔大量的国际文书 dealing with Goupil's extensive international paperwork.'
文森特·梵·高1869年至1873年任职于此
结果梵高表现出色 'Amazingly, Van Gogh turned out to be good at this
很快升职为店员 and was soon promoted to front of shop.'
有钱的客户们乘坐马车来到画廊 Rich Hague clients would turn up here in their carriages.
由年轻的梵高负责接待 They'd be met by the teenage Vincent Van Gogh,
陪同各位先生太太进入画廊 who'd escort Sir and Madam inside
依各人口味做推荐 and commend them on their taste
帮他们决定买什么 when they decided on their purchase.
我手中是文森特写给弟弟提奥的信件 This is the three-volume correspondence of Vincent
共三大册 to his brother Theo.
可谓艺术史上 It's the biggest,
最庞大 最有分量 最著名的信札了 heaviest and most celebrated epistolic package in art.
我读过几遍 I've tackled it a couple of times now.
每次都要花几个月时间 It took me several months each go.
梵高这些书信就像他的《向日葵》一样 'Vincent is almost as famous for writing these letters
备受世人关注 as he is for painting Sunflowers.'
信中充满了创造性的思维 'There's so much insight here into his creative thinking.'
第一封是1872年9月从海牙写给提奥的 'But the first letter was just a brief note about the weather
里面只是随便地说了说天气 scribbled to Theo from The Hague in September 1872.'
提奥比文森特小几岁 Theo was a couple of years younger than Vincent,
不过 文森特在这里时 but he also decided to become an art dealer
提奥也想做个画商 while Vincent was here.
他们希望有朝一日能在一起工作 They hoped one day they might work together.
可就在1873年3月17日 But on the 17th of March 1873,
梵高心情阴郁 写信告诉提奥 a rather glum Vincent wrote to Theo
他要去别的地方了 to tell him he was going to be moved.
这是他第二次升职 'It was another promotion.'
因在海牙表现非凡 'He'd done so well in the Hague
他被派到伦敦工作 that he was being sent to London.'
那年梵高20岁 'He was 20.'
1873年5月19日 梵高抵达伦敦维多利亚车站 He arrived at Victoria Station on the 19th of May 1873
很快在巴特西找到住处 and soon found lodgings somewhere in Battersea.
他英语纯正 进步迅速 He spoke decent English. It quickly improved.
才几周便读起济慈[英著名浪漫派诗人] Within weeks, he was reading Keats.
伦敦向梵高扑面而来 London came at him from all sides.
当时 伦敦是世界最大都市 It was the largest city in the world,
四百万人口摩肩擦踵 and four million people had somehow squeezed themselves into it.
看这幅图便知 Here is what it looked like.
古斯塔夫·多雷[法国著名插图画家]笔下的伦敦 This is Gustave Dore's London,
发表于文森特来伦敦前 published just before Vincent got here.
你看这景象 Look at the state of it.
从陆德门山 一直到圣保罗大教堂 This is Ludgate Hill, looking up towards St Paul's.
人山人海 Look at those crowds.
♪ I've got a pal ♪
♪ A regular out an' outer ♪
文森特珍藏有这张画的复本 Vincent had a copy of this and treasured it.
这里你可能也眼熟 新门监狱 You might recognise this image as well. It's Newgate Prison.
二十年后 梵高还记忆犹新 Two decades later, he still hadn't forgotten it.
♪ My old girl ♪
♪ We've been together now for 40 years ♪
♪ And it don't seem a day too much... ♪
海克福德路
文森特称 自己来伦敦的头一年 'Vincent described his first year in London
是一生中最快乐的时光 as the happiest of his life.'
他泛舟泰晤士 参观博物馆 在公园游玩 He went boating on the Thames, visited the museums, the parks.
大伦敦市议会 画家文森特·梵·高(1853-1890) 1873年至1874年居住于此
但真正让他欢欣的是搬进这里 But what really cheered him up was moving here
布里克斯顿 海克福德路87号 to 87 Hackford Road, Brixton,
文森特的房间在顶楼 他的最爱 where Vincent had a room at the top that he loved.
今日的布里克斯顿无需多言 I don't need to tell you what Brixton is today.
亚迪[牙买加国际犯罪组织]之城 危机四伏 It's Yardie country. Dangerous.
但梵高那时不是这样 But it wasn't like that in Vincent's time.
1873年 这是个繁荣的中产阶级小镇 In 1873, this was a prosperous middle class suburb.
1971年前 没人知道文森特在伦敦的故居 No-one knew where Vincent lived in London until 1971,
直到一个痴迷梵高的邮递员 when a postman, a Van Gogh obsessive,
保罗·乔克罗夫特 查到这个地址 called Paul Chalcroft, tracked him down to this house.
由于政府的节电措施 乔克罗夫特处于停工期 Chalcroft was on strike at the time, getting ready for the three-day week,
所以有大把的时间 with lots of hours on his hands.
现在这里住着一位史密斯太太 There's a Mrs Smith living here now.
我能想象出她当时有多惊讶 'And I iamgine it was a heck of a surprise
一个邮差敲响大门 when the striking postman knocked on her door
大伦敦市议会 画家文森特·梵·高(1853-1890) 1873-1874居住于此
告诉她文森特·梵·高曾住在这里 and told her that Van Gogh lived here.
您是史密斯太太吧 You must be Mrs Smith.
你好 早上好 Hello. Good Morning.
-我看到过...-是我 - Do you know I've read... - Yes, I am.
-看到很多关于您...-是吗 - I've read so much about you... - Really?
还有这套房子的故事 and about this house.
-快请进吧 -谢谢 - You're welcome. - Thank you.
我很想知道 I really want to ask you...
里面请 Come through.
那个邮递员过来时的情形怎样 What was it like when the postman turned up.
-那个帅小伙子 -保尔·夏尔克洛夫 - The striking postman. - Paul Chalcroft.
-保尔·夏尔克洛夫 -他当时很兴奋 - Paul Chalcroft - He's very excited, actually.
这是梵高画的吗 Is that one of his?
梵高原创 保尔·夏尔克洛夫临摹的 That's Van Gogh's. And that's Paul Chalcroft's, too.
保尔·夏尔克洛夫
-他的确沉迷于此 -他是... - He was obsessed with lots of these... - He was actually...
他对文森特的生平了如指掌 He knew everything about Vincent from the day he was born till...
他妻子都说 In fact, his wife said,
真不知道把这些梵高的画放在哪里 " I don't know where to put all these pictures drawn by Van Gogh."
她就偷偷放在这里了 She's dropping them behind me.
虽然他人已不在这里 Not like the day was when he was here.
但还是没怎么改变 Well, it'll still be more or less the same.
