大门,来自威尼斯的一组十二件蚀刻画

James McNeill Whistler American

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惠斯勒于1879年和1880年在威尼斯旅行时创作了这幅版画的铜版,这是伦敦美术学会委托他制作的十二件风景画之一。他先是小心翼翼地蚀刻出线条,并以直刻法加深,然后在印刷的过程中运用了两种颜色的墨水。黑色墨水用于描绘装饰拉法瓦运河上古索尼宫大门的线条。棕色墨水则以一种类似单版画的手法极富表现力地涂抹在金属板上只有寥寥几笔线条的地方,创造出前景中流水瞬息变幻的意境,以及台阶后面昏暗作坊中引人遐想的映像。

The Doorway, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), Etching, drypoint and roulette, printed in brownish-black ink on ivory laid paper; fourteenth state of twenty (Glasgow)

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