现代艺术中的肖像：小幅临摹
我们此前已体验过临摹艺术家风格与技法的益处；本次则带领七年级学生深入研究肖像画。尤其聚焦于非写实肖像——即艺术家以独特而个性的方式对人面所作的诠释性描绘。尤其是自艺术先锋派兴起以来，肖像不再仅是“对真人形象的复制”，而逐渐成为探究人物心理的途径，并为更自由的视觉表达提供了契机。
在选定一系列涵盖印象派、先锋派艺术家直至1940年代肖像的作品后，我们尝试用彩铅临摹这些小幅画作（彩色打印稿尺寸约为12×18厘米）。
待勾勒出画面主要轮廓线后，每位学生均努力还原原作的色彩与风格，力求忠实再现其明度层次与笔触特征。
对一件艺术作品进行尽可能忠实的临摹，无疑是深入理解该作品的有效手段——正如我们此前曾用蛋彩颜料临摹大幅作品时所实践的那样（参见本文 HERE）。
事实上，在艺术领域，临摹历来是学习绘画与造型的重要方法；自古以来，艺术家便习惯伫立于原作前进行临摹。我们确知，写生是理解现实世界的极佳途径（参见达·芬奇以来关于解剖学与植物学的诸多研究……）。即便在今日，尽管我们拥有大量可即时复制图像的技术工具，仍常见有人端坐于博物馆中，面对原作悉心临摹——通过这种复现过程，向大师学习。
创作出这些小幅杰作的男孩与女孩们，表现实在令人惊叹！
The Portrait in Modern Art: Small Copies
We have already experienced how useful it is to copy styles and techniques from artists, this time with the Year 7Th students we studied the portraiture. In particular we looked for NON-REALISTIC portraits, paintings of faces INTERPRETED by artists in a unique and personal way. Especially from the artistic Avant-gardes onwards, the portrait is no longer just a copy from life, but becomes a way to investigate the psychology of the subject, and becomes a pretext for freer interpretations.
After choosing a series of portraits ranging from Impressionism to the Avant-garde artists, until the portraits of 1940s, we tried to copy these small artworks (the color print is about 12x18cm) with colored pencils.
Once the main lines of the drawing were traced, each student tried to copy the colors and style of the painting, trying to be as faithful as possible to the shades and strokes of the painting.
Making the most faithful copy of an artwork is certainly an useful tool for gaining a deep understanding of that work, as in the case of larger works that we copied with tempera (see the article HERE).
In fact, in art, copying has always been used to learn how to draw and paint; the practice of standing in front of a work of art and copying it has been used habitually since artists have existed. We know for sure that drawing from life is an excellent tool for understanding reality (see the studies of anatomy and botany from Leonardo da Vinci onwards…). Even today, despite all the tools for immediate reproduction of images at our disposal, we still find someone sitting in museums in front of a work of art, copying it and learning from the great artists through the reproduction.
The boys and girls who created these little masterpieces were truly amazing!
