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这里是1882年夏梵高治疗性病 This is where the hospital stood in which Vincent Van Gogh
那家医院的旧址 was treated for the clap in the summer of 1882.
不知为何门口没有匾额 For some reason there's no plaque.
他得了淋病 He'd caught gonorrhoea
现在还留有一份详细的诊疗病历 and he's left us a detailed description of the treatment he received.
导尿管经私处 A catheter would be inserted
插进他的膀胱 into his bladder through you-know-where,
淋病
管子末端膨胀固定 and gradually enlarged.
当时在海牙 混迹风月场所的男人 Because that's what happens to men
得淋病屡见不鲜 who consort with prostitutes in The Hague.
♪ With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue ♪
文森特·梵·高全传
♪ The only thing I ever got from you ♪
♪ Was sorrow ♪
♪ Sorrow ♪
上集最后讲到 When we left you in programme one,
翻译 instante
文森特与名叫西恩的妓女同居 Vincent had set up house here with a prostitute called Sien.
翻译 煜玲
♪ You're out there playing your high-class games of sorrow...♪
翻译 foxap
西恩有两个孩子 Sien had two children.
海牙有传言称 The gossips of The Hague
翻译 NoNopig
最小的孩子是文森特的 were suggesting that the youngest was Vincent's.
♪ You never do what you know you ought to...♪
翻译 33来了
校对 zhanginfo·缅怀陈劲·
时间轴 壳壳
这里是席凡宁根海滩 This is the beach at Scheveningen.
位于海牙郊外的海边 It's on the seaside outskirts of The Hague.
后期 鱼骨头
在文森特那个年代 And in Vincent's time,
海牙的画家时常成群结队来此 Hague artists used to troop out here for the day
总监 苏打水
描绘汹涌的海浪和起伏的沙滩 to draw the wild seas and the undulating dunes.
文森特喜欢和西恩在这里过夜 Vincent would stay the night here with Sien.
他曾得意称 "太惬意了" So bohemian, he bragged.
他们在沙滩上相拥而眠 They'd sleep together on the dunes and in the morning
翌日清晨 一起饮咖啡 观日出 they'd drink hot coffee together and watch the sun going up.
然后文森特开始做画 And then Vincent would get down to work.
他给弟弟提奥信中附有一幅简笔画 Vincent sent his brother Theo a drawing of himself
在席凡宁根的海滩上 using a contraption called a perspective frame,
他巧妙运用"视角框架"的情景 here on the beach at Scheveningen.
文森特找画室后面的木匠 He had it built for him by the carpenter
定制了这一设备 whose workshop was round the back of Vincent's studio.
在海牙水彩颜料的烘托下 You can see this carpenter's workshop quite clearly
这个木匠作坊清晰可见 in the most luminous of The Hague watercolours.
一切都很顺遂 So it was all going so well.
有了女人和工作室 作品喷薄而出 He had a woman, a studio, the pictures were pouring out of him,
然而 厄运却再次降临 when suddenly bad luck sniffed him out again!
某人发现他与妓女有染 Someone discovered he was living with a prostitute.
基本可以断定 这个"某人"就是 This someone was almost certainly
海牙古比尔画廊的前老板特斯底格 his old boss from Goupil's in The Hague, Mr. Tersteeg.
特斯底格给文森特的父亲致信相告 Tersteeg wrote to Vincent's father,
梵高父亲的反应是 who responded by trying to have his son committed
将儿子关入疯人院 in a lunatic asylum.
就在附近的吉尔 It was nearby, a place called Gheel.
我到过那里 I've been there,
没有哪位父亲会把儿子关在那里 and it's not somewhere a father should seek to lock up a son.
吉尔禁闭室
但结果表明这是多余的 In any case, it proved unnecessary.
文森特曾发誓要娶西恩 对她不离不弃 Vincent had pledged to marry Sien and never, ever to desert her.
但一年的相处后 他改主意了 But after a year of getting to know her he changed his mind.
♪ With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue ♪
现在已无法得知两人究竟产生了什么矛盾 It's impossible to know exactly what went wrong between them.
西恩的母亲必定是原因之一 Sien's mother certainly played a part.
她当时和他们住一起 She was now living in the house with them
正是她将西恩赶出家门 and since she was the one who had originally sent Sien out onto the streets,
所以她的存在绝对起了负面影响 she can't have been a good influence or a welcome presence.
文森特对西恩态度的变化令人失望 I found Vincent's changing attitudes to Sien hugely disappointing.
不曾想他如此善变 I didn't expect fickleness from him.
前一刻她还是女神和知己 One moment she's his saviour, his soul mate, the only one.
一转眼她又成了 Then suddenly she's become
"那个懒惰 暴躁而愚蠢的女人" "That woman, lazy, bad-tempered, stupid."
提奥也插了一脚 Theo did his part,
他每月给文森特寄去150法郎 he was now sending Vincent 150 francs a month,
自然而然 他对哥哥 and, not unnaturally, resented his brother
把钱用在妓女身上深恶痛绝 keeping a prostitute and her family on his money.
提奥希望文森特离开那个女人 离开海牙 Theo wanted Vincent to leave the woman, leave The Hague,
检点行为 专注于绘画 smarten up and concentrate on his art.
向来执拗的文森特 The usually headstrong Vincent
这次意外地顺从 found some unexpected meekness within him
听从弟弟的安排 and came round to the idea.
在追随文森特离开海牙 Before we, too, flee The Hague
回到荷兰乡间之前 and head back into the Dutch countryside, as Vincent did,
我想对一个人 I want to pay tribute
克里斯蒂娜·克拉希娜·玛利亚·霍尼克 to Christina Clasina Maria Hoornik,
即西恩 表示致敬 whom everyone called Sien.
♪ With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue ♪
♪ The only thing I ever got from you ♪
♪ Was sorrow ♪
虽然她曾酗酒 懒惰 Maybe she drank, maybe she was a prostitute,
♪ sorrow ♪
堕入风尘 maybe she was lazy,
但在她与文森特同居的一年里 but she stuck with Vincent for a year,
激发了他最大的创作力 inspired his best art so far
从梵高身上 她理应得到更多 and deserved better from him than she got.
♪ sorrow ♪
我们在荷兰首府阿姆斯特丹的东北部 We're northeast of Amsterdam, just about as far as you can go in Holland
再往前就是北海了 before you drop into the North Sea.
这里是德伦特 到处是沼泽湿地 This is Drenthe. With its sodden bogs and sunken fens,
荷兰最穷困的地方 过去是现在也是 this is and was one of the poorest bits of the Netherlands.
人们靠挖泥煤 捡土豆艰难度日 People scratched a living here digging peat and picking potatoes.
由于此地阴冷潮湿 而且压抑 and because it was so grim and damp and melancholy,
所以居住成本低廉 Drenthe was cheap to live in.
文森特因此从海牙蜷缩至此 So this is where Vincent fled from The Hague
这里的压抑与其心境不谋而合 and how well this melancholy landscape suited his mood.