-您还在楼梯间装上了扶手啊 -没错 - You've fenced in the stairs, haven't you? -Yes.I did.
这是他曾经的卧室 This was the room he slept in.
这间吗 This one here?
对 带两扇窗户这间 Yes. This one here, and two windows.
那些都是颜料 That's all the paintings in there.
-那是《奥维尔的教堂》 -没错 - There's the... "The church at Auvers". - That's right.
也是保尔·夏尔克洛夫临摹的 That's Paul Chalcroft's work again.
您现在还睡这里吗 史密斯太太 Do you sleep here now? Mrs. Smith.
-这是您的卧室吗 -是的 - Is this your bedroom? - Yes. It's my bedroom.
那您是睡在梵高当年的卧房了 So you sleep in the room Van Gogh slept in.
是这样 Yes, I do.
一定很激动吧 换我肯定会 That must be quite exciting. I'll be exciting.
我完全听不到他的呼噜声 I can't hear him snoring at all.
-您真有福气 -是啊 - Lucky you. - Yes.
他睡觉肯定打呼 I bet he did.
他的女房东 乌苏拉·卢瓦耶夫人 His landlady, Mrs Ursula Loyer,
在这里办了一所小学校 ran a small school here.
她也接待房客 She also took lodgers.
文森特曾在古比尔的伦敦分部科芬园工作 Vincent was working in Covent Garden at Goupil's London office.
每日清晨 他步行去工作 Every morning, he walked to work
还特地买了个大礼帽戴上 in a top hat he bought specially -
他觉得这样更像本地人 he thought it made him look more English.
步行至科芬园要花45分钟 This journey to Covent Garden took him 45 minutes.
这一路可不易 And that's not easy.
♪ The wandering minstrel, I ♪
♪ A thing of shreds ♪
梵高曾痴迷速度徒步 Van Gogh was a ridiculously fast walker.
他疾步走过椭圆球场 He shot past the Oval,
就是英国人玩板球运动的场地 where the English play that strange game called cricket.
他讨厌浓雾 这让他很压抑 He didn't enjoy the fog, it depressed him.
河里满是污水 And the river, pumped full of sewage,
散发阵阵恶臭 他只想快快离开 used to stink so badly he hurried across it.
但他喜欢威斯敏斯特桥对面的风景 But he loved this view over Westminster Bridge.
刚建好的国会大楼 泰晤士河沿岸长堤 The Houses of Parliament, just built, the Thames Embankment,
令32英亩的泥沼气象一新 newly reclaimed from 32 acres of mud.
他并未忽视底层人民 He couldn't have missed the poverty.
有个词叫"走访贫民窟" You know that expression "Slumming it".
梵高那个时代伦敦市民常做的事 Slumming was something what Londoners used to do in Vincent's time -
去体验贫民生活的意思 it means going to look at the slums.
最糟糕的几个地方在东郊 The worst ones were in the east end,
怀特查佩尔和贝思纳尔格林一带 Whitechapel, Bethnal Green.
脏乱差 雏妓出没于街巷 Terrifying places - underage prostitutes lurking in the alleys
排污系统破败不堪 垃圾遍布 and an unbuilt sewage system pumping crap into the streets.
你可能不相信 但我还是走下来了 I know you won't believe this, but I really did that.
花了我53分钟 It took me... fifty- fifty-three minutes.
比文森特慢8分钟 That's eight minutes more than Vincent.
他每天要来回两次 And he used to do it twice a day -
步行上班 步行回家 strolling into work, strolling back.
工作地点在那里 古比尔画廊 He worked just there, at Goupil's,
现在被改成了一家面馆 which is a noodle restaurant now.
主要是卖复制画作 一年能挣90英镑 It's basically selling prints and earning £90 a year.
这笔薪水在当时是很可观的 It's actually a good salary in those days,
几乎是普通工人工资的三倍 about three times the average payment for a labourer.
♪ The wandering minstrel, I ♪
♪ A thing of shreds ♪
♪ And patches... ♪
梵高最喜欢的英国作家是狄更斯 Van Gogh's favourite English writer was Dickens.
伦敦商会 小说家查尔斯·狄更斯(1812-1870) 居住于此地
他反复阅读过狄更斯的多数作品 He read most of the novels, and then reread them.
总是在信件中引用狄更斯的话语 He was always quoting Dickens in his letters,
狄更斯的悲天悯人对其影响深刻 gobbling up Dickens's sympathy for the London poor,
《荒凉山庄》 查尔斯·狄更斯
形容枯槁的雾都孤儿沿街乞讨 all those blighted Oliver Twists scrounging in the streets.
《雾都孤儿》 博兹[狄更斯笔名]
狄更斯为文森特呈现了人间的悲剧 Dickens opened Vincent's eyes to modern human misery.
1870年 狄更斯与世长辞 Dickens died in 1870,
就在文森特来此之前 just before Vincent got here.
为了祭奠他的辞世 To commemorate his death,
梵高最喜爱的一位维多利亚时代悲情画师 one of Vincent's favourite victorian sentimentalists
卢克·法尔兹 Luke Fildes
创作了一幅让人难以忘怀的佳作 produced an unforgettable image of Dickens's empty chair,
狄更斯被拖离书桌的空座椅 pushed away from his desk.
文森特买下了这幅画 Vincent bought this illustration
并从中体会到 一张空荡座椅 and learnt from it how an empty chair
所表现出的深切哀思 can stand in so poignantly for a missing person.
这一画面弥久挥之不去 Haunted by this image,
于是 文森特自己也成为 Vincent went on to become
以空荡座椅为主题的 the greatest painter of empty chairs
史上最伟大画师 that's ever been.
♪ And to your humours changing ♪
♪ I tune my supple song ♪
哈克福德路
文森特在布里斯顿的女房东 Vincent's landlady in Brixton, Mrs Loyer,
卢瓦耶太太有个女儿 叫尤金妮 had a daughter, Eugenie,
她当时19岁 比文森特小1岁 who was 19, a year younger than Vincent.
也许这才是文森特在伦敦第一年 Perhaps the chief reason
能过得如此开心的主要原因 why he enjoyed his first year in London so much
尤金妮也在这里 was because Eugenie was here.
文森特对她一见钟情 如痴如醉 Vincent fell for her all the way. He was besotted.
但奇怪的是 What's extraordinary is that
在近乎一年中 他都将这份感情藏于心底 he didn't tell her he was in love with her for almost a year.
从未表白 He kept it bottled up.
任由其蚀心痛骨 He let it fester.
只言片语都不曾提及 Vincent never said a word.
