"The Scream" is not screaming “呐喊”画中人并非在呐喊

中国日报英文点津 2019-04-09 19:55:19

The figure in Edvard Munch's iconic artwork, "The Scream", is not actually screaming, as is widely assumed, the British Museum said. Instead, it is reacting to a scream.

大英博物馆称，爱德华•蒙克的经典画作《呐喊》中的主人公其实不像人们普遍以为的那样，是在呐喊或尖叫，而是对尖叫作出反应。

Munch, a Norwegian artist, finished the first painting in 1893, but made several more versions.

挪威艺术家蒙克于1893年完成了第一幅《呐喊》画作，但之后又创作了其他几个版本。

Munch made clear what was going on in an inscription on a rarely seen black-and-white version of the image, which Munch annotated with the words "I felt the great scream throughout nature."

蒙克在一幅罕见的黑白版《呐喊》上题词道："我感觉到了划破大自然的宏伟呐喊"，这句话清楚表明了《呐喊》创作的本意。

According to Giulia Bartrum, who is curating a Munch exhibition at the British Museum which features the black-and-white lithograph, this shows that the figure is hearing the scream rather than making it.

据大英博物馆蒙克画展的策展人朱莉亚•巴图鲁姆介绍，蒙克画展中即将展出的这幅黑白版画表明，画中人是听到了尖叫，而不是在尖叫。

In the decades since, the image has morphed into a universal symbol for anxiety, and is clearly referenced in the "person screaming" emoji.

几十年来，这幅画演变成了焦虑的普遍象征，并因此衍生出了表情符号"尖叫者"。

According to the emoji tracker website, it is the 53rd most frequently used emoji.

"表情符号追踪者"网站显示，"尖叫者"在最常使用的表情符号中排第53位。

责编：田梦瑶

来源：中国日报英文点津

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