当地居民像穴居人一样生活 The people live like troglodytes,
尖顶小屋一半在地上 half above ground, half below,
一半在地下 屋顶布满苔藓 in lumpy-humpy cottages with moss roofs.
幽灵般的驳船装载货物 影影绰绰 Ghostly barges loaded with shadowy black baggage
幽幽地漂向远方 floated gloomily across the vistas.
文森特在这里呆了三个月 Vincent was here for about three months.
由于遗弃了西恩和她的孩子 He was in an awful state when he got here.
文森特刚来时状态很糟 Having decided to desert Sien and the children,
负罪感终日咬啮着内心 he tormented himself with it daily.
每每见到佝偻的母亲在田间劳作 When he encountered a stooped mother working in the fields,
或是衣着臃肿的妇女蹒跚路间 or a bundled up wife trudging along the paths,
他都不可避免地联想到西恩 she reminded him invariably of Sien
不禁悲从中来 and made him feel tearful.
悲切归悲切 他终究还是抛弃了西恩 Well, maybe, but he abandoned her, nevertheless.
在德伦特 梵高曾写下 He wrote some of his longest,
饱含忧思的冗长信札 most philosophical letters from Drenthe.
显然 他晚间有大把的时间 He obviously had a lot of time on his hands in the evenings
观察周遭的环境 想必也无它事可做 and I guess, looking around at all this, there wasn't much else to do.
文森特也给父母写信 Vincent wrote to his parents as well,
描述德伦特秋高气爽的日子 about how the sunny autumn days in Drenthe
怎样在霎时变得狂风骤雨 alternated with stormy wet ones.
他对暴风情有独钟 自称喜欢雨 He preferred the storms, he said, he liked rain,
也从来没有人像他一样 and I don't think anyone's ever
兴致勃勃而又频繁地描画暴风雨 painted it as fondly or as often as he did.
文森特早期的作品都很阴郁 All Vincent's early work is glum -
劳动人民弓腰俯首 working people, digging, bending,
在茫茫田间日复一日劳作 ploughing again and again in their endless toil.
没有一件欢快的作品 但人们公认 None of it's cheerful, but, by general repute,
他最为阴暗的作品便是在德伦特所画 the grimmest work he ever produced was here in Drenthe.
不过他从不抱怨或贬低这里的景致 But you know what, he never complained about the landscape or demeaned it.
反而总是从中获得灵感 He always found it inspirational.
任何人来到这样的地方 To you and me, we get in a place like this.
都只能看到压抑的褐色 and all we see are melancholy browns.
但在文森特对德伦特的描绘中 But when you look at Vincent's pictures from Drenthe,
这里显得富有魅力并且多姿多彩 there's so much radiance in them, so much colour.
这是他最伟大的才能之一 It's one of his greatest talents -
当所有人只看到心碎和凄凉 where everyone else saw heartbreak and bleakness,
文森特·梵·高却能发现美 Vincent Van Gogh found beauty.
最后驱使他离开德伦特的 In the end it wasn't the bleakness of Drenthe
不是这里的阴沉 而是金钱的匮乏 that drove him out of here, but the lack of money.
提奥工作不顺 Theo was having problems at work.
面临失业的风险 With the risk of Theo losing his job,
文森特唯一的选择 the only place left for Vincent to go
就是重回家庭的怀抱 was back into the arms of his family.
梵高路
梵高咖啡馆
纽南 一座现如今整洁保守的城市 Nuenen - what a ghastly place, so neat, so prissy.
文森特在1883年圣诞节前几周 But when Vincent turned up here,
来到了这里 a few weeks before Christmas 1883,
当时这里是出了名的荒凉 this was somewhere notoriously bleak,
属荷兰主要的贫困城市 right in the middle of the Dutch poverty belt.
如今 我们很难将荷兰人 It's difficult these days to
想象成饱受贫困的农民 think of the Dutch as impoverished peasants,
在农田里起早贪黑地挖土豆 toiling in the fields from morning till night,
早早就告别人世 digging potatoes, dying young.
现在变化可真大 What a make-over they've had!
文森特在纽南创作的作品 But Vincent's art from Nuenen
鲜明地反映了当地的生活 is compelling evidence of just how dark and tragic
是多么黑暗 多么悲惨 多么劳苦 and miserable and exhausting life was right here.
文森特的父母并不愿见到他 His parents weren't pleased to see him.
在海牙与妓女的事让他父母十分震怒 The affair with the whore in The Hague had upset them mightily.
他告诉提奥 父母不收留自己 He told Theo that they shrank from letting him in,
好像自己是条脏兮兮的狗 as if he were a big shaggy dog
生怕他在客厅留下肮脏的脚印 who'd leave muddy footprints in the living room.
这就是他们当时居住的地方 瞧 多宏伟 This is the house they lived in. Look at it, it's splendid.
文森特表现得桀骜不驯 Vincent's behaviour was at its uncompromising worst.
晚餐时 他拒绝与家人坐在一起 At dinner, he'd refuse to join the rest of the family
而是独自搬张椅子 将食物放在大腿上 and sat apart on his own chair with his food in his lap,
吃剩下的面包皮与起司 eating old bread crusts and cheese,
但因为牙齿不断脱落 which he'd trouble chewing
吃起来相当痛苦 because his teeth were going.
当他父母接受这一现实后 When they'd got over the shock of him turning up,
同意把屋后的烫衣间 they allowed him to clean out the mangle room at the back of the house
腾出来给文森特 where the washing was done.
1883-1885年 文森特·梵·高曾在此创作
他搬进去一个火炉和几样简单家具 Vincent put in a stove, brought in a few bits of modest furniture
随之便在他这第一个画室疯狂创作 and was soon working furiously in his first ever studio.
纽南有两大落后产业 耕作和纺织 Nuenen specialised in two types of rural poverty, farming and weaving.
织布工是文森特早期作品的重要题材 Vincent's pictures of weavers are perhaps his most original early works.
织机样子怪异粗笨 They're such strange and awkward machines.
他将织机喻为"肮脏的黑木怪" These "Black monsters of grimy wood," as he called them,
而织工则他被形容作 in the middle of which sit,and I'm quoting him again,
"猴子 侏儒 魔鬼" "Dark monkeys or gnomes or ghosts,
"弄得织机成天嘎吱乱响" clattering away with the sticks from morning until night."
纽南四分之一的工人 A quarter of Nuenen's battered
都以纺织亚麻布为生 working population used to be linen weavers
而现在 全城仅剩下的一间纺织作坊 and now there's just one weaver's house left in the entire town.
已经变作一家现代礼品店 It's become a New Age shop,
售卖带有神秘宗教色彩的小摆设 selling occult and religious knick-knacks,
进店后会发现 内部还是出奇狭小 but when you walk in it's still eloquently tiny and easy to imagine
不难想象 当年"黑木怪"吱嘎乱叫时 how little room there'd have been here for the people
织工的空间多么局促不堪 once the black mechanical monster was installed and chattering.
另外 他也开始取材其他人物 He'd begun collecting people as well,
同样仍是饱含创作激情 with this same pictorial greed,
一次又一次地画农民头像 painting peasant heads time and time again.
