乔治·图克(George Tooker)高清作品《地铁》

作品名：地铁

艺术家：乔治·图克

年代：1950；美国

风格：魔幻现实主义

类型：风俗画

介质：彩画

尺寸：92.7×47厘米

收藏：惠特尼美国艺术博物馆，纽约市，纽约，美国

《地铁》是乔治·托克为回应战后城市社会的不公正和孤立而创作的具象绘画中最著名的一幅。在《地铁》中，Tooker运用了多个消失点和复杂的建模来创建一个想象的世界，这个世界呈现在熟悉的城市环境中。不管是在平铺的壁龛中封闭，还是在长长的通道中行走，每个双性同体、充满焦虑的人物看起来在心理上都疏远，尽管身体上与车站里的其他人很亲近。中间的一群通勤者被锁在金属栅栏投射的阴影中，而迷宫般的通道似乎无处可去，将城市居民吊死在现代炼狱中。正如托克所说，他选择地铁作为这幅画的背景，因为它代表了“对感官的否定和对生活本身的否定。”

Title:The Subway

artist:George Tooker

Date:1950; United States

Style:Magic Realism

Genre:genre painting

Media:tempera

Dimensions:47 x 92.7 cm

Location:Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, US

The Subway is the best known of the figurative paintings George Tooker made in response to the social injustices and isolation of postwar urban society—paintings that find an analogue in the period’s existentialist philosophy. In The Subway, Tooker employed multiple vanishing points and sophisticated modeling to create an imagined world that is presented in a familiar urban setting. Whether closed off in tiled niches or walking down the long passageway, each androgynous, anxiety-ridden figure appears psychologically estranged, despite being physically close to others in the station. The central group of commuters is locked in a grid of the metal grating’s cast shadows, while the labyrinthine passages seem to lead nowhere, suspending the city’s inhabitants in a modern purgatory. As Tooker remarked, he chose the subway as the setting for this painting because it represented “a denial of the senses and a negation of life itself.” Whitney Museum of American Art