最终 感情曝露之后 When it finally came out,
尤金妮惊诧之余告诉梵高 an amazed Eugenie informed him
她已经与一位前房客私定终身 that she was already secretly engaged to a previous lodger -
一个叫塞缪尔·普劳曼的工程师 an engineer called Samuel Ploughman.
对文森特来说 如同晴天霹雳 The effect on Vincent of this firm and terrible rejection
无疑是一个致命打击 was devastating.
被尤金妮拒绝后 When Eugenie rejected him,
文森特和其它失恋者一样 Vincent did what many before him have done
心灰意冷下皈依于宗教 and will always do - he found religion.
《暗夜诵经》
信仰对其并非难事 He didn't look into very far,
这是他与生俱来的特质 It was already there in his blood,
也受其成长环境影响 his upbringing.
梵高开始在夜晚阅读圣经 戒掉了烟斗 He started reading the Bible at nights, puffing away his pipe,
下班后早早回家 coming home early from work.
参加象堡[位于伦敦南部]的救世军聚会 He'd go to Salvation Army meetings at Elephant and Castle,
"救市军"为当时伦敦一宗教慈善组织
流连于施舍处和祈祷厅 hang around soup kitchens and prayer halls,
沉浸在失恋的抑郁中无法自拔 sinking ever deeper into a melancholy love stupor.
结果他工作表现太差 His work was now going so badly
老板决定再次将他调职 这次是去巴黎 that his boss's decided to transfer him again, to Paris.
这是巴黎古比尔总部旧址 This is the old Goupil HQ in Paris,
文森特被任命为画品主管 where Vincent was made head of pictures.
这个位置他本不够格 He didn't deserve it,
所以 这只是为了给他增强自信的 so it could only had been intended as a deliberate confidence booster.
此处正在出售 已经变成了一个阁楼 It's for sale now. It's been turned into a loft.
您来到的是加莱里·古比尔... So you're coming into Galerie Goupil...
任职画品部主管时 As head of pictures,
文森特还曾是这里的首席销售 Vincent was the chief salesman here.
他的工作方式本应该是 The way it was supposed to work,
一味迎合高端客户 was that Vincent would greet the rich clients,
恭维其品味 commend them on their taste,
将画廊最昂贵的画作推销出去 and sell them the most expensive stuff on the walls.
虽然简单易行 但他并没有这样 Simple, but it didn't work out like that.
相反 浴火重生的文森特质疑客户品味 The new, religious Vincent chose instead to question their taste,
劝说他们选购正统的景观画作 argue with them and suggest they buy some proper landscapes
而不是遍及画廊的做作而为之流 instead of the salon nonsenses that'll hanging all around them here.
那是巴黎艺术界的美好时代 It was a fascinating time in the Parisian art world.
在文森特被调来的几个月前 A few months before Vincent was transfered here,
一批被尖锐批评人士 a bunch of disaffected artistic rebels
嘲讽为"印象画派"的激进叛逆画师 whom cruel critics had dubbed the Impressionists
刚刚结束其首次画展 had just opened and closed their first show.
但文森特醉心于研读圣经 But Vincent was too immersed in his new obsession with the Bible
以至无暇顾及 to take any notice of them whatsoever.
文森特在蒙马特区找到一个房间 Vincent had found a room up here in Montmartre.
蒙马特意为"殉难者之山" Montmartre means "The hill of martyrs" -
而殉道正是当时萦绕于他内心的想法 and a martyr was definitely what he now fancied himself to be.
于是 每天晚上他都在那间小屋内 He spent every evening up in that little room,
阅读圣经 痴痴祈祷 reading the Bible and praying feverishly.
"把你那些书都扔了吧" "Get rid of all your books,"
他对提奥写道 "留下圣经就够了" He wrote to Theo, "And keep only the Bible."
画廊希望员工圣诞期间在岗 Goupil employees were expected to work over Christmas,
这是一年中最佳的销售期 it was their busiest selling period of the year.
然而 文森特没有通知任何人 But without telling anybody,
就在那年圣诞擅离职守 Vincent bunked off at Christmas that year,
回荷兰与家人过了圣诞 and spent it in Holland with his family.
回到巴黎时 When he returned to Paris,
他被老板炒了鱿鱼 he was summoned into the boss's office and asked to resign.
-谢谢 -谢谢 - Merci. - Merci
古比尔高层慷慨给他三个月过渡期 Goupil's gave him three months' notice, which was generous of them.
于是 文森特阅读巴黎的英文报纸 Vincent had been reading the English papers in Paris,
在求职版寻找相关信息 looking through the classifieds for a job.
终于 在拉姆斯盖特谋得一份工作 He eventually found one, here in Ramsgate,
给孩子们教授法语 德语 teaching French, German,
以及算数和听写 arithmetic and dictation to young boys
楼里这所学校 at a school opened in this building
1853-1890 文森特·梵·高曾于1876年执教于此
由威廉·斯托克斯创办 by a Mr William Stokes.
这份工作只提供食宿 不发放工资 This job was unpaid - just board and lodging.
但教书是他一直想从事的工作 But he was teaching, and that pressed Vincent's vocational buzzer.
这所学校很破旧 The school was crummy.
如同狄更斯笔下那般破败 Dickensian, one might say.'
学生们睡在腐朽的木地板上 The floors of bedroom in which the boys slept were rotten,
连窗户也摇摇欲坠 the windows broken.
而最令文森特头疼的就是臭虫 And Vincent complained desperately about the bedbugs.
他透过学校的窗户画了几幅风景画 He did a couple of drawings out of the school window
就是这个景色 of this view.
这些画都很讨人喜欢 They're rather delightful.'
可斯托克斯根本靠不住 Stokes turned out to be entirely unreliable.
仅仅两个月后 Just two months after he got here,
文森特便得知这所学校将会停办 Vincent learned that the school was closing
迁至伦敦郊区的艾尔沃思 and moving to Isleworth, a London suburb,
斯托克斯答应在那里给文森特一份体面的工作 where Stokes promised Vincent a proper job.
于是他决定步行去艾尔沃思 Vincent decided to walk there
途中看望他在韦灵教书的妹妹 and to visit his sister on the way, who was teaching in Welling,
这段路程长达100英里 a mere 100 miles away.
文森特三天后便走到了他妹妹家 Vincent got there in three days.
♪ I've got a pal, a regular out an' outer ♪
♪ She's a dear old gal .Oh, I'll tell you all about her... ♪
文森特步行并非为了节省路费 This walking business wasn't just a case of saving on rail fares.
内心日益滋长的宗教狂热 He was driven to do it by the religious mania
促使他身体力行 that was growing in him.
当时梵高在读约翰·布尼安的《天路历程》 He'd been reading Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.
对他影响颇大 It affected him immediately.