梵高现存的头像作品至少有50幅 At least 50 of these face paintings still exist,
谁知道遗失的又有多少 and who knows how many more have been lost?
这有点像是科学家采集农民样本 It was almost like a scientific collection of peasant specimens.
他开始对颅相学产生兴趣 He'd got interested in phrenology,
这种令人发指的伪科学 that disquieting pseudoscience
在19世纪中叶十分盛行 that was terribly fashionable in the middle of 19th century
崇尚颅相学的人们认为 and whose followers believed that you could
通过颅骨形状可以判断人的性格 tell a person's character from the shape of their head.
颅相学是某些变态理论的前身 Phrenology was the dodgy precursor of some truly terrible ideas -
比如纳粹的《种族优秀论》 the racial stereotyping of the Nazis for one
最初就是受到了颅相学的启发 had phrenology as its original inspiration.
现在颅相学饱受批判 当时却非如此 It's utterly discredited now but not then,
文森特沉迷于此 and Vincent was interested in it.
他画农民时 In his paintings of the peasants,
总是扭曲纽南人民的面相 he often distorts the physiognomies of the Nuenen people
以此赋予他们动物的特征 to give them animal characteristics,
口鼻拱起 额骨前倾 snoutlike noses, sloping foreheads.
我相信 他并非出于歧视 或许稍显怪异 Not to denigrate them, I'm sure, but to categorise them,
只为夸张表现他们是乡下人罢了 a touch spookily perhaps, into rural types.
文森特痴迷农民面部创作的极致之作 The culmination of Vincent's manic investigation of country faces
便是在荷兰时最下心血的那幅作品 was the most ambitious painting of his Dutch years -
《吃土豆的人》 全画充斥着冷暗阴郁 the dark and entirely melancholy Potato Eaters.
西奥多卢·梵·高 1882-1885
文森特的父亲 西奥多卢牧师 Vincent's father, Pastor Theodorus,
于1885年3月离世 died in March 1885
他葬在此处 原本这里有座尖塔 and he's buried here on the spot where that tower used to stand
文森特在纽南的很多创作中都可见到 that you see in the background of so many of Vincent's Nuenen pictures.
那时 文森特和父亲不说话 关系很僵 They weren't really speaking by then, they'd fallen out,
但毫无疑问 父亲的离世 but I don't think there's any doubt that the darkness of this event
对文森特随后那幅作品产生了影响 infected the picture that Vincent began a few days later.
《吃土豆的人》画的是一个纽南农家 The Potato Eaters shows a family of knobbly Nuenen peasants
一起共进晚餐 吃的是土豆加咖啡 sharing their evening meal - potatoes with coffee.
第二天换换口味 不过是咖啡加土豆 Tomorrow, for a change, they might have coffee with potatoes!
文森特每每以此画为傲 Vincent was inordinately proud of this painting,
认为是他当时的巅峰之作 he considered it his masterpiece so far.
人物笨拙可爱 典型的文森特风格 It's endearingly clumsy... and very him.
这里是土豆天堂 到处都有土豆 It's potato heaven around here, they're everywhere!
土豆 土豆 还是土豆 Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes, potatoes!
它们不仅仅是农民的主食 But they're not just the staple food of the peasants,
其含义远非如此 there's more to it than that.
文森特说 画《吃土豆的人》时 Vincent said when he was painting The Potato Eaters
他想将这些人画出土豆的感觉 he wanted them to feel like potatoes,
这些人有着如土豆般的手 The people themselves had hands like potatoes,
土豆般的脸 they had faces like potatoes.
说实话 我从前并不知道他说这话什么意思 To be honest, I never quite knew what he meant by any of that
但当我来到这里 亲历这些时 我明白了 till I got here and felt these things.
这些人确实就是土豆 The people are indeed like that!
他们灰头土脸 皮肤黝黑 粗糙不堪 They're of the earth, they're gnarled, they're brown
就像土豆一样 they're like potatoes!
走出纽南你会发现 Once you get out of Nuenen,
地貌景观变化并不大 the landscape hasn't changed that much,
林荫大道两旁是高耸的杨木 with these plunging avenues of poplars
这是文森特最爱画的风景 that he so loved to paint.
文森特有个古怪的爱好 Vincent had a peculiar outdoor hobby,
他喜欢收集鸟巢 he used to collect birds' nests
在纽南期间 and apparently had about 30 of them,
他收集过30个不同的鸟巢 all different, while he was actually here,
喜欢将它们在装饰树枝上一字排开 and he used to display them in a line arranged on a decorative branch.
有些鸟巢非常罕见 Some of the nests came from rare birds,
我遗憾看到 其中还有黄莺的巢 including, I was sad to see, the nest of a golden oriole.
为什么要画鸟巢呢 那可很难画 Why paint birds' nests? They're so difficult.
我很不赞同文森特收集鸟巢的做法 I rather disapprove of Vincent collecting birds' nests.
他会同时将鸟蛋拿走 He took the eggs, as well.
我们常常忽略他人性中残忍的一面 There's a ruthlessness to him that we tend to overlook,
因为梵高总会触及人们心中最柔软之处 we've become so mushy on the subject of Vincent Van Gogh.
不久之后 他进了圣雷米疯人院 Later on, when he was already at the insane asylum in Saint-Remy,
在那里创作了这幅绝美的帝王蛾 he painted this beautiful study of an emperor moth.
他说 蛾子夜间在花园中飞舞 He said it has turned up in the asylum gardens at night
为了仔细观察 他不得不把它弄死 and that it he had to kill it to see it properly.
雕塑应该是文森特准备去野外作画 That's meant to be Vincent going to work in the fields.
他肯定不喜欢 太过矫揉造作 He'd have hated it, it's so twee.
如今 纽南人非常自豪 These days, Nuenen is ever so proud of the fact
梵高曾在这里住了两年 that Van Gogh lived here for two years,
并创造出早期的许多杰作 produced some of his most powerful early works here.
他们现在很爱戴文森特 They love Vincent all right now,
但当时并非如此 but they didn't when he was here.
《吃土豆的人》里有位姑娘怀孕了 One of the girls from The Potato Eaters got pregnant.
人们认为是文森特的 They said Vincent was responsible
那座教堂里的天主教神父 and the Catholic priest from that church over there
甚至禁止教民为文森特做绘画模特 forbade his parishioners from posing for him.
整座小镇都反感他 The town campaigned against him,
小孩开始朝他扔石头 kids began throwing stones at him,
梵高咖啡馆
他被驱逐出了这里 they ran him out of town,
而现在 人们却在利用梵高之名赚钱 so now they're milking him for all he's worth.'
但他的下一站截然相反 That's not true of his next location -
那是全球国际性大都市之一 one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities.
1885年11月 In November 1885,
正好可以躲过梵高家族讨厌的圣诞聚会 just in time to avoid the dreaded Christmas get-together of the Van Goghs,
文森特来到了安特卫普 Vincent left for Antwerp.
