玛丽-史蒂文森-卡萨特，布面油画，1873年，芝加哥艺术博物馆藏，82.5x64cm
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. Before she befriended Edgar Degas and the rest of the crew inspired by Edouard Manet, however, she painted in a more realist way.
玛丽-史蒂文森-卡萨特（Mary Stevenson Cassatt）是一位美国画家和版画家。她出生在宾夕法尼亚州，但成年后大部分时间生活在法国，在那里她首先结识了埃德加-德加，后来在印象派画展中展出作品。卡萨特经常创作社会和私人生活中的女性绘画，特别是表现母子间的亲密关系。然而，在她与德加及其他受爱德华-马奈启发的成员成为朋友前, 她的绘画风格更加写实。
Cassatt chose a quintessentially Spanish subject, executing this painting of a torero in full regalia during an extended stay in Seville. Having trained in Philadelphia and Paris, Cassatt ventured alone to Spain to study the country’s masters and to follow the artistic path of modern painters (Manet was also fascinated by the Spanish culture). Depicting the bullfighter at a relaxed moment, far removed from the spectacle and violence of the ring, Cassatt elided narrative detail. Instead, with a modernist sensibility, she focused on the male figure in a casual pose and employed vigorous brushwork and rich pigment to describe his costume. The bullfighter’s characteristic bravado nevertheless hints at flirtation with a female counterpart outside the frame. Art Institute of Chicago
卡萨特选择了一个典型的西班牙主题，在塞维利亚的长期逗留期间，她完成了这幅身着盛装的斗牛士作品。在费城和巴黎接受训练后，卡萨特独自前往西班牙向该国大师学习，并沿着现代画家的艺术道路前行——顺便说一下马奈也对西班牙文化着迷。卡萨特描绘了斗牛士的放松时刻，远离了斗牛场壮观又暴力的场面，并省略了叙事情的细节。取而代之的是, 她以现代主义的敏感性，聚焦在一个姿势随意的男性人物身上，用有力的笔触和丰富的颜料描绘他的服装。然而斗牛士特有的虚张声势却暗示了他正与画面之外的女性同伴调情。
We present today's painting thanks to the Art Institute of Chicago. : )
感谢芝加哥艺术博物馆与我们分享今天的画作。:)
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