他并非身无分文的荷兰教师 He wasn't a penniless Dutch teacher
靠走路去看望妹妹 walking to see his sister.
他是位虔诚的朝圣者 He was a humble pilgrim
想方设法让生活充满苦难 making his difficult way in life.
文森特一直都坚持这个想法 It's a feeling Vincent never lost.
时至今日 文森特表现出来 And did any man ever show as much affection
对鞋子的感情仍旧无人可比 for his trusty boots as Vincent, years later, went on to show?'
♪ There ain't a lady living in the land ♪
♪ As I'd swap for my dear old Dutch ♪
♪ There ain't a lady living in the land ♪
♪ As I'd swap for my dear old Dutch ♪
斯托克斯在艾尔沃思办学依旧失败 Stokes's school in Isleworth turned out to be another no-hoper.
艾尔沃思教会公告板
但特威克南路那边有另一所学校 But just down the Twickenham Road was another boys' school,
由托马斯·斯莱德·琼斯负责 run by the Reverend Thomas Slade Jones -
他是公理会牧师 a congregational minister,
第一个真正理解文森特宗教狂热的人 the first man ever to understand fully Vincent's religious passion.'
文森特一生仅有的几位重要人物之一 The Reverend was one of the few heroes of Vincent's life.
他让梵高在校内任职 支付薪水 He gave him a job at this school and paid him.
就是在这所房子里 It was in this house that
文森特痴狂阅读圣经 对宗教愈加狂热 Vincent's frantic Bible reading and growing religious mania
终于 他寻到了解脱 finally found an outlet.'
梵高决心成为一名传教士 He decided he wanted to be some sort of a missionary.
教学对他远远不够 Teaching wasn't enough for him.
他想一路北上 进入蒙昧的厂房 He thought about going up north to work among the poor
为劳苦大众布道 in the dark satanic mills.
然而 伦敦就有很多贫民 But there was quite enough poverty to be getting on with in London,
宣真布道的工作无处不在 where a man with a religious mission could find plenty to do.
这些是特恩哈姆绿色公理教会 These are the minute books
1876年的纪录簿 of the Turnham Green Congregational Church for 1876.'
纪录簿
Vincent Van Gof
梵高被任命为 Look who's in them named as
教工兼助理牧师 a new church worker and assistant preacher, Mr. Van Gogh.
Mr.Vincent Van Gof
但都拼错了 Look at the spelling. It's wrong.
所以他开始自称文森特 That's why he began calling himself Vincent -
他厌倦了英国人总是拼错他的名字 he was fed up with the English getting his name wrong.
"理查森先生提议 斯坦布里奇先生附议 "As Mr.Richardson proposed, Mr Stembridge seconded
Mr.Vincent Van Gof
决定任命文森特·梵·高[GOGH拼为GOF] that Mr.Vincent Van Gof, spelt G-O-F,
为工作人员" be accepted as a co-worker."
可以想象 斯莱德·琼斯牧师 The Reverend Slade Jones,
伦敦豪恩斯洛自治市 梵高围地
肯定整日被梵高缠着 pestered mightily, one imagines, by Mr.Van Gogh -
而梵高也确实如此 and, boy, could Mr.Van Gogh pester -
最终说服他让自己 was finally persuaded to allow Vincent
跨跃绵羊与牧人[指世俗和宗教]的宗教鸿沟 to step across that crucial religious divide
成为一名神职人员 that separates the sheep from the shepherds.
1876年10月29日 On the 29th of October 1876,
一个秋高气爽 阳光普照的星期日 on a sunny autumn Sunday,
文森特 在伦敦西郊 Vincent rose before the faithful
里士满卫理公会教堂里 在众信徒面前 at the Richmond Methodist Chapel in suburban west London
完成了他人生中第一次布道 and delivered his first sermon.
布道词还保留着 We still have it.
我们可以准确知道 We know exactly what he said
文森特对他第一批教众说了些什么 to his first congregation.
"这是一份古老而诚挚的信念 "It's an old belief and good belief
人生就是一段天路历程" that our life is a pilgrim's progress."
"我们生来本是陌生人..." "that we are strangers on the earth..."
这次布道冗长繁复 It's long, well-meaning,
枯燥无趣 repetitive, boring.
每隔几句便引用若干圣经原文 Every few sentences, it resorts to thick bundles of biblical quotation
我们听来准会昏昏欲睡 that would've left many of us dozing in the aisles.
让我觉得最出众的地方在于他用的全是英语 The most impressive thing about it for me is that it's in English,
文森特以极快的速度掌握了这门语言 a language which he'd mastered so quickly.
这布道词肯定是有人帮他写的 He must've had help writing it.
也许就是斯莱德·琼斯牧师 Perhaps from the Reverance Slade Jones.
"朝圣者行走着 权杖在手" "On the road walks a pilgrim, staff in hand."
"他已行走多时..." "He's been walking for a good long while..."
因为我们都没有那么多时间听完 Since none of us has time to listen to it all,
所以简而言之 此次布道的主题是朝圣之旅 let me tell you that its main theme was pilgrimage.
生之苦 路之遥 Life is tough, the road is long,
但对上帝的信仰将帮助我们度过苦难 but faith in God will see us through.
绘画大师文森特·梵·高曾于1876年居住于此
便如一语成谶 And it all feels sneakily autobiographical.
上帝与我们同在
之后我们会发现 历经几次信仰波折 Further ahead in our story, after some turbulent religious times,
这位曾在此处第一次布道的教士 the preacher who stood up here and delivered his first sermon
断然摒弃了信仰 对其嗤之以鼻 was to give up religion rather fiercely and claim to despise it.
《世界之光》
然而 了解真正的梵高必须清楚一点 But one of the keys to understanding the real Van Gogh
信仰一旦融入了他的画作 is to realise that once all this has soaked into his art,
便永远无法抹掉 挥之不去 it could never be removed. Never.
那年圣诞节 文森特回到了家乡 That Christmas, Vincent went home to his family.
他表示节后返回伦敦 He said he'd return to London after the holidays.
但却没有 But he never did.
无论对英国的同事许过什么诺言 Whatever promises he'd made to his new flock in England,
家人都迫使他一改初衷 his family forced him to break.'
圣诞节后 文森特没有回到艾尔沃思 Instead of returning to Isleworth after Christmas,
而被派到一个叫做多德雷赫特的小镇 Vincent was packed off to this cute little town, Dordrecht,
家人为他在这谋到一个新职业 where his family had come up with a new calling for him -
图书销售员 he was going to be a book seller.
老板叫布拉特 His boss was to be a Mr. Braat.
书店就在那间咖啡店现在的位置 And the book shop stood right there where that cafe is.
