【温斯洛】英语学习｜名画《送给老师的向日葵》赏析｜温斯洛荷马WinslowHomer

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We present today's work and description thanks to the Georgia Museum of Art.

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内战结束后的十年里，温斯洛·荷马画了几幅非裔美国人的照片，其中包括这幅。在这个小巧而私密的形式中，荷马展示了一个孤独的黑人孩子，穿着部分撕裂和修补的衣服，坐在郁郁葱葱的绿色森林中的木头上。男孩双臂交叉在手腕上，好像被束缚了一样，右手拿着一朵大而艳丽的向日葵。一只象征自由和蜕变的帝王蝶停在男孩的左肩上。尽管是家长式的形象，但也说明了黑人公民教育的重要性以及实现它的难度。

In the decade following the conclusion of the Civil War, Winslow Homer painted several images of African Americans, including this one. In this small, intimate format, Homer shows a lone child, wearing partially torn and patched clothing, sitting on a wood log in a lush green forest. With his arms crossed at the wrists as if bound, the boy holds a large, brilliant sunflower in his right hand. A monarch butterfly, a symbol of freedom and of metamorphosis, rests on the boy’s left shoulder. The image, although paternalistic, speaks to the importance of education for Black citizens as well as the difficulty in achieving it.

在重建时期，黑人公民需要基本的识字技能来确保他们自己的权利，甚至在战争结束之前，南方的许多地方就已经出现了专门为被解放的人开设的学校。 1867 年 11 月 9 日的《哈珀周刊》刊登了一篇文章，称：“字母表是废奴主义者。如果你想让一个人被奴役，就拒绝教他们阅读。

”During the Reconstruction era, basic literacy skills were required for Black citizens to secure their own rights, and schools dedicated to freed people emerged in many parts of the South even before the war ended. The November 9, 1867, edition of Harper’s Weekly included an article stating, “The alphabet is an abolitionist. If you would keep a people enslaved refuse to teach them to read.”

温斯洛·荷马（1836年2月24日至1910年9月29日）是一位美国风景画家和版画家，以其海洋题材而闻名。他被认为是19世纪美国最杰出的画家之一，也是美国艺术中的杰出人物。

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art.

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