费奥多尔·索伦采夫(Paul Kane)高清作品《The Constant Sky, Saulteaux》
作品名：The Constant Sky, Saulteaux
艺术家：费奥多尔·索伦采夫
年代：1856
风格：浪漫主义
类型：肖像
《永恒的天空》表现了将原始自然等同于“原始男人”的精髓浪漫主义理想。《永恒的天空》是一名土著妇女，坐在动物皮上，靠在树干上，她的孩子在她身边。巨大的树，交错的树枝，藤蔓，和保护性的叶子冠层，暗示了一个古老而未被破坏的景观。那是一个田园诗般的地方，一条像镜子的河流和谦逊的瀑布暗示着大自然的宁静和舒适的声音，这让她的生活方式安心了。在凯恩时代，关于原住民是一个“正在消失的种族”的所有假设中，人们怀疑凯恩的形象是否意味着对原住民存在永久性的肯定。从十九世纪的角度来看，这幅画中的清晨光线暗示着未来，强调了连续性的概念，这种概念既隐含在妇女的名字中，也隐含在孩子的存在中。凯恩可能借鉴了几个不同的个人经历来创作这幅画，他显然依赖于来自不同地区和部落的风景、人物和文化物品的素描。最终，凯恩从自己的田野草图里随意地借用草图是没有实际意义的，因为他的目标是超越特定事物，捕捉基本的道德真理。凯恩的阿卡迪亚景观，由绘画的，装饰性的黄金拱门构架，提供了对人类与自然之间的理想交流的沉思，这在当时被认为是体现在土著人民的生活。
Title:The Constant Sky, Saulteaux
artist:Paul Kane
Date:1856
Style:Romanticism
Genre:portrait
The Constant Sky projects the quintessential Romantic ideal that equates pristine nature with “primitive man.” An Aboriginal woman, The Constant Sky, sitting on an animal skin, leans against a tree trunk, her child by her side. The massive tree, with its intertwining branches, vines, and protective leaf canopy, suggests an ancient and unspoiled landscape. It is an idyllic locale, where a mirror-like river and the modest waterfall suggest the calm and comforting sounds of nature that reassure The Constant Sky of her way of life. For all the assumptions made during Kane’s time about the Aboriginal people being a “vanishing race,” one wonders if Kane’s image is meant to be an affirmation of the permanence of the Aboriginal presence. Seen from a nineteenth-century perspective, the early morning light in this painting alludes to the future, underscoring the idea of continuity that is implicit in both the woman’s name and the presence of the child. Kane may have drawn on several different personal experiences to create this painting; he apparently relied on sketches of landscapes, figures, and cultural objects from different regions and tribes. Ultimately Kane’s random borrowing from his own field sketches is moot, as his goal was to transcend the particular and capture an essential moral truth. Kane’s Arcadian landscape, framed by a painted, decorative arch of gold, offers a meditation on the ideal communion between humankind and nature, which at the time was thought to be manifest in the lives of the Aboriginal people.