事实上 不难想象 Actually I can easily imagine Vincent
文森特肯定是个古怪的图书销售员 as an eccentric book dealer.
家人印象中 他总是埋头苦读 His family always remembered him with his nose stuck in a book.
之后饱含激情将其展现于画作 And later, he'd go on to paint books with such love and excitement.
一本书无论看上去多么破旧 It didn't matter how humble a book was,
在文森特的画笔下总会熠熠生辉 Vincent's art always stressed its preciousness.
我认识的图书销售员 The book sellers I know
总是邋里邋遢 脾气古怪 tend to be scruffy, cranky, unwashed types,
沉浸在自己的世界里 像文森特一样 lost in their own world, just like Vincent.'
他会戴着英式大礼帽坐在角落里 He'd sit in a corner wearing his English top hat,
像其他图书销售员一样 不理会顾客 ignoring the customers - as book sellers do -
一心想着自己 and busying himself with
在多德雷赫特设立的伟大目标 remarkable task he'd set himself here in Dordrecht.
要知道 文森特能流利地说四国语言 Vincent, remember, spoke four languages fluently,
他还打算将圣经同时 and he decided to produce a translation of
译成这四种语言的对照版 the Bible in all of them simultaneously -
荷兰语 法语 德语 英语 Dutch, French, German and English.
他将一张纸分为四栏 He divided his paper in four columns
逐字逐句将圣经一并译成四种语言 and inched his way through the Bible in four languages at once.
这是若干年后他画的父亲那本《圣经》 This is a painting he did some years later of his father's Bible.'
这本《圣经》至今仍在津德尔特使用 It's still being used in Zundert.
卖书终究不是个出路 The book-selling job didn't work out, of course.
文森特依旧想从事神职工作 Vincent was still determined to join the church,
像他父亲和祖父那样 like his father and his grandfather.
阿姆斯特丹大学有一门六年制神学课程 Amsterdam University had a six-year theology course,
只要文森特通过拉丁语和希腊语考试 and Pastor Theodorus fixed it for his son to get on it...
经父亲疏通后他便可以入学 providing he passed some exams in Latin and Greek.'
但在这两门功课上 文森特显得无可救药 Vincent, alas, turned out to be unusually hopeless at both of them.'
阿姆斯特丹大学
阿姆斯特丹也有烦心事 Something unsettling happened here in Amsterdam
听着就不舒服 Something I find it disturbing.
要是功课不好 If Vincent's studies weren't going well,
文森特就会用藤条惩罚自己 he used to punish himself by picking up a cudgel
抽打自己背部直至出血 and beating himself across the back until he bled.
寒冷的夜晚 他常故意很晚回家 And on particularly cold nights, he used to come home late deliberately,
结果大门都锁了 so that the door to the house would be locked
他就只能在外过夜 冻得瑟瑟发抖 and he'd be forced to spend the night outside, shivering.
这些都是他保持终生的的怪癖 These were weird habits, and perhaps they were habits he never lost.
文森特没出现在神学课上 他放弃了 Vincent never made it on to the theology course. He dropped out.
现在 对他这样不合格人士 The only religious calling
开放的教职就只剩下传教士了 still open to someone as unqualified as him
这是最底层的神职岗位 was to become a missionary - the lowest of the low.
比利时一个叫莱肯的地方 A place called Laeken in Belgium
有个布道学校 had a training school for evangelists,
当然 他仍没被录取 which he failed to get into, of course.
但学校里有个非常和蔼的教师 But a kindly teacher at this school,
彼得森牧师大人 记住他的名字 the Reverend Peterson - remember that name,
他喜欢梵高身上的一些特质 liked something about him
给他安排了一段见习期 and arranged for Vincent to be given a trial period,
派往臭名昭著的博里纳日矿区传教 ministering to the miners in the notorious Borinage.
大家惯称博里纳日一带 The Borinage's geographic nickname hereabouts
为"黑土地" is the Black Earth Country.
一个遍地矿渣和坑口的烂矿场 It's a bleak industrial stretch of slag heaps and mine workings
荒芜在法国和比利时之间 straggling the border between France and Belgium,
两国均受其所累 spoiling the land on both sides.
他在百科全书中查找博里纳日 He looked up the Borinage in an encyclopaedia.
里面说 And this encyclopaedia informed him
这是个欢乐的矿工大社区 this was a happy working community populated
友善的矿工们每天下井 by a race friendly miners who descended into the earth every day
信仰虔诚 民风淳朴 content to the knowledge that they were being useful and serving God.
但这只是百科全书的说辞 But that's in the encyclopaedia.
现实生活中 博里纳日就是人间地狱 In real life, the Borinage was hell on earth.
远在布鲁塞尔的矿主大发其财 While the mine owners back in Brussels were coining it,
在这片贫穷的黑土地上 the poor sods dark here
人们过着惨无人道的生活 were leading some of the grimmest lives available to man
就在这块所谓文明的欧洲 in so-called civilised Europe.
作为传教士 文森特的职责有两块 Vincent's duty as a preacher were twofold.
在瓦斯梅斯 他住在我身后的粉红小屋里 Here in Wasmes, where he lodged in the interesting pink house behind me,
文森特·梵·高(1853-1890)
这里还有个被改建的舞厅 there was also a converted dance hall
临时用作新教的礼拜堂 that was used for a makeshift Protestant chapel.
文森特就在那里向矿工及其家属布道 Vincent preached there to the few miners' who turned up and their families,
宣讲其人所皆知的冗长教文 and he'd deliver his notoriously long sermons.
他还要逐个造访矿工家庭 He would also do the rounds of the miners' houses
指导功课 共享福音 and conduct Bible classes there - communal Gospel readings.
因此 他对矿工生活也有了彻底了解 Thus he found out exactly how the miners were living.
他也被深深震撼 And it appalled him.
值得注意的是 文森特还有个特质 There's a trait where you need to keep an eye on with Vincent.
内心中那不断地涌起的强烈冲动 It's a powerful urge, a recurring one,
伤害自己 to hurt himself.
除了指导矿工们研读圣经 He wanted to do more with the miners
他还想为这些人做更多的事情 than just conduct their Bible classes.
同样 他也希望 He needed also...
分担他们的苦难 to share their misery.
于是他向众人分发自己的衣食 So he began giving away his food,
令自己食不果腹 衣不遮体 and his clothes too. Starving himself, shivering in the cold,
尽如矿友一般 just like them.
他甚至不再洗澡 He even stopped washing
非要让自己像矿工一样乌黑 so that he too like the miners, was stained a permanent black.
不管这个社区曾经有多糟糕 Now, even in this community, grim though it was,
牧师仍旧值得信赖 the preacher was still someone you looked up to.
