《至爱梵高》：向大师致敬

你或许从未看过像这样的一部传记片。

Loving Vincent, which came out on Dec 8 in Chinese mainland cinemas, is the world’s first hand-painted animated movie.

12月8日登陆中国大陆院线的《至爱梵高·星空之谜》是全球首部手绘动画电影。

Directed by British animator Hugh Welchman and Polish painter Dorota Kobiela, the movie tells the story of the final months of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). The story is told through more than 130 of the artist’s greatest paintings and the characters from them.

该片由英国动画师休·韦尔什曼以及波兰画家多洛塔·科别拉执导，讲述了荷兰艺术家文森特·梵·高(1853-1890)生命中最后几个月的故事。电影通过呈现这位艺术家130余幅伟大画作以及画中的人物，将这段往事娓娓道来。

The film invited 125 painters to create the animation, which uses 12 oil paintings per second. If a character turns their head, the head and shoulders will be taken off the main painting and redrawn to show movement.

这部电影邀请了125位画家来绘制动画，每秒使用12幅油画。如果画中的人物转身，其头部和肩部都要从底画上撤下，重新进行绘制来展现动作。

Simulating Van Gogh’s recognizable brushstrokes was important. So the 125 painters spent a lot of time in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, studying the application of the paint, the drying times and the texture of Van Gogh’s artworks. Their aim was to interpret his style, Welchman and Kobiela told The Independent.

模仿出梵高极具辨识度的笔锋至关重要。所以这125名画家花了大量时间，在荷兰阿姆斯特丹的梵高博物馆研究梵高艺术作品的上色手法、干燥时间以及纹理质感。韦尔什曼和科别拉在接受《独立报》采访时表示，他们的目标就是诠释梵高的风格。

In fact, people can easily understand how the artist was feeling at the time just by looking at his paintings. For example, in his most popular painting The Starry Night, Van Gogh expressed his anger and pain with strong, long brushstrokes.

事实上，看着梵高的画作，人们很容易就能理解他当时心中所感。比如，在他最受欢迎的画作《星空》中，梵高通过长有力的笔锋表达了自己的愤怒和痛苦。

Using hundreds of letters written by the painter to write the movie’s storyline, Welchman and Kobiela believed that Van Gogh’s unconfirmed last days were where Loving Vincent’s focus should lie.“The thing that was dramatic for me was that in his last seven months … he’d sold his first painting for a decent sum of money. His work was finally being appreciated by the painters around him,” Welchman told The Independent. “It was obvious that he was going to succeed. It was a matter of time. It just seems so tragic.”

基于梵高所写的数百封书信，韦尔什曼和科别拉创作了这部电影的故事情节。他们认为，梵高未经考证的最后日子应是《至爱梵高·星空之谜》的焦点所在。“很戏剧性的一件事是，在梵高生命最后的7个月中……他的第一幅画作卖出了好价钱。他的作品终于被身边的画家所赏识，”韦尔什曼在接受《独立报》采访时表示。“很显然他会功成名就。这只是时间的问题。一切似乎都太悲情了。”

But as Van Gogh wrote in his last letter: “The truth is, we cannot speak other than by our paintings.” This is what Loving Vincent does – it lets his works tell the story of what he had inside his heart, and what happened to him in the end.

但正如梵高在他最后的书信中所写的那样：“事实上，我们只能通过画作发声，别无他法。”这正是《至爱梵高·星空之谜》所做的 —— 它让梵高的画作讲述了他内心的故事，以及他最后的经历。