《中英對照讀新聞》Paris Exhibit Links Picasso And Bacon 巴黎展覽連接起畢卡索與培根

Without Picasso, Francis Bacon might never have taken up a paintbrush and thus deprived the world of one of the 20th century giants of the art world, according to a Paris exhibition.

沒有畢卡索，法蘭西斯．培根或許壓根兒不會拿起畫筆，世人也將因此失去一名二十世紀藝術世界的巨擘，根據一個巴黎展覽指出。

Bacon was just 18 when on a visit to Paris in 1927 he experienced an epiphany on seeing Pablo Picasso's drawings at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery. "They made a great impression on me," he wrote later. "I thought afterwards, well, perhaps I could draw as well."

當培根一九二七年造訪巴黎時只有十八歲。他在保羅．羅森柏格美術館觀賞巴柏羅．畢卡索的畫作時幡然頓悟。「它們留給我極深遠的印象」，他後來寫道。「之後我想，好吧，或許我也可以畫畫。」

The exibition "Bacon Picasso: A Life of Images" at the Picasso museum in the French capital has drawn together about 100 works by the two men to study the interaction of the Spaniard's art on that of the younger Bacon （1909-1992）.

在法國首都畢卡索美術館舉行的「培根•畢卡索：充滿圖像的生命」展覽，收