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本杰明·韦斯特是蜚声国际的第一位美国画家。他本是18世纪美国荒野老林的乡下佬,后来竟成为英国上流社会的座上客。他的传奇生涯到他81岁高龄时才向人们吐露出来。一介村夫 18世纪40年代,宾夕法尼亚的切斯特县还是一个蛮荒之地,那时韦斯特是一个整天在森林草地里游荡的赤脚顽童。有一天,他遇到一群印第安人,他们教他如何涂出红色和黄色。从此韦斯特就把这两种颜色运用到他的画中。不久,他的母亲又给了他靛蓝染料,这样他就拥有了三种基本色彩。然后他又从父亲的一只猫的尾巴上弄下一些毛,绑成他的第一支画笔。这段轶事不仅刻画了韦斯特其人,也说明了绘画艺术同荒野边疆的密切关系。 1763年25岁时,韦斯特到了伦敦。这个没有
Benjamin West is the world’s first American painter. He was a countryman of 18th-century American wilderness forests and later became a guest of the upper class in Britain. His legendary career revealed to people when he was 81 years old. A village husband In the 1840s, Chester County, Pennsylvania was still a barren land, when West was a barefoot urchin wandering all day in the forest. One day he met a group of Indians who taught him how to paint red and yellow. Since then, West put these two colors into his paintings. Soon, his mother gave him indigo dye, so that he has three basic colors. Then he took some hair from the tail of one of his father’s cats and tied it into his first brush. This anecdote not only depicts the West but also shows the close relationship between the art of painting and the wild frontier. When she was 25 in 1763, West arrived in London. This does not