这栋房子的主人德尼夫人 Mrs. Denee, the landlady of the house here,
抱怨梵高不洗澡 complained about him not washing.
他回答说 "以斯帖 别纠缠这些细枝末节了" "Oh, Esther" He replied, "Don't worry about the details."
"这事儿在天堂一点也不重要" "They don't matter in heaven."
文森特说服一个老矿工带他下井 Vincent persuaded one of the older miners to take him down into a pit
他曾致信提奥 绘声绘色描述了这次经历 and he described the experience in a particular evocative letter to Theo.
"在矿井下" "Down in the mine shaft,
"作业区就像是个蜂房 the diggings were arranged like a beehive
一个接一个的狭小采掘洞 one cramped chamber next to another,
每个小洞都有个悲惨的黝黑身影 inside each of which, a pathetic black figure
在矿壁上挖着" would be picking away at the walls."
"挖啊挖 挖啊挖" "Pick, pick, pick."
文森特还惊讶地发现下面有马匹 Vincent was surprised to find horses down here,
这些可怜的动物 tragic beasts fated to spend their days
整天拉着沉重的矿车出出进进 trudging backwards and forwards pulling the carts.
那里竟然还有八岁大小的孩子 There were eight years' kids as well,
他们身形瘦小 可以挤进任何矿洞 small enough to squeeze into any hole.
我一度不理解为何向博里纳日派传教士 I was wondering why missionaries were being sent to the Borinage at all?
又不是遥远的刚果 布鲁塞尔仅数小时路程 I mean it's hardly the deepest Congo and Brussels is only a few hours away.
在埃米尔·左拉的《萌芽》中 我有了答案 I found the answer here, in Germinal by Emile Zola.
这是有史以来最好的矿工题材小说 It's the finest mining novel ever written,
故事就发生在法属博里纳日 and it's set on the French side of the Borinage.
翻到第45页 Read page 45,
你们会发现这里竟然还有女矿工 and you'll see there were women down here too.
"因为她们的身躯娇小 'With their smaller bodies,
所以也能挤进更小的空间中 they too could squeeze into tighter spaces.'
但是因为矿井中非常热 她们穿的不多" 'But it was hot, and they didn't wear much.'
在左拉笔下 有个矿工经过黑暗的角落 Zola describes how a miner, coming around a dark corner,
刚好碰到一个年轻女孩的诱人景象 encountered the midst tempting sight of one of these young girls,
她跪趴在地 臀部正对着他 down on her hands and knees, with her back to him.
我不想再说下去了 I won't go on.
这就是他们送传教士去博里纳日的原因 But this is why they sent missionaries to the Borinage:
为了消除滥交和罪恶 to preach against promiscuity and sin.
这是真的 'And it's true -
这些矿井中遇到的每一个爬行姿态 every slither of symbolism you encounter in these mines
都感觉是人间炼狱 feels satanic and hellish.'
要记得 文森特在这里只是见习 Remember Vincent was on trial here,
他的教职是临时的 his appointment as a preacher was temporary.
他想要续约 但这取决于他的表现 He wanted it renewed, but it depended on his performance.
六个月后 After he been here about six months,
布鲁塞尔派人来视察他的工作 they sent someone down from Brussels to inspect him.
罗谢·德乌牧师 The Reverend Roche Dieu was his name,
他名字法语意思是"上帝之石" "Roche Dieu" in French means "The Rock of God".
名字非常唬人 A terrifying name.
就是这块唬人的"上帝之石" And this terrifying Roche Dieu
发现文森特在挨饿 而且肮脏粗鲁 discovered Vincent starving, filthy, unkempt,
疯狂到与矿工为伍 manically identifying with the miners,
于是他建议将文森特解雇 and recommended that he be sacked.
罗谢·德乌牧师称 文森特自轻自贱 Vincent's example, reported Roche Dieu, was a bad one.
梵高不知所措 整个人都垮掉了 Vincent was devastated, absolutely devastated.
此前已被心上人无情拒绝 He'd already been brutally rejected in love,
而他奉献甚多的教堂 and now the Church, to which he'd given so much,
又一次拒绝了他 was also rejecting him.
待内心打击稍稍平复 As soon as he'd shaked out some of the shock,
他旋即开始另一次不可理喻的步行之旅 he set off on another of his absurd walks.
这次他徒步去布鲁塞尔 耗时超过一周 This time, all the way to Brussels. It took him over a week.
在这里遇到了莱肯的老上司 And he cornered one of his old superiors from Laeken -
善良的彼得森牧师大人 the kindly Reverend Peterson.
基于某种难以揣测的原因 加之天性使然 And for some unknowable, instinctive, curious reason,
文森特随身带有一批画作 Vincent took with him to Brussel a batch of the drawings
题材便是博里纳日的矿工 he'd been making of the Borinage miners.
这些画就像是博里纳日 They looked as if they've been scrawled
沟壑纵横的黑色土地真实写照 out of crude black bits of the Borinage itself,
粗鄙 笨拙 raw, clumsy.
他已经27岁 但绘画技巧还跟孩子一样 He's already 27 and he has the drawing skills of a child.
但彼得森牧师从中看出了深层次的内涵 But Reverend Peterson saw something here
他鼓励文森特继续绘画 and encouraged Vincent to go on.
画中确有深意 对吧 And there is something, isn't there?
我得说 幸亏有好心的彼得森牧师 Thank God, say I, for the kindly Reverend Peterson.
要不是他 文森特可能至此仍旧 Because without him, Vincent might still be in two minds today
对其真正使命犹豫不决 about his true calling.
于是 他又回到博里纳日 He came back here to the Borinage
遮遮掩掩地过了整整一年 and prevaricated some more for a whole year.
但最终 就在这间自我囚禁 But finally, in this lonely little miner's house
与世隔绝的矿工小屋里 in which he'd holed up,
文森特·梵·高 决心做个艺术家 Vincent Van Gogh concluded he should be an artist.
谢天谢地 Hallelujah.
他终于找到了目标 He knew at last what he wanted to become,
但没法在这里实现 but he couldn't do it here.
矿区没有画作借鉴 There was no art here to set him an example.
他明白 应该回到 He knew that he had to get back
自己心中的"绘画之都" to what he called "The land of pictures".
在博里纳日挣扎两年后 And after two years in the Borinage,
他突然决定返回布鲁塞尔 he decided abruptly to return to Brussels.
1880年10月 文森特搬至布鲁塞尔 We can't show you the little room above a cafe
我们已无法为你展示 into which Vincent moved in Brussels
他在那个咖啡馆楼上的小住所 when he turned up here in October 1880.
因为这里已被改建为一座铁路桥 It's been modernised into a railway bridge.
