静物：鱼 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	静物：鱼
品名（英）	Still Life: Fish
入馆年号	1908年，08.139.2
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	William Merritt Chase【1849 至 1916】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1907 - 公元 1908
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尺寸	40 1/8 x 45 1/16 英寸 (101.9 x 114.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	从1904年开始，蔡斯创作了许多大型鱼类静物画，通常是在他夏季的欧洲教学旅行中。这幅画以其慕尼黑早期的大胆笔触和深色调色板进行创作，展现了蔡斯同时代的法国艺术家安托万·沃伦以及17世纪西班牙静物的影响，沃尔伦也欣赏这些静物。画布上展示了一张桌子，上面有一个盘子，里面有一条条纹鲈鱼和一条三文鱼；一条虚弱的鱼直接躺在桌子上，一只碗出现在背景中。蔡斯的目标似乎是通过巧妙的技巧，让他所说的"一个有趣的话题变得如此吸引人和有趣，以至于人们会被你的方式所吸引"。 1917年3月在《新共和国》中写道，美国鉴赏家兼收藏家利奥·斯坦因（Leo Stein）评论了蔡斯的静物画："在所有非感性的静物中……它们的鼓鼓囊囊和横扫的线条最具表现力。蔡斯似乎对这条厚而柔软的鱼的膨胀和摆动感到了饱和的满足感。它们以较低的组织成本比一组较小或不太具表现力的物体产生了更大的效果。"
介绍（英）	Beginning in 1904, Chase made many large-scale still-life paintings of fish, usually during his summer teaching trips to Europe. Executed with the bravura brushwork and dark palette of his early Munich period, this painting shows the influence of Chase's contemporary, the French artist Antoine Vollon, and of the seventeenth-century Spanish still lifes that Vollon also appreciated. The canvas shows a tabletop with a plate containing a striped bass and a salmon; a weakfish lies directly on the table and a bowl appears in the background. Chase's goal seems to have been to make what he called "an uninteresting subject so inviting and entertaining by means of fine technique that people will be charmed at the way you've done it." Writing in "The New Republic" in March 1917, the American connoisseur and collector Leo Stein commented on Chase's still-life paintings of fish: "Of all non-sentimental still life . . . they are with their bulging mass and sweeping line the most expressive. Chase seems to take a saturated satisfaction in the swell and swing of the thick soft-bodied fish. They give far more result at a lesser price of organization than groups of smaller or less expressively shaped objects."