 约翰·威廉·戈德沃德(John William Godward)1861-1922，是一位英国新古典主义艺术家，师承学院派大师弗雷德里克·莱顿和劳伦斯·阿尔玛·塔德玛等艺术家，他更鲜艳的色调和整体风格经常让他与拉斐尔前派混淆，但他实际上属于新古典主义风格。 戈德沃德最初是在当代艺术家威廉·克拉克·沃特纳的父亲的指导下学习建筑的，两位艺术家结下了终生的友谊，并为彼此提供了艺术支持和灵感。 戈德沃德钟情于重现古典罗马的理想主义场景。他喜欢穿着古典服装的女性，她们在古典罗马场景中带着忧郁的气息闲逛，通常被毛皮或大理石包围。由于戈德沃德对建筑风格和时代服装进行了大量研究，以使他的画作更加真实。他有很多富有的赞助人，包括古典维多利亚时期的学者和想要建立艺术收藏的新富翁。 戈德沃德早期的职业生涯很成功，并定期在伦敦皇家学院展出作品，并受到公众的热烈欢迎。然而，正如艺术的发展与社会发展一样，随着巴勃罗、毕加索等现代艺术家的出现，风格和思潮很快发生了变化，戈德沃德作品风格处于失势的境地。戈德沃德是创作出如此美丽作品的天才，然而造化弄人，61岁时，他自杀了，留下一张纸条，上面写着“世界对我和毕加索来说还不够大”。 戈德沃德的家人因为他令人伤心的结局而希望把他忘得一干二净，之后烧毁了他所有的个人资料和照片，如今仅存一张照片，他在很大程度上被遗忘在艺术史上，他的大部分生活仍然是个谜。  John William Godward was an English Neoclassical artist from who lived from 1861 to 1922. He studied under artists such as Frederic Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. His more vibrant color palette and overall style often gets him confused with Pre-Raphaelites, but he actually painted in the Neoclassical style. He was interested in recreating idealistic scenes of Classical Rome.  Godward had initially actually studied architecture under contemporary artist, William Clarke Wontner's father. The two artists formed a life-long friendship, and provided artistic support and inspiration for each other.  The favorite subjects for Godward were women in classical dress lounging about with an air of melancholy in a Classic Roman structure, usually surrounded by items of fur or marble. Since Godward was a classical scholar, he did a lot of research on architectural styles and period clothing to give his paintings more authenticity. He had a lot of wealthy patrons including other Victorian era scholars of the Classic age and newly rich people who wanted to build their art collections.  Godward was disowned by his family after he moved to Italy with one of his models and he was actually physically cut out from all their photographs. He had a successful career early on and regularly had pieces exhibited at the Royal Academy in London with positive public reception. However, as art is wont to do, the styles and schools of thought soon changed with the advent of modern artists such as Pablo Picasso.  For someone who created such beautiful works, Godward had a tragic end. At 61 years of age, he committed suicide, leaving a note that read “the world is not big enough for myself and Picasso”. Godward’s family, after already disproving of his career choice, burned all his personal papers and photographs after the disgrace of his suicide. He has largely been forgotten in the annals of art history and much of his life remains a mystery.      end |
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