这里距其出生地津德尔特只有25英里 Antwerp's only 25 miles or so from where Vincent was born in Zundert,
所以 尽管安特卫普属于比利时 so although it's in Belgium,
地理上却如同在文森特家门口 it was always geographically on Vincent's doorstep.
但布拉班特这座萌动的大都会 But symbolically this throbbing Brabantine metropolis,
以艺术 啤酒和钻石闻名之所 famous for art and beer and diamonds,
却另有一番天地 was another world.
安特卫普的牧师 In Antwerp, the priests didn't take to their pulpits
不会因怀孕问题教化民众 when someone got pregnant
因为那样会忙不过来 because they would have had to stay up there all the time!
他探索的第一个地方就是这里 The first place he explored was down here,
安特卫普港口 典型文森特的做法 the port, typical Vincent,
这就是安特卫普下层百姓聚集之地 This is where Antwerp's lowlife was concentrated.
他曾雨中漫步在这街头 Wandering through these streets in the rain,
看到水手被一群愤怒的妓女追着逃出妓院 he saw a sailor being chased out of a brothel
这一幕令他开心不已 by a gang of angry prostitutes, which amused him.
他终于离开了纽南 He was out of Nuenen, all right.
过了两年沉闷的乡下生活 After two years of grim country living,
又被当做呆头呆脑的乡巴佬 being treated as the village idiot,
他感受到了城市的冲击 this was the urban shot,
这正是他所需要的彻底转变 the complete change he needed.
从此开始 文森特便如被放逐一般 From now on, Vincent was an exile,
四处飘荡 再也没回过荷兰 a man on the move, and he never went back to Holland.
妓女和女招待是唯一能找到的模特 The whores and the cafe girls were the only models he could get.
他出钱请她们来 画她们的肖像 He painted their portraits and paid them for it.
但他真正想画的是她们的裸体 What he really wanted was to paint them nude,
可他却付不起价钱 but couldn't afford it.
从他离开纽南的父母家 He was living on bread and coffee
直到他来这儿的第一个冬天 from the time he moved out of his parents' house in Nuenen
这大半年时间里 他仅以面包和咖啡充饥 to his first winter here, which is over half a year.
其间只吃过六七次热餐 He'd only eaten six or seven hot meals -
文森特是实实在在地挨饿 Vincent was literally starving.
"阿玛迪斯·朱尔斯·卡芬涅尔" "Armand Jules Cavenaile."
阿玛迪斯·朱尔斯·卡芬涅尔 1882年7月13日
最近 一些有趣的证据披露说 Some interesting evidence has emerged quite recently
文森特曾在这座房子里 that Vincent was treated here,
因患梅毒接受过一位卡芬涅尔医生的治疗 in this house, by a Dr Cavenaile, for syphilis.
梅毒不仅致命 还可引起精神失常 Not only was syphilis fatal, it also drove you mad.
1880年代的精神病院里 The insane asylums of the 1880s
满是精神错乱的梅毒患者 were full of syphilitic lunatics.
文森特对于自己神智的担忧 Vincent's doubts about his own sanity
自然地加深了 had good reason to increase.
牙齿已经脱落 His teeth had gone,
他去看了安特卫普的牙医 he went to the dentist here in Antwerp
拔掉了十颗牙齿 and had to have ten teeth pulled out.
知道文森特从不在自画像中笑的原因吗 If you wondered why Vincent never smiles in any of his self-portraits,
这不仅因为他是个不爱笑的人 it isn't just that he's not the smiling kind,
还因为他不想让你看到他的牙齿 it's also because he doesn't want you to see his teeth.
他才33岁 身体就开始垮掉 He was only 33 and already he was falling apart.
他知道自己抽烟过多 He knew he was smoking too much
但有意为之 为了减轻饥饿感 but he did it deliberately to subdue his hunger,
虽说比利时人那种冷幽默 and with a grim sense of humour that's untypical of Vincent,
并非文森特的风格 although admittedly rather Belgian,
他还是画了一幅搞笑风格的自画像 he painted what I think should be seen as a comic self-portrait,
一个嘴中叼着烟的骷髅 a skull with a fag in its mouth.
年仅33岁的文森特 Vincent, only 33,
就已经开始用微笑面对死亡了 yet already facing death with a smile.
文森特在1886年1月 Vincent joined the Academy
进入了安特卫普艺术学院 here in January 1886.
他已经在安特卫普逗留数月 He'd already been in Antwerp a couple of months
尽管 他一直对艺术学院心存芥蒂 and was, of course, a lifelong mistruster of academies.
"艺术学院的问题" "The trouble with academies,"
文森特从纽南写给提奥的信中写道 Vincent wrote to Theo from Nuenen,
"就是他们只教你画路易十五和阿拉伯人 "is that they teach you to paint Louis XV and Arabs,
而不是织工或矿工或裁缝" not weavers or diggers or sewers."
文森特厌恶艺术学院 Vincent loathed academies
但在33岁的时候 and at the age of 33
却令人费解地选择了艺术学院 he was singularly ill-suited to enter one.
因为安特卫普皇家艺术学院 'But the Academy in Antwerp
是他唯一能找到免费模特的地方 was the only place he could get free models,
尤其是裸体模特 particularly nude ones.'
另一个学生 文森特·海格曼 Another student, Vincent Haggerman,
为我们留下了梵高在此期间 has left us some delightful memories
一些美好的回忆 of Vincent's time here.
他穿一件当地肉贩子常穿那种蓝大褂 He wore a blue smock of a kind usually favoured
当然 还戴着他那顶皮帽子 by Flemish livestock merchants and his fur hat, of course.
海格曼记得 学院新添了一个断臂维纳斯的石膏像 Haggerman remembers a cast of the Venus de Milo being brought in
文森特却给她画了个极其丰满的臀部 and Vincent drawing her with great big hips.
教授大惊失色 抽出这幅画 The aghast professor picked up this drawing
对其重新修改 加以掩饰 and covered it with corrections,
为"米洛的维纳斯"适合生养的肥臀 slimming down the child-bearing hips
减肥瘦身 of the Venus de Milo.
文森特大为光火 Vincent exploded.
他咆哮道 "你根本就不了解年轻女子" "You clearly don't know what a young woman's like!" he bellowed.
"女人就得有丰满的臀部和宽阔的骨盆 "A woman must have hips, buttocks,
这样才易于生养" 他大声驳斥说 a pelvis that can carry a child!" and out he stormed.
艺术学院
学院在1886年3月召开董事会议 The Academy board met in March 1886 and decided
决定将文森特送回到基础班 that Vincent should be put back to the elementary class,
但他们还是迟了一步 梵高已飘然而去 but they were too late, he'd already gone.'
1886年2月20日 'On 20th February 1886,
提奥当时在古比尔·博萨德·瓦拉冬画廊工作 Theo van Gogh was at work at Goupil-Boussod & Valadon
就在这里的蒙马特大道 just here in the Boulevard Montmartre
第二区 蒙马特大道
巴黎北站一个杂工给他带来张便条 when a porter from the Gard du Nord arrived with a note.
第二区 蒙马特大道
很不幸 是文森特写来的 Unfortunately, it was from Vincent.
