情迷画色

不可否认Desperate Romantics还是挺忠于史实的，但毕竟是电视剧，难免为了戏剧效果有所夸张或者忽略。拉斐尔前派这三个人——BBC还有个讲拉斐尔前派的纪录片，Millias那边的八卦第二集中间那段讲的就蛮清楚的。而且今年后半年还有Dakota Fanning老萝莉出演的《Effie》，讲的就是他老婆的事儿，到时候再说也不迟。至于Hunt，他的八卦虽然也挺劲爆（比如后来娶了自己老婆的妹妹），其实不如在艺术史上的成就有趣。后人一般当做印象派才开始的创举性的技巧：在刷白的画布上作画，其实最早的实践者是Hunt（比如剧里面那只被嘲讽了的羊，就是用了这种技巧才画很强烈的光感与spirituality，其实是拉斐尔前派最重要的作品之一）。顺带一提，虽然剧名叫Desperate Romantics，拉斐尔前派的创作很多时候是被归类在Realism里面的，或者是在Romantism的第二阶段后期。所以，最值得八卦的还是剧里的主角，Dante Gabriel Rossetti，还有他的那些女模特兼职情人们，艺术史上统称“Fair Ladies”。其实看Rossetti的画，明显能看出来他喜欢的都是很典型的一类女人长相——不看发色的话，我常常分不清他画的到底是哪个模特，反正就是张鞋拔子脸再加上一大坨头发。但毫无疑问，模特中对他作品、乃至对整个拉斐尔前派影响最大的就是Lizzie (Elizabeth) Siddal。关于Lizzie的八卦实在太多了，和当时的艺术圈、文学圈都有交叉，有兴趣的话也有不少传记可以读。就讲两点，一个是她和Rossetti其实应该是“爱过”的，刚结婚那段时间，小两口天天腻歪在一起反社会不见人，还给对方取了粘不拉几的外号，"小白鸽"“Gug”“Guggums”什么的，(最后这个还美名远扬，人人都知道，Ford Madox Brown还有Richard Aldington什么的都在信里这么叫过Lizzie)，Rossetti还给Lizzie画过数不胜数的素描和速写和油画，而且都是（按照他那个鞋拔子脸审美）美化过的，一股子休闲古典的奢华贵妇调调，但实际上Lizzie就是个一心想嫁给上流社会最好再能学到一手艺术技艺的灰姑娘，给自己的自画像也没Rossetti笔下那么好看。另一个，则是关于最后挖坟那段的。这事儿是真的，但Rossetti其实不是Lizzie一被埋就挖坟的，而是过了整整八个月。那段时间Rossetti日子也不好过，老婆死了，丑闻四起，事业衰退，不仅仅没人买他的画，甚至连视力都有严重下降，这简直是给一个画家的职业生涯判了死刑。本来在他还活着的时候，Rossetti作为一个诗人比他作为一个画家更有名，或许也更有才华，所以他当时就想着赶紧多出点诗集，赚钱涨名声。（毕竟那个时候，他的后辈，在剧中也有重要戏份的William Morris，写诗已经要比他有名气多了。）但他死活也写不出什么好诗，就想打埋进去那本草稿的主意——Rossetti写诗其实是很认真的，往往改个没完没了，到死也没修好。他默写了几首，但最长、也是他自认为最好的那首“Jenny”却怎么也想不起来，最后无奈之下，再加上前面提到的Ford Madox Brown的鼓励，后者还帮他打点好政府关系好去盗墓而免去牢狱之灾，就把那本诗集挖出来了。那首“Jenny”，虽然因为放在棺材里太久浸水腐烂了不少（这也是和剧里的出入点之一），到最后被修复的好好的，诗集出版并大获成功。当时知道这事儿的人——他哥William Rossetti，Ford Madox Brown， Bell Scott还有Jane Morris——这些人在之后也会提到，他们都挺支持挖坟的。Rossetti也给自己找借口，说一些“如果Lizzie还活着的话也会支持我这么做的，因为她就是特别看重这些事儿。要是鬼魂也能动，她肯定刚一被埋下去就把这诗集放到我枕头边上了；要是鬼魂也能动，她早就把自己的坟墓打开，不需要我们动手了。”这样的话。不论这话真假，Rossetti其实也是自知理亏的，这事儿就像闹鬼一样缠着他，“Lizzie把坟墓打开把诗集放到我枕头边上”的想象远比任何监狱更可怕。一直到死，Rossetti也没忘了这事儿，他写到，“无论如何也不要把我埋在Highgate”，而那正是Lizzie埋葬的地方。至于Rossetti第二个女人，那个胖胖的妓女Fanny Cornworth，她其实就是个普通的家庭主妇，不是什么妓女。不过老公是个酒鬼，所以过的也很惨，也是那种被发掘做模特就感激涕零，以为自己真的从灰姑娘变成白雪公主的女人。她的性格和剧里是很像的，非常生机勃勃，非常泼辣火爆，但可没剧里面那股子豁达苦情，真人成天吃Rossetti的飞醋，闹得拉斐尔前派内部一时间鸡飞狗跳。顺带一提，剧里面Hunt那位Annie Miller也不是什么妓女，就是个哥们三常去的酒馆的吧台女，Hunt那副非常erotica的the Hireling Shepherd也不真的是她来当的模特，而是找了个乡下女工。剧里面Rossetti的第三个女人是Jane Morris，前面讲到支持Rossetti挖坟的人之一，William Morris的老婆。她性格比较像Lizzie，也是穷人家的姑娘，苍白安静，有点忧郁，大名鼎鼎的George Bernard Shaw（就是萧伯纳啦）曾描述她作“the silentest woman [he had] ever met （他所见过的最安静的女人）”。Rossetti和她搞上的时候还和Lizzie好着呢，分开了也天天写信，成天从诗词歌赋谈到人生哲学。最后是主角（？）