Lindos, Rhodes《羅德島林多斯》

愛藝/譯

In 1867， Frederic Leighton made a trip to Asia Minor. On his return journey through Greece he visited the island of Rhodes. Here he made an oil paint sketch of Lindos， a coastal town known for its ancient clifftop acropolis. The view that he painted is looking down from the clifftop， away towards a rocky promontory.

1867年，弗雷德里克·萊頓到小亞細亞旅行。返途經過希臘時，他造訪了羅德島。在島上，他畫了一幅沿海小鎮林多斯的油畫素描，該鎮以其古老的崖頂衛城而聞名。畫中風景由崖頂俯視而得，正面朝向一處多巖石的海岬。

The colour scheme is similar to? ?Capri Sunrise1， with yellow-ochre， peach， mauve and blue combining to make an engaging and attractive setting.

此畫配色與《卡普里日出》相似，土黃、桃紅、淡紫和天藍組合成迷人的背景，令人陶醉。

Most interestingly is the manner in which space is described in this painting. The nearness of the buildings in the lower section provides a strong visual structure， since the lines of perspective are strongly emphasized through their pos-itioning. The vanishing point is clearly somewhere in the middle of the painting; in this way， the strip of land reaching into the sea cuts across this perspective so that the land seems to move in oppos-ition to the dynamic of the perspective. It is fascinating push-pull effect that gives added life to the painting.

最有意思的是畫中對空間的呈現方式。畫面下方近處的建筑群展現了牢固的視覺結構，這是因為精心布局的透視線顯得特別突出。消失點顯然在畫面中間的某處；這樣一來，延伸入海的狹長陸地在這個透視中央橫切一道，由此，那片陸地看似與透視的運動軌跡相逆而行。這樣的推拉效果令人著迷，為此畫增添了更多生氣。