文森特写给提奥的法语便条
我称之为"不幸"是因为 I say "Unfortunately", because
提奥曾向文森特恳求过 Theo had pleaded with Vincent
不要放弃在安特卫普的学业 不要来巴黎 not to give up his studies in Antwerp, not to come to Paris.
提奥有工作的原因 身体的原因 Theo had troubles at work, troubles with his health,
他还有个情人 而他的公寓又很小 troubles with his mistress and his flat was too small,
但这一切恳求都没起作用 but all this pleading made no difference,
文森特还是来了 Vincent came anyway!
提奥的公寓实在太小 Theo's apartment was too small
住不下他们两个 for both of them,
所以这对兄弟搬到了这里 李必街 so the brothers moved here to rue Lepic,
一条著名的坡道 a notably steep road
走到蒙马特要颇费一番气力 up which you must puff to enter Montmartre.
♪ Au petit bonheur de rue que t'a retrouve l'adoresse... ♪
第十八区 李必街
不用我来介绍文森特时期的蒙马特 You don't need me to tell you about Montmartre in Vincent's time.
你们都看过电影 也跳过康康舞 You've seen the film, attempted the cancan.
这里是巴黎主要的夜生活场所 This was Paris's chief nocturnal pleasure ground,
到处都是舞厅 酒馆和夜总会 busy with dance halls, drinking dens and cabarets,
它游离于文明巴黎边缘 a shameful hill of fun that marked
是一座纸醉金迷 风化尽失的高地 the edges of civilised Paris.
梵高在巴黎的生活是个巨大的谜团 Van Gogh's stay in Paris is surprisingly mysterious.
显然 他不用给提奥写信 He wasn't writing to Theo obviously
因为提奥就在身边 because Theo was here,
俩人的通信出现较长一段空白期 so there's a huge gap in their correspondence.
巴黎其他一些艺术家有些佐证 There are pieces of testimony from other Parisian artists,
但都像是酒后胡言 并不可信 but it tends to feel unreliable and boozy.
♪ Plaisir d'amour... ♪
让我们试着理清来龙去脉 Let's try and put this in context.
1886年冬 文森特到达巴黎时 When Vincent arrived in Paris in the winter of 1886
印象派已经流行了十年 impressionism had been the art fashion for a decade already,
而人们正在想着推陈出新 and the hunt was on for the next big thing.'
♪ La vie... ♪
但文森特还从没见过一副印象派画作 But Vincent had never even seen an impressionist painting.
在纽南和安特卫普 There were no impressionist pictures in Nuenen,
可没有印象派的画作 there were no impressionist pictures in Antwerp,
所以他有大量的知识急需补习 so he had an awful lot of catching up to do.
文森特前期所画的巴黎景观中 A couple of Vincent's first Parisian landscapes
有几幅沿那个方向取景 look out towards the city that way,
但为数很少 but most of them don't.
多数作品视角都是这个方向 后面那里 Most look deliberately that way, back there,
通向蒙马特高地的坡道上 on the slopes of the butte Montmartre.
画中仍可看到那片近乎乡村的古怪绿地 You can still find a curious half-rural scrubland
其间有凌乱的园林 of overgrown allotments
和都市特色的小型葡萄园 and pocket-sized urban vineyards.
文森特最初的半乡村蒙马特画作 Vincent's first paintings of the half-rural Montmartre
画风并不突出 略显游移 may be stylistically undecided and a touch hesitant,
但的确表现出了其中强烈的荒凉感 but they do give a strong sense of the bleak character of the scrubland.
很多人的梦想在此破灭 Lots of people's dreams are broken here,
不仅仅是文森特的 not just Vincent's.
♪ Plaisir d'amour ♪
♪ Ne dure qu'un moment ♪
♪ Chagrin d'amour ♪
♪ Dure toute la vie ♪
1886至1888年 文森特·梵·高与其弟提奥在此居住
提奥四处抱怨 Theo was complaining to anyone who would listen
对公寓现状大为不满 about the state of the apartment.
屋里满是未干画作 衣服乱扔 There were wet paintings in every corner, clothes everywhere
还有文森特在蒙马特闲逛时 and all this stuff Vincent picked up
捡回来的杂七杂八 on his walks around Montmartre.
家里面简直是乱透了 It was a disastrous domestic arrangement.
我都怀疑 文森特刷牙后 Did Vincent ever screw the top
会不会把牙膏盖子拧上 back on the toothpaste tube? I doubt it.
文森特一贯不修边幅 但更有甚者 Worse even than Vincent's chronic untidiness
他吹毛求疵 锱铢必较 was his genius for picking quarrels with anyone over everything.
在提奥寄往荷兰的家信中 In touching letters from Theo to the family in Holland
他抱怨道 没有人再愿意拜访他 he complained that no-one came around to see him any more,
因为他们对文森特退避三舍 they were too frightened of Vincent.
解决方法只有一个 将他弄出公寓 The only solution was to get him out of the flat
送进某个美术学校 by enrolling him in some kind of art school.
于是 文森特临时成为 Thus Vincent briefly became a pupil
名噪一时的巴黎荒诞派画家 of the fashionably grotesque Parisian
费尔南德·科尔蒙的学生 painter Fernand Cormon.
费尔南德·科尔蒙 1880年
科尔蒙的题材主要是尼安德特人 Cormon specialised in Neanderthals,
即《圣经》中暴力多毛的原始人种 great hairy primitives acting out violent scenes from the Bible.'
这是该隐及其党羽 'This is Cain and his tribe
谋杀亚伯后逃跑的画面 fleeing after the murder of Abel.'
很可怕对吧 'Horrible, isn't it?'
科尔蒙的画室位于克里什大街 Cormon's studio was here on the Boulevard de Clichy,
在蒙马特高地之下 at the bottom of the Montmartre hill.
科尔蒙的宽容众所周知 Cormon had a particular reputation for tolerance,
对不循规蹈矩的学生似乎也颇具慧眼 and seems to have had a nose for picking troublemakers.
科尔蒙眼中的得意弟子 The head pupil in Cormon's studio,
也就是习作要作为范本供大家学习那位 a kind of artistic prefect supposed to set the best example,
名叫图卢兹·罗特列克 was Toulouse-Lautrec.
科尔蒙这个判断简直一缪千里 What an error of judgement that was on Cormon's part!
罗特列克和文森特走得很近 Lautrec and Vincent became close,
他俩一起酗酒招妓 they went drinking and whoring together,
罗特列克在这样一间咖啡馆里 and Lautrec produced a memorable pastel drawing of Vincent
为文森特画了张令人难忘的粉彩画 in a cafe much like this.
文森特做沉思状眺望远方 Staring thoughtfully into the distance,
也许他陷入了沉思 either because he had lots on his mind,
更有可能是喝多了苦艾酒 or more likely, because he'd be drinking too much of that absinthe
完全一副物我两忘的状态 in front of him and his elastic had snapped.
苦艾酒在蒙马特尔被视为首选"嗨品" Absinthe was the drug of choice in Montmartre.
当你倒点水进去后就会知道 You know how when you pour some water into it.
