《故园风雨后》TeacherGwen230112

It was an ambitious subject for an amateur - an oval basin with an island of sculptured rocks at its centre; on the rocks grew, in stone, formal tropical vegetation, and wild English fern in its natural fronds; through them ran a dozen streams that counterfeited springs, and round them sported fantastic tropical animals, camels and camelopards and an ebullient lion, all vomiting water; on the rocks, to the height of the pediment, stood an Egyptian obelisk of red sandstone - but, by some odd chance, for the thing was far beyond me, I brought it off and, by judicious omissions and some stylish tricks, produced a very passable echo of Piranesi. 对于业余的人来说画出这幅景色是个艰巨的选题——一个椭圆形的盆地，盆地中央有一个经流水雕刻过的岩石构成的小岛屿；岩石的石缝里生长着正规的热带植物，还有野生的英格兰蕨类植物，就在它本身天然的叶片之间；十多条溪流冒充泉水穿过各类植物，各种奇异的热带动物在草木周遭嬉戏，有一些骆驼和一些长颈鹿，以及一只活力四射的狮子，它们都在吐水；岩石上还矗立着一座埃及的方尖石塔，有山墙那么高，是红砂岩材质的——但是，因缘际会，我成功完成了这件自己能力远不能及的事儿，靠着审慎的省略和一些时髦的技巧创作了一件相当过得去的呼应Piranesi大师的作品。