墨西哥湾流 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	墨西哥湾流
品名（英）	The Gulf Stream
入馆年号	1906年，06.1234
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Winslow Homer【1836 至 1910】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1899 - 公元 1906
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尺寸	28 1/8 x 49 1/8 英寸 (71.4 x 124.8 厘米) Framed: 42 5/16 x 62 11/16 x 5 7/8 英寸 (107.5 x 159.3 x 15 厘米)
介绍（中）	荷马全神贯注于海洋的力量，无论是在缅因州海岸的家中还是在旅行时，他都经常将海洋作为自己的艺术主题。墨西哥湾流是以强烈的大西洋洋流命名的，这股洋流连接了他喜欢绘画的许多地方。霍默在1884年和1898年冬季访问巴哈马时，多次穿越墨西哥湾流，绘制了素描和水彩画，以此为基础描绘了这场即将发生的灾难的戏剧性场景。一名男子在一艘破旧的、没有舵的渔船上面临死亡，船上只有几根甘蔗，同时受到鲨鱼和远处龙卷风的威胁。他没有注意到左侧地平线上的纵帆船，荷马后来将其添加到构图中，作为救援希望的象征。这幅画是在1898年父亲去世后不久绘制的，被认为是艺术家对死亡和脆弱感的表达。《墨西哥湾流》还提到了时代战争、奴隶制遗留问题和美帝国主义的一些复杂社会和政治问题，以及对人类生命脆弱性和自然主导地位的更普遍的担忧。
介绍（英）	Homer was preoccupied with the power of the ocean, and often made it the subject of his art, whether at home on the coast of Maine or while traveling. The Gulf Stream is named after the strong Atlantic current that connected many of the locales where he liked to paint. Homer based this dramatic scene of imminent disaster on sketches and watercolors he had made during winter trips to the Bahamas in 1884 and 1898, after crossing the Gulf Stream several times. A man faces his demise on a dismasted, rudderless fishing boat, sustained by only a few stalks of sugarcane, while threatened by sharks and a distant waterspout. He is oblivious to the schooner on the left horizon, which Homer later added to the composition as a sign of hopeful rescue. Painted shortly after the death of his father, in 1898, the painting has been interpreted as an expression of the artist’s presumed sense of mortality and vulnerability. The Gulf Stream also references some of the complex social and political issues of the era—war, the legacy of slavery, and American imperialism—as well as more universal concerns with the fragility of human life and the dominance of nature.