约翰-埃弗雷特-米莱，布面油画，1868年，英国皇家艺术学院藏，102.7x82.4cm
Throughout his career, Millais painted children to provoke meditations on transience, beauty, and truth. This work was inspired by the prominent Spanish artist Diego Velázquez's mid-17th century portrait of the Infanta Maria Margarita, which also depicts a young girl in an ostentatious dress. By the late 1860s, Millais’s concern with creating a mood or atmosphere in his paintings corresponded with the ideals of the emerging Aesthetic movement, which championed the beautiful, sensual qualities of art and design over practical, moral, or narrative considerations.
在整个职业生涯中，米莱(Millais) 通过描绘儿童来引发对短暂、美和真理的沉思。这幅作品的灵感来自西班牙著名艺术家迭戈-委拉斯凯兹 (Diego Velázquez) 在十七世纪中叶创作的玛利亚-玛格丽特公主的肖像，那幅画也描绘了一位身着华丽衣裙的年轻女孩。在19世纪60年代后期，米莱关心的是在他的绘画中创造一种情绪或氛围，这与新兴的美学运动思想一致，该运动提倡艺术与设计的美丽和感性品质，而不是偏向实用、道德或叙事的考虑。
John Everett Millais was an English painter and illustrator who was best known as one of the artists who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. As a result of what have been called his "concessions to the sweetness of Victorian taste," he was made an associate of the Royal Academy in 1853. By the time he painted Portia, there was hardly a trace of the Pre-Raphaelite style in his work. Instead, he worked in an academic-realist manner and concentrated on the kinds of saccharine subjects that are now synonymous with Victorian painting.
约翰-埃弗雷特-米莱是一位英国画家和插图画家，因作为1848年创立拉斐尔前派兄弟会的艺术家之一而闻名。他被称为“对维多利亚时代甜美口味的妥协”，在1853年被任命为皇家学院的副院长。直到他创作《鲍西娅》时，他的作品几乎没有拉斐尔前派风格的痕迹了。取而代之的是，他以学院派现实主义的方式作画，专注于多愁善感的细腻哀婉主题。这类作品现在已经被等同于维多利亚时代的绘画。
We present today's painting thanks to the Royal Academy of Arts. : )
感谢英国皇家艺术学院与我们分享今天的画作。:)
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