这酒会变成黄绿色 It turns a yellowy green.
他们曾经称其为"绿精灵" Well, they used to called it the Green Fairy.
文森特实在是太喜欢苦艾酒了 And Vincent liked it so much,
甚至为一杯苦艾酒创作过静物画 he painted a still life of a glass of absinthe
看起来就像是向它示爱 that feels almost like a loving portrait to it.
这种酒中的主要致幻成分叫做"苦艾" The chief hallucinogenic ingredient of absinthe is called wormwood,
名字来自《圣经》 which gets its name from the Biblical story
当时 撒旦将自己化成一条蛇 of Satan disguised as a snake,
躲在知识树下引诱夏娃 hiding in the tree of knowledge and tempting Eve.
任何明智之人都知道避开苦艾酒 A sensible man steers clear of absinthe,
但罗特列克和梵高没有这样 but Toulouse Lautrec and
或者 是他们做不到 Vincent Van Gogh didn't or couldn't.
♪ Madame Arthur de Polder ♪
♪ Madame Arthur est une ♪
♪ Femme Qui fait parler, parler, parler ♪
这里曾经是个叫做"铃鼓"的小咖啡馆 This is where a cafe called the Tambourin used to stand.
供应意大利美食 It served delicious Italian food,
服务员都是身着意大利农装 served up by fetching wenches dressed
迷人的乡下丫头 in Italian peasant outfits.
桌子都是铃鼓状 店主生性欢快 The tables were tambourine-shaped and presided over
叫作阿格斯蒂娜·赛格托里 by the Tambourin's interesting owner, Agostina Segatori.
♪ Qui fait parler, parler, parler ♪
她来自那不勒斯 来巴黎是为了做模特 She was from Naples originally but came to Paris to be a model.
一个皮肤黝黑的那不勒斯美人 With her dark Neapolitan beauty,
因此在科尔蒙和他朋友们眼中 she made a passable Egyptian slave girl,
她俨然被幻想为埃及女奴 or Turkish harem wife in those absurd orientalist fantasies
或是土耳其帝王后宫之一 that Cormon and his friends were producing.
♪ Ses yeux petits, petits, petits ♪
文森特遇到阿格斯蒂娜时 When Vincent encountered Agostina,
她已年近五十 she was in her late forties,
正是他喜欢那种黝黑的迟暮美人 swarthy, a faded beauty - his kind of woman.
梵高还画下了她在店角抽烟的样子 He painted her in the corner of the Tambourin, dragging on a fag.
♪ Rien ne vous mettait en moi, mais ♪
文森特和阿格斯蒂娜之间有些暧昧 Vincent and Agostina had some sort of affair.
这肯定是文森特脑海中突现的一幕 This is surely her in the rather frantic
她那副扭曲生硬 诱惑无限的胴体 and angular sexy nudes that Vincent suddenly emerged with.
这可不是我们熟悉的文森特 It's not the Vincent we're used to.
我不清楚你们有多了解巴黎的地势 I don't know how good your geography of Paris is,
但可以想象 圣心堂耸立于蒙马特尔之巅 but if you imagine the hill of Montmartre here with Sacre Coeur on top,
塞纳河在前方静静地流淌 the river Seine flows along the front
然后又霍然掉头北上 then doubles back on itself in a short loop.
如果沿这个方向走下蒙马特尔高地 So if you walk down from Montmartre hill in this direction,
就会到达我现在这个地方 you end up where I'm standing now,
阿涅勒 即当年印象派画师 at Asnieres, the notorious riverside pleasure ground
著名的河畔乐园 of the Impressionists.
莫奈和雷诺阿都曾描绘阿涅勒之美 The Monets and the Renoirs made something terribly pretty out of Asnieres,
但文森特没有 but Vincent didn't
文森特的印象主义着意于苍凉感 Vincent's Impressionism has a bleakness to it
法国画师对此却视而不见 that no Frenchman would have sought out or admitted to.
他常与西尼亚克 一个新结识的画友 He used to walk here from Montmartre
从蒙马特步行至此 with a new pal, the painter Signac,
西尼亚克是位点彩派画家 who was a pointillist, a dot painter.
他们可以在此创作一个上午 They'd work around here all morning
然后在回去的路上吃个迟来的午餐 and then stop off for a late lunch on the way back.
特拉·西云餐厅
文森特曾创作过一些 Vincent painted a couple of the restaurant interiors
与西尼亚克常去那家餐厅的内景画 that he and Signac used to drop in to,
滑稽的是 这些作品的画风 and they're done, hilariously, in the full dot manner
全然是当时流行的点彩 that was all the rage that year.
欣赏梵高在巴黎时的创作 When you look at Van Gogh's Parisian output,
就像是看一大批样品画 it's like looking at a big box of samples.
我该这样画呢 还是那样画呢 Shall I paint this way or that way?
我该皈依印象派 Shall I be an Impressionist
还是屈从于点彩派 or will I take up the dot and pointilise?
在巴黎两年间 梵高共创作有230幅画 Van Gogh produced 230 paintings in his two years in Paris,
所有画风都完全迥异 and hardly any of them seem alike.
有个叫西格弗里德·宾的商人 A certain Siegfried Bing had opened
在普罗旺斯路开了家东方情调的店铺 an exotic oriental emporium in the Rue de Provence,
店内有各式日本舶来品 packed with imported Japanese goodies.
文森特很快就成为这里的常客 Vincent was soon a regular visitor
拿着提奥的钱买这买那 and with Theo's money he was buying in bulk.
兄弟俩大肆购买浮世绘作品 The brothers began manically collecting Japanese prints,
收集了不计其数 hundreds and hundreds of them
题材有歌姬 女伶 乐师 娼妓等等 geishas, actresses, musicians, courtesans.
左边是文森特藏品中的娼妓 On the left is a courtesan from Vincent's collection.
右边则是文森特的临摹作品 On the right is an exact copy of her that Vincent did.
画作略显情色 但他又何尝不是如此 It's slyly erotic, but then so was he.
这里还有幅特殊的模仿画 Here's another of these peculiar copies -
《一树梨花》 原画者为歌川广重 Plum Trees In Flower, originally by Hiroshige.
文森特还加了些书法 Vincent added some extra calligraphy to it.
我找人翻译了过来 I've had it translated.
结果是一家叫"吉原"的妓院广告画 It's an advertisement for a brothel called Yoshi Waraz.
知道吗 梵高博物馆 And do you know what - the Van Gogh Museum
依然保留着他这幅画用的拓纸 still has the tracing paper he used,
宫格式 非常精确 squared up, exact.
浮世绘改变了梵高的绘画理念 Japanese prints changed Van Gogh's art
如同其中表现的那样 as the sun coming up in the morning
太阳升起普照大地 黑夜变为白昼 turns night into day, as they say around here.
梵高画风的分水岭 The great divide in his work is between his pre-Japan pictures
正是以浮世绘为标志 and the post-Japan ones.
他用色更加明快 构图渐脱西方传统 His colours become clearer, brighter, perspectives less Western.
