蜜蜂的研究 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	蜜蜂的研究
品名（英）	Study of Beeches
入馆年号	1874年，74.13
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	John Frederick Kensett【1816 至 1872】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1872
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尺寸	14 3/4 x 10 3/8 英寸 (37.5 x 26.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅作品于1874年捐赠了38幅肯塞特的画作，统称为"去年夏天的作品"，其标题显然用词不当。这些树是桦树，有纹理的白色树皮和相对较薄的树叶，而不是山毛榉，有光滑的灰色树皮和茂密的树叶。这幅画具有在空中绘制的所有特征，很可能是在乔治湖畔绘制的，那里是肯塞特数十幅作品的完成地。令人惊讶的是，肯塞特在这里表现出了非凡的自发性，这似乎与他在工作室绘制的平静的湖岸景色中表现出的耐心、深思熟虑的技术人员不一致。另一方面，在艺术家完成的作品中，风景如画的海岸线的前景地块，通常由桦树或脆弱的针叶树组成，像这样的草图经常被告知，巧妙地用一种类似电荷的电荷来激活原本平静的基调。
介绍（英）	The title of this work, received with the donation in 1874 of thirty-eight Kensett paintings collectively known as "The Last Summer's Work," is evidently a misnomer. The trees are birches, with their textured white bark and relatively thin foliage, not beeches, with their smooth gray bark and dense foliage. The picture has all the hallmarks of having been painted en plein air, and may well have been executed on the shores of Lake George, the site of scores of Kensett's finished works. Surprisingly, but consistent with his draftsmanship especially of near-at-hand motifs, Kensett here evinced remarkable spontaneity seemingly at odds with the patient, deliberating technician revealed in his serene vistas of lake and shore painted in the studio. On the other hand, in the artist's finished compositions, the foreground parcels of picturesque shoreline—not infrequently composed of birches or brittle conifer trees—which sketches like this one often informed, serve subtly to animate with an electric-like charge the otherwise placid tenor that prevails.