但我能展示比那更有价值的东西 But I can show you something better than that.
就是这个 1860年代查尔斯·巴格 I can show you this. It's a self-help book for artists
首次出版的画家自学读物 published originally in the 1860s by Charles Bargue.
当年卖画时 文森特应该知道这本书 Vincent would've known it from his days as an arts dealer.
如今身在布鲁塞尔 And now in Brussels,
他开始认认真真地学习绘画 he began dutifully to work his way through it.
巴格的学习理念 The idea of Bargue
在于通过大量临摹提高绘画水平 is that you copy one page after another, learning as you go.
这是种简单机械模仿 It's a mechanical slog.
这种方式并不适合所有人 但很适合文森特 It wouldn't suit everyone, but it suited Vincent.
从他的画中可以看出 He was, as we'll be seeing
只是简单几笔勾勒便可以胜似原作 throughout the artistic helter-skelter ride that now lies ahead of us,
临摹是他的天赋 an instinctive copyist.
他在布鲁塞尔待了半年多 He stayed in Brussels for over six months.
大家建议他去街那边的艺术学院深造 Everyone advised him to join the Academy of Arts of the road from here.
但文森特不愿意 But Vincent was reluctant.
他清楚自己进学校会有什么结果 He knew what he was like in classroom situations.
这才是他的学校 This was his academy.
但你会问 But you'll be wondering
这个有自虐倾向的失败传教士 how this failed preacher with a talent for self-flagellation
在布鲁塞尔如何应付生活 paid his way in Brussels.
这可是个消费颇高的大都市 It's not a city where a little goes a long way.
咖啡馆楼上那间小屋月租就有50法郎 The small room above the Cafe was 50 francs a month.
还得吃饭 买绘画材料 There was food to buy, materials.
谢谢 Merci.
事实上 The fact is
文森特的父亲一直在资助他 that Vincent's father was still sending him money.
听着有点没劲了吧 It isn't very impressive, is it?
年近三十 居然还在啃老 27 years old and still scrounging off his parents.
父亲提奥多卢牧师每月给他60法郎 Pastor Theodorus was sending him 60 francs a month.
随后又莫名地加到100法郎 And then suddenly, for no obvious reason, this went up to 100 francs.
后来文森特才知道 多出的40法郎 It was only later that Vincent found out the extra 40 francs
是他弟弟提奥给的 were coming from his brother, Theo.
提奥来巴黎两年 从事艺术品买卖 Theo had been in Paris for two years working as an art dealer,
并小有名气 making a name for himself.
或许这世上只有提奥一人 Theo was perhaps the only man on God's Earth
赞成文森特成为画家的决定 who welcomed Vincent's decision to become an artist.
当文森特立志做画后 As soon as that decision was made,
提奥便开始资助他 he began sending Vincent money,
直至文森特去世 and would continue to do so for the rest of Vincent's life.
这里是埃顿 荷兰布拉班特省一个小镇 This is Etten, a Dutch village in Brabant,
这里曾经景色宜人 that was once so pretty.
看到这个停车场了吗 以前就是梵高的家 See this car park? That's where the Van Goghs used to live.
一幅温馨之作 父亲的传教所 Vincent left such a sweet drawing of his father's parsonage.
看着让我心酸 It breaks my heart to look at it.
提奥多卢牧师从津德尔特搬到此地 Pastor Theodorus had been moved here just up the road from Zundert.
1881年 文森特也来到这里 In 1881, Vincent turned up
原因明了 却不甚光彩 for inglorious and obvious reasons.
他穷困潦倒 又得伸手向家人求助 He was broke and needed once again to scrounge from his family
因为 他已决心成为画家 now that he'd decided to become an artist.
沿着这条环路 And there's a cycle route you can go on now
我们可以经过一些 that takes you through some of the places he drew
梵高早期尝试作画的景点 as he launched his great struggle to conquer the pencil.
当地研究梵高历史的马丁·门登 I'm wobbling round it in a company of
陪同我顺着小径骑了一圈 a local Van Gogh historian Martin Monden.
他对梵高在埃顿的一切都了如指掌 He knows everything there is to know about Van Gogh in Etten.
这就是梵高在埃顿画过的那棵树吗 So this is the famous tree Vincent drew when he was in Etten?
是的 作品名为《果园》 Yes, it was called The Orchard.
我们称它为杀人树 We call it The Murder Tree.
因为树龄已近350年 That means it is close to 350 years old.
当文森特从博里纳日归来 When Vincent came here after the Borinage,
在比利时与矿友饱经磨难后 this difficult time he had amongst the miners in Belgium,
就是在这里 this was the first place
他第一次决心当个画家 非常重要的地方 he decided to be an artist. Very important.
1860年代 他画了许多作品 Well, he made a lot of drawings during the 60'
梵高在这里一直住到1881年底 and he was here till December 1881.
-马丁 这里的景色我认识 -怎么 - So, Martin, I recognise that view. - Yes?
那是"双塔" 对吧 That's The Two Towers, yeah?
正是梵高笔下的"双塔" That's The Two Towers with the drawing by Van Gogh.
画的是暴风雨前的景色 The landscape is the rising thunderstorm.
现在成街心环岛了 It's a roundabout now.
还栽满了向日葵 Yes, and a... a roundabout with sunflowers.
这就是那个当年阡陌交通 This would'v been the place that before was full of fields,
人们劳作 工棚凌乱的地方吧 people digging, labourers' cottages?
对 街道狭小 That's right. It was a very small, narrow street
两旁都是小房子 with, on both sides, small houses.
有农夫的 也有矿工的 Farmers' houses and the diggers lived here
这些都在梵高的画中有所体现 which were drawn by Van Gogh.
我想 这些精美画作有一部分 I think some of these beautiful drawings here
是描绘人们劳作的 were the drawings of people working.
火堆旁的男人 矿工 收土豆的农夫 A man by the fire, the diggers, people gathering potatoes.
都是在这里完成的吗 All done around here? This area?
是的 都在附近 All around here, yes.
我知道右边那个是他父亲的教堂 I recognise his father's church. Of course, that's the one on the right.
对 右边那个 Yes. The right-hand church
那是归正会礼拜堂 and it's the Christian Reformed Church.
至少它没什么变化 其他的都变了 At least it hasn't changed very much. Everything else has.
还是120年前的原貌 只是牧师住所拆了 It's the same like 120 years ago, only the parsonage is gone.
还建了街心环岛 And the roundabout has come.
是的 Yes. That's right.
在埃顿 文森特又碰到一件烦心事 Something horrible happened to Vincent here in Etten.
表姐凯·弗斯丧夫 His cousin, Kee Vos, a widow with a baby boy,
带着孩子来这里避暑 came to spend the summer in the parsonage,
文森特偏偏又爱上了她 and Vincent inevitably fell in love with her.