Fred Waters——不是说他是“Fair Ladies”之一啊——那个角色是虚构的，据Chloe Johnson的研究，是Frederic George Stephens, William Michael Rossetti（前面提到的他哥）和Walter Deverell的混合体，从名字上也可见一斑。但我个人觉得至少也有点Ford Madox Brown的影响，因为最后掘墓那段Fred角色的作为和Ford真人的作为是有很多重合的，历史上就是Ford为了避免给Rossetti带来丑闻，把Lizzie自杀遗言烧掉了。话说回来，这个剧的小细节做的真的很好，比如大胖哥William Morris的部分，剧里面有一个大家一起喝酒的桥段，Rossetti拍了拍Morris的肩膀随口表扬了句“你这个纹样画的很不错啊”，然后Morris一脸“卧槽偶像表扬了我的设计OMG”的样子。而实际上除了写诗很赞还很会搞社会学政治学之外，历史上Morris的最大成就，就是来自他杰出的书籍图案纹样设计。你在google图片搜索搜一下William Morris就知道了。

这片讲的是一群艺术青年的故事，是的，我原来是被海报上的一群长相可嘉的男人吸引的，一看是英国拍的，心想。。。应该和阿福和阿华的故事，亚瑟和魔林的故事一样大有可萌吧，毫不犹豫的下载了全集。。。ho no 全然不是那么回事ho yes 这片也不是一无是处首先，看到艺术史中的画作是如何诞生的还挺有意思的，更别提看到耳熟能详的几位画家长得那么活色生香，还有拉斯金、狄更斯、威廉莫里斯等人作了大为添彩的客串了。虽然本人对拉斐尔前派的理念和行动的一致性有所怀疑，我的确还是喜欢他们的画面的。影片的结束正好有如王受之老师描述的，为了抚慰rosetti受伤的心灵，莫里斯叫他和自己老婆三人一起住了。。。其次，本片重申了一条亘古不变的真理，珍爱生命，远离艺术男青年。虽然事实是，即便如此，又有几个艺术女青年能逃脱这一魔咒呢？于是事实的真理是，每个小有成就的艺术男青年身后都有一群他妈的悲催的艺术女青年，或宽容和憎恨着丫们。罗塞蒂未免被刻画的太混账了一些，但是事实上彻底的混账要好过半混账不混账的伪君子（看，多么典型的自找型女人思维）。。。第三，这片看得我很想画画。-完-PS。。。我想看文艺复兴美术三杰的JQ啊！！！！！！miche和rafa绝对有JQ啊！！！！！！！！

On summer holiday I’ve seen several American and British TV-series: sensuous True blood (vampire theme), exciting Babylon hotel which is an encyclopedic depiction of London life; and this one, which is my favorite ----the desperate romantics.Art and passion are almost the most attracting and glamorous elements in my life. To some point, they are the source of my inspiration and the incentive of my endeavor. A place without art and passion is dreadful for me to live at. So you can understand my enthusiasm for this TV series. I strongly recommend it to you not only due to my preference for it, but also because it tells us some truth of love and passion. The hero and narrator of the TV series is the shy but sweet journalist. I have to mention that all the leading characters are so bloody handsome!!! The journalist is in love of the angelic model he recommended to his artistic friend---one of the three painters. But it was this painter who wins her heart and she died for him at last. “No art exists before it suffers.” By her death she became his beloved woman forever and completed her path to art. The desperate romantics never stop seeking for new inspirations. Artists are born to love and create, so they are very likely to be burned by their own passions. They fall in love with their art rather than their lover. Frankly speaking, we all love ourselves more than the one we love. We love someone because he or she has something that we are always longing for. The