摒弃了阴影 Shadows are banished and
画作中融入了独特的日式平面画风 a striking Japanese flatness enters his work.
文森特对自己创作的浮世绘异常激动 Vincent was so excited by his own Japanese prints,
他在"摇铃咖啡"组织了一次蒙马特画展 that he organised an Montmartre exhibition
向人们展示这些作品 at the Cafe Tambourin to show them off.
从阿格斯蒂娜·赛格托里身后的墙面 You can just about make them out
我们便可对其领略一二 on the wall behind Agostina Segatori.
她凳子上的伞明显是日本式的 The umbrella on her stool, that's definitely Japanese.
可能就是文森特从宾那里买给她的礼物 It was probably bought at Bing's, a gift from Vincent, perhaps.
这幅画同样是阿格斯蒂娜 This is Agostina, too,
但是经过了日式画技的精心雕琢 after extreme Japanese surgery!
可文森特与她渐生龃龉 他不懂与人相处 Vincent fell out with her - Vincent fell out with everybody.
巴黎的声色犬马基本毁掉了文森特 Gay Paris nearly finished Vincent off
当然 也包括他的健康 and certainly ruined his health.
他后来抱怨说 自己在这里变成了酒鬼 He later complained he'd become an alcoholic here.
苦艾酒
无休争吵 夜夜笙歌 酒色无度 明枪暗箭 His nerves were shot from constant arguments,
这一切都在摧残着他的神经 late nights, the absinthe, the bitching and back-stabbing.
他愤懑称 绘画圈子让自己恶心 "His fellow painters," He spat, "Disgusted him."
梵高有个秉性根深蒂固 One of Van Gogh's more reliable character traits
那就是决定草率 was a tendency to rush into decisions.
一旦他决心离开某地 Once he'd made his mind up to go away from somewhere,
就会立刻踏上一下班火车 he was on the next train out.
梵高的离开就像到达一样突兀 The departure from Paris was as abrupt as the arrival had been.
当列车轰鸣着离开巴黎时 As the train puffed out of Paris,
正如写给提奥的信中所说 all Vincent could think about, he wrote to Theo,
文森特一心想着去日本 was his arrival in Japan.
我觉得 他这话是个晦涩的暗喻 He meant it as a befuddled metaphor, I suppose.
因为他去的是法国南部的阿尔勒镇 Where he was really going was the town of Arles in the South of France.
1888年2月20日 梵高走下火车 He stepped off the train on Monday 20th February 1888,
发现阿尔勒镇白雪皑皑 to find Arles blanketed with snow.
谁能想到呢 Who would have thought it?
我跟酒店一个当地小伙子聊过 I spoke to a chap at our hotel who's lived here all his life
他一辈子只见过一次雪 and he's only seen snow once,
所以那时一定是气候异常 so it was truly exceptional weather.
但是文森特激动不已 But Vincent was far too excited
突如其来的大雪也熄灭不了他一腔热情 to let this unlikely snow dampen his enthusiasm.
况且 只有在这种天气状况下 Besides, these were the only possible weather conditions
法国南部看上去才有点日本的感觉 that could make the South of France resemble Japan.
也许 只有一点相似 但总归是相似吧 A vague resemblance, perhaps, but a resemblance, nevertheless.
如果你从未来过阿尔勒 跟大多数现代人一样 If you've never been here and only know Arles through Vincent's art,
仅凭文森特的作品才知道这里的话 which is how most people in modern world first get to know it,
那么 我有义务告诉你 then it's my duty to tell you
现实的阿尔勒和你想象的大相径庭 that Arles is none of the things you think it is.
初来这里时 我以为它是个悠闲安逸 When I first came here I expected a sleepy,
可爱的普罗旺斯小镇 cute Provencal country town,
随处可见向日葵 薰衣草 surrounded by sunflowers, lavender,
居民性格友善 皮肤黝黑 populated by kindly country folk, brown as nuts,
因为文森特画中的小镇就是这样 because that's the image of the place Vincent has left us.
但是阿尔勒从前和现在都并非如此 But Arles isn't like that and wasn't then.
文森特抱怨其脏乱 工业过于发达 Vincent complained it was dirty, surprisingly industrialised.
这里是法国车辆制造中心 The manufacturing centre of French rolling stock,
火车 马车都是这里制造的 trains, carriages, they were all made here.
仔细去看画中阿尔勒的远景 Look carefully at the horizons of his distance views of Arles
你会发现既有教堂尖塔 也有工厂烟囱 and you see as many factory chimneys as there are church steeples.'
哪里有工厂和铁路 哪有就有苦难 Where there are factories and the railways, there's misery,
而这些在阿尔勒是无处不在 and Arles had plenty of that.
才来没几日 Few days after he arrived,
文森特走在这条路上时 Vincent was walking through here,
当年这里已是阿尔勒的红灯区 the red-light district of Arles in those days,
妓院门口便发生一起骚乱 when a commotion broke out outside a brothel.
两名意大利人杀死了一对当地士兵 Two Italians had murdered a pair of local soldiers -zouaves,
驻扎在城镇的轻步兵 light infantrymen - stationed in the town.
文森特趁着那起杀人事件 Vincent took advantage of this murderous commotion
溜进了妓院 and popped into the brothel for himself.
他成了常客 He became a frequent user,
但那起骇人的凶杀案之后 but as a result of this sensational double murder
所有的意大利人都离开了阿尔勒 every Italian in town was run out of Arles.
文森特后来才意识到 Arles was good at running people out of town,
这里是个无情的"驱人之都" as Vincent would later find out.
但并非现在 But not just yet.
此刻积雪尚未消融 While the snow was still on the ground,
神奇的杏树凌寒傲雪 that marvellous weather-defying nut tree,
纷纷绽放 the almond, was already blossoming.
文森特折下一条杏枝 带回酒店 Vincent picked a branch, took it to his hotel,
放入杯中细细观赏 兴致盎然 put it in a glass and watched it, so fondly.
外面白雪皑皑 他的小天地却春意浓浓 There was snow outside, but in his little room spring had come.
很快 果树林里所有的树都开花了 And soon, everything was in bloom in the orchards,
文森特便开始疯狂作画 and Vincent embarked upon an orgy of blossom painting.
没几日他就完成了14幅 He produced 14 pictures in a few days
画中有梨树 桃树 还有樱桃 pears, peaches, cherries,
他将其设想为并排展示的三联画 and he envisaged them hanging in threes to form triptychs,
如宗教画作一般 like religious pictures.
终于 在这里 梵高又一次找到了信仰 Here, at last, was a religion he could give his all to once again,
对大自然的信仰 the religion of nature.
所以很多人来阿尔勒 寻找真实的梵高 So many people come to Arles hoping to find the real Van Gogh,
但问题是 那些痕迹几乎已经磨灭 the trouble is there's not much of the real Van Gogh left.
就算没被阿尔勒当地居民破坏 What the people of Arles didn't knock down,
也被二战的炮火吞噬殆尽 WWII bombers got rid of.
但是 如果你真的有心搜寻 However, if you really poke about and search hard,
仍会找到些许惊喜之处 there are some places that come up as a little bit of a surprise.
