查尔斯·希勒(Charles Sheeler)高清作品《水》

作品名：水

艺术家：查尔斯·希勒

年代：1945

风格：精确主义

类型：城市风貌

介质：油画

尺寸：61 x 74 cm

水是田纳西河谷管理局在上世纪30年代建造的发电机之一，当时美国田纳西河地区正在分配水电。Sheeler作为摄影师的经历影响了他的精确主义绘画风格，在精确主义绘画风格中，他强调物体的几何形状以硬边、明亮的方式。对于Sheeler来说，这些纪念性的、流线型的形式体现了人类在控制自然力量方面的独创性。他对美国工业的解释多少有些理想化：工人从未露面，机器是原始的、闪烁的，没有任何污垢和烟雾。Sheeler在写作时表达了他对科技情感象征主义的感受：每个时代都通过一些外部的证据来表现自己。在我们这样一个似乎只有少数人信奉宗教的时代，必须找到哥特式大教堂之外的其他形式。工业界关注最多的数字——正如已经说过的，我们的工厂是我们宗教表达的替代品(引用于Constance Rourke, Charles Sheeler: Artist in AmericanTradit, 1938)。

Title:Water

artist:Charles Sheeler

Date:1945

Style:Precisionism

Genre:cityscape

Media:oil

Dimensions:61 x 74 cm

Water depicts one of the power generators built by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s, when hydroelectric power was being distributed throughout the Tennessee River region of the United States. Sheelers experience as a photographer influenced his Precisionist style of painting, in which he emphasized the geometric shapes of objects in a hard-edged, clearly lit manner. For Sheeler, these monumental, streamlined forms signified human ingenuity in harnessing natures power. His interpretation of American industry was somewhat idealized: workers are never shown, and the machinery is pristine and gleaming, free of any dirt or smoke. Sheeler expressed his feelings about the emotional symbolism of technology when he wrote: Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers—it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression (quoted in Constance Rourke, Charles Sheeler: Artist in the American Tradition, 1938).