most handsome and selfish painter who married the most beautiful female in the series never cherished her. He married her to save her and his own reputation. How sad it is! Reputation is usually more important to women, but it is always men who care so much about it. All over the world there are so many brave women who are willing to die for love while the men are always so coward, selfish and childish. A friend of mine told me that for a man there are always things which are much more important than love. I do agree with him. Love is rarely the most important thing for a man, but it is usually everything for a woman. So the most charming and talented woman died for love while her man just grieved for some time and then lived happily ever after. Another love story in this series is the relationship between the tall and shy painter and his partner who is a prostitute. He loves her a lot but he is always shamed of her identity and wants to make her into a lady. She became a lady for him but still cannot grasp his love. His pride and vanity stop him from marring her, so he asked her to disappear in his city. How selfish a man can be! When he needs a woman, he does everything to please her and change her into his taste; but when he does not want her, he escapes and betrays her in such a cruel way. And for the reserved journalist, he is always too shy to chase the model he loved for so long. I have to say that sometimes a kind person is very likely to be defeated by an evil one. But we also have to admit that love story is sometimes written by god. The model and the libertine artist are made for each other and she is determined to love him at any cost. Destiny is just like this. That is why they are called desperate romantics.

看完《情迷画色》，我忍不住去查了拉斐尔前派兄弟会的历史。不是因为它拍得像教科书，恰恰相反——它让我觉得那帮19世纪的艺术青年，跟我大学时玩乐队的朋友没什么两样：穷、疯、自以为是，为理想吵架，为女人打翻醋坛子。豆瓣评分7.5，我觉得低了，但也能理解——这剧的节奏确实慢得像维多利亚时代的下午茶，6集每集60分钟，没点耐心可能撑不到第三集。导演Diarmuid Lawrence没把艺术家供上神坛，而是让他们穿着沾满油彩的衣服在肮脏的伦敦街头跑。艾丹·特纳演的罗塞蒂，简直把“天才的混蛋”演活了——他画着濒死的恋人，转头就去嫖妓。这种不完美，反而让那些名画背后的故事有了血肉。观众反馈里提到“复古美学质感较高”，这不是客套话。服化道简直像从维多利亚时代偷来的：褪色的天鹅绒、烛光下的暗影、颜料盘上凝固的钴蓝。那种潮湿阴冷的伦敦氛围，隔着屏幕都能闻到霉味。不过我也同意有人说的“部分人物关系刻画稍显凌乱”——比如拉斐尔前派和拉斐尔画派之间的对立，剧里一笔带过，对不了解艺术史的人可能有点懵。但这点小毛病不影响它让我上头。当米莱斯对着《奥菲莉娅》的模特大吼“你他妈别动！”的时候，我突然觉得艺术不再是一堆博物馆里冷冰冰的杰作，而是几个年轻人用血泪和荷尔蒙砸出来的。制片人把这剧叫做“拿着画板的《明星伙伴》”，贴切得不能再贴切——名利场、嫉妒、背叛、爱情，古今皆同。所以，如果你受够了《艾米丽在巴黎》那种浮夸的艺术家生活，不如看看150年前伦敦这群人是怎么搞艺术的。虽然节奏慢得像蜗牛，但看完你会觉得，那些挂在墙上的画，突然有了心跳。