他在这里有很多作品 He did so much work when he was here,
大量的油画 水彩画和素描 so many paintings, so many watercolours, so many drawings,
如果你环顾四周 定会瞥见一些取景地 that if you look around you're bound to come across some of them,
就像这座动人的小桥 like this beautiful little bridge.
之所以选择这个不起眼的法国南部小镇 One of the chief reasons Vincent had chosen to
文森特的第一考虑就是 come to lowly Arles out of all the places he could have gone to the Southern France
这个小镇的女人 所谓的"阿尔勒娇娘" is because the town was famous for its women - les Arlesiennes they were called.
她们身着别致的黑色服饰 They wore picturesque black costumes
公认为法国最美丽的女子 and were said to be the most beautiful women in France.
文森特来到这里 却失望地发现 Vincent was disappointed to find when he got here,
小镇里真正动人的姑娘 that the town wasn't overrun by beautiful Arlesiennes,
并没有想象的多 as he'd imagined.
这成了他第一件耿耿于怀的事 It's one of the first things he complains about,
但他心有不甘 宁愿画饼充饥 but just as he was to edit Arles to fit his mental image of it,
于是 他把客居那家小店的老板娘 so the proprietress of the cheap bar he'd found rooms in,
那位纪诺夫人 Madame Ginoux, she was called,
幻想做梦中的"阿尔勒娇娘" was turned into the enticing Arlesienne of Vincent's imagination.
这位就是夜间酒吧的老板娘 This was a pub landlady who ran an all-night bar,
文森特对黑衣女子就是情有独钟 but Vincent, who'd always had this thing about women in black,
认为那样高贵而又深沉 makes her noble and thoughtful.
如果列举所有他垂青过的女人 If you line up all the women he ever yearned for,
就会发现她们有惊人的相似之处 you'll find a powerful family resemblance -
都是些忧郁且又饱经风霜的女人 sad dark women, with much on their mind,
这类女子是文森特的最爱 were Vincent's preferred type.
人们说他和纪诺夫人之间并未怎样 No one said anything happened between Vincent and Madame Ginoux,
我想也是如此 and I don't suppose it ever did,
但她的确是梵高喜欢的类型 but this was his kind of woman.
不过 仔细看看球桌的后方就会发现 But look closely at the back of this billiard scene
画得就是老板娘纪诺夫人 he painted of Madame Ginoux's all-night bar.
那不正是她吗 旁边不就是梵高吗 Isn't that her, and couldn't that be him?
文森特晚上喝酒 白天作画 In the nights Vincent drank, in the days he painted.
他离开阿尔勒最喜欢走塔拉斯贡路 This was his preferred route out of Arles, the Tarascon road.'
文森特画过一幅自己走向这里的作品 Vincent did a painting of himself striding into these fields.
遗憾的是 在二战期间被毁掉了 Unfortunately, it was destroyed in the Second World War,
也许这是梵高作品的一个巨大损失 perhaps the greatest loss that has been in Van Gogh's art.
这是一幅令人动容的景象 It's such a poignant image,
如农夫一般 迢迢赶去做画 trooping off to work like a peasant farmer.
我真希望能给你看真品 但却只有这个 I really wish I could show you the real thing, but we've got this.
一个有心人在真品烧毁前的拍照 Someone had the wit to take a photograph before it was burnt.
文森特身着油彩点点的蓝工装 戴着草帽 Vincent in his splattered blue overalls and straw hat,
手拿画具 活像帕丁顿车站的杂工 lugging around his painting gear like a porter at Paddington station.
天气炎热 还要带着各种画具 As he trudged along these roads in this heat,
走在路上 实属不易 weighed down with painter's luggage,
难怪文森特想要减轻画具的重量 It's not surprising, Vincent started to look for ways of losing some of that luggage.
但不管怎样 颜料和画布总是准备不足 In any case, he was running out of paint and canvas,
而他创作欲又如此之强 he was so alarmingly prolific,
好在文森特心灵手巧 but, with a typical piece of Vincent ingenuity,
很快发现一种户外作画的新方法 he soon found a new way to work outdoors.
幸运的是 阿尔勒道路两旁 Luckily for him, the road sides of Arles
长满了这种东西 卡玛格芦苇 are overgrown with these things - the Camargue reed.
文森特知道 Vincent knew that Rembrandt
伦勃朗就曾用苇秆画出过优秀作品 had used reeds and made great works with them.
更重要的是 它们随处可见 The thing is, they're absolutely everywhere,
免费而且取之不尽 they're free, plentiful,
削成画笔非常容易 and they're terribly easy to turn into pens.
只需一把小刀 All you need is a knife,
和一根结实的苇秆 看吧 a decent stout reed and look at that,
锐度非常好 it sharpens up so beautifully...
完美的笔尖 into a lovely point.
而且 这种画笔竟然无所不能 And they're surprisingly versatile.
当你看到文森特用芦苇完成的画作 When you look at Vincent's drawings, the reed drawings he did here,
那些顿彩 那些点和线条 the stippling, the dots, the lines,
都能很好表现出成堆的干草 they really do represent the hay fallen over,
成熟的庄稼 以及繁茂的树木 the harvest growing, trees blossoming.
他很擅长用苇秆绘画 He really was so masterful with this
而这也体现了一个事实 and there's something very fitting about the fact
那就是自然的恩惠成就了 that this stuff gathered from nature's bounty should be responsible
梵高在阿尔勒的众多精美作品 for so many of his most delicate Arles pictures.
如此轻巧 So light to carry around.
如此便捷 So easy.
这样就成了 There you go.
文森特故地
这里是蒙马儒 高地上一处古老遗迹 This is Montmajour, a complex of medieval ruins on a hill,
在这里 隔着克劳平原 from which there are splendid views of Arles
可以俯瞰阿尔勒的美景 in the distance with the plain of the Crau in between.
文森特曾在此用苇秆完成一幅精美画作 Vincent produced one of his finest reed pen drawings from this point.
这里距离阿尔勒并不近 He walked here, a considerable journey from Arles,
文森特和轻步兵少尉米列埃步行至此 with his soldier friend, 2nd Lieutenant Milliet, the zouave,
然后给这位朋友讲解美术 to whom Vincent was now giving drawing lessons.
芦苇笔无法用于彩绘 Reed pen is black and white,
但是 当两人眺望这片美景之时 but when the two of them looked down at this great vista
定然看到了灿灿的金光 they must have noted how yellow it was,
看到了麦田 还有收割者 the harvesters, the wheat fields.
在这片金色的海洋里 And in this golden sea,
也许还点缀着摇曳多姿的黄色斑斓 some particularly vivid patches of yellow would have stood out.
这只是一种廉价经济作物 It's just a cheap cash crop here,
大面积栽培 榨成油后用来炸制香肠 grown in bulk to make cooking oil for frying sausages,
但是 当它们遇上了梵高 but when van Gogh had done with it,
这种一文不名的黄色花朵 this cheap yellow cash crop would have been
便摇身幻为美术史上的一朵奇葩 transformed into the most famous flower ever painted.