身着黑衣的寡妇 对他有致命的诱惑 Women in black, widows, were a weakness of his.
他无法抑制对凯的爱恋 When he could no longer contain his passion for Kee
于是向她表白 and blurted out how he felt about her,
回答是致命的一击 she dealt him and his love of widows a mortal blow.
她说 "不 毫无可能" "No, no, never," She replied.
绝情之词无法忘怀 他反复咀嚼玩味 Words he couldn't forget and kept quoting.
"不 不 毫无可能" '"No, no, never."'
最后被文森特昏头错解为"有可能"' Stupidly, Vincent took this as a "Maybe".
他跟随凯去了阿姆斯特丹 He followed her to Amsterdam,
赶到她家中 pushed his way in to her house,
凯不在 她避其不见 but she wasn't there. She was hiding from him.
于是 他将手放在烛火上 So he put his hand into a flame
威胁其家人说 见不着她 手就不会拿开 and told her family he'd keep it there unless he saw her.
她叔叔起身将蜡烛吹灭 Her uncle just stood up and blew the flame out.
此举看似可笑 却意义非凡 It was a ridiculous but critical event.
包括其父母的每个人都深感震惊 His parents were appalled of his behavior. Everybody was.
他不知道自己哪里做错了 But Vincent couldn't see what he'd done wrong.
爱得太深难道有罪吗 Was loving someone too much a crime?
几年后 与高更在阿尔勒期间 Years later, when he was in Arles with Gauguin,
文森特画了一幅神秘的画 Vincent painted a mysterious picture,
《埃顿花园的回忆》 Memory Of A Garden In Etten.
画中有一对寡妇 其中一人是他的母亲 It shows a pair of widows. One is his mother.
他总说另外一人是她妹妹威廉敏娜 He always said the other was his sister Wilhelmina.
但看上去不就跟凯·弗斯一模一样么 But doesn't she look like the spitting image of Kee Vos?
她那句"毫无可能"定使他肝肠寸断 "No, no, never", she said. How it must've hurt.
♪ With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue..." ♪
♪ The only thing I ever get from you was sorrow ♪
♪ is sorrow ♪
文森特所过的圣诞节总是不愉快的 Vincent's life was peppered with lousy Christmases.
事情发展到最后 梵高割下自己耳朵时 When he hacked off his ear, at the other end of the story,
也是在圣诞节 that was at Christmas.
而1881年他在埃顿过的圣诞节 And the one he had in Etten in 1881
也是糟糕透顶的一个 was another of the very worst.
那天 他冲出家门 He stormed out on Christmas Day itself,
坚决不去教堂 直接来到了这里 refused to go to church and left immediately for here
海牙 The Hague.
他定是遍寻这里的红灯区 There he must've trawled the red-light district
要么就是过去知道的地方 or perhaps visited an address he already knew,
他在那儿找到一个妓女 where he sought out a prostitute
名为克里斯蒂娜·克拉希娜·玛利亚·霍尼克 called Christien Clasina Maria Hoornik,
由于荷兰语某种复杂的原因 who, for some complex Dutch linguistic reason,
她又叫西恩 was called Sien.'
文森特似乎早就认识西恩 Vicent seems already to have known this Sien.
不然他怎么会径直去找她 How else to explain the extreme abruptness
跟她交往呢 with which he took up with her?
圣诞节前 凯·弗斯是他的真命天女 Before Christmas, Kee Vos was his life, his destiny.
他的一切 His everything.
圣诞节后 他已然和西恩同居 甚至想娶她 After Christmas, he’s with Sien and wants to marry her.
其间相隔不过一周 From one to the other in a week.
西恩比他大几岁 Sien was a few years older than him,
而且 大家都觉得她不美 and as people are fond of pointing out, she was no beauty.'
她脸上有天花的痘痕 Pockmarked with smallpox,
一脸刁相 风尘气十足 引人生厌 she had a shrewish face and looked used, discarded.
西恩有个五岁大的女儿 Sien already had a five-year-old daughter.
还流产过两次 遇见文森特时又有孕在身 She'd had two miscarriages and was pregnant again when Vincent met her.
后来她产下那个孩子 和文森特一起生活 She'd later have that baby whilst they were living together.
她命途多舛 So life had dealt her one crappy hand after another
以至未老先衰 满脸皱纹 and wrinkled her prematurely.
而对于文森特来说 那些皱纹诱惑力极大 But these wrinkles attracted Vincent every bit
就像其他男士迷恋 as fiercely as some men
修长的美腿 闪动的睫毛 are attracted by long legs or fluttering eyelashes.
♪ With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue ♪
♪ The only thing I ever grt from you is sorrow ♪
他钟情迟暮美人 He liked his women faded.
她脾气不好 梵高原谅她 She was bad tempered but he forgave her that.
她破口大骂 梵高也原谅她 She swore crazily - he forgave her that.
她吸烟嗜酒 梵高都通通原谅 She drank, she smoked. He forgave all of it
因为 不同于其他女人 她不曾抛弃梵高 because, unlike the others, she stayed with him.'
他得意写道 "那女人如鸽子般迷恋着我" "The woman is as attached to me as a tame dove," he wrote, so pleased.
西恩是唯一一位和梵高同居的女人 Sien is the only woman Van Gogh ever lived with.
他们的家就在我身后的这条街道 They set up a house in the street behind me,
位于海牙郊区 here in The Hague outskirts,
当年这里房租低廉 但火车使人彻夜难眠 where it used to be cheaper and the trains keep you awake at night..
♪ With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue... ♪
♪ The only thing I ever get from you is sorrow ♪
到目前为止 文森特最好的作品 Vincent's best drawing so far,
即他的第一幅杰作 画的就是西恩 his first masterpiece, was of Sien.
他给画作取了个英文名字 He gave it an English title -
♪ Sorrow ♪
哀伤 Sorrow.
哀伤
他说 想让她看起来像树根 He wanted her to look like a root he said
抓牢土地以求生存 clinging to the earth for survival.
♪ ..Playing your high class games of sorrow ♪
而事实也是如此 And she does.
♪ Sorrow ♪
看起来多么美好 有了女人 终于安定了 It was all looking so good - he had a woman, he was settled.
♪ You never do what you know you oughta ♪
但是好景有多长呢 But would it last?
♪ Something tells me you are the devil's daughter ♪
你们认为呢 What do you think?
♪ Sorrow ♪
♪ Oooh-oooh ♪
♪ Oooh... ♪
♪ I tried to find her cos I can't resist her ♪
♪ I never knew how much I missed her ♪
♪ Sorrow... ♪