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品名（中）	平安夜（克尔斯特纳赫特）
品名（英）	Christmas Eve (Kerstnacht)
入馆年号	2022年，2022.15.1
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Theodorus van Hoytema【1863 至 1917】【荷兰人】
创作年份	公元 1894
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	18 11/16 × 12 1/16 英寸 (47.5 × 30.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	范霍伊特玛是十九世纪末荷兰最重要的设计师和石版画家。这些作品至今仍因其动物主题作品而在荷兰备受喜爱，在他那个时代也同样受到钦佩。作为荷兰新艺术运动的一部分，范霍伊特玛的《平安夜》和《新年》在200版中被制作成一对。圣诞夜描绘了两只猫头鹰在白雪皑皑的风景中，一群天鹅在头顶飞翔。倾斜猫头鹰和冬青树叶的边界装饰着图像的底部。新年里有很多鸟，一只白孔雀张开尾羽，三只鹅在一旁观察；上一张照片中的两只猫头鹰出现在底部，就好像它们在逃离新年。一只火鸡、一只大的黑孔雀和一只公鸡的连接图形形成了一条大曲线，使白孔雀更加丰满。这两幅作品都展示了日本艺术作品对作品的影响。Hoytema在这些作品中结合了使用石版蜡笔来定义较亮的区域，使用石版墨水来创建深色，以及在新年在火鸡和猫头鹰身上形成马赛克状图案。
介绍（英）	Van Hoytema was the most significant Dutch designer and lithographer at the end of the nineteenth century. Still beloved in Holland today for his animal-themed work, these pieces were equally admired in his time. Part of the Art Nouveau movement in Holland, Van Hoytema's Christmas Eve and New Year were produced as a matched pair in an edition of 200. Christmas Eve depicts two owls in a snowy landscape with a flock of swans flying overhead. A border of slanted owls and another of holly leaves decorate the bottom of the image. New Year includes a host of birds, a white peacock gloriously opens its tail feathers observed by three geese; the two owls from the previous print make an appearance on the bottom as though they are flying away from the New Year. The connecting figures of a turkey, a large dark peacock, and a rooster create a large curve that enframes the white peacock. Both works show the influence of Japanese artwork on the compositions. Hoytema combines in these works the use of lithographic crayon to define lighter areas and lithographic ink to create the darks as well as the mosaic-like patterning on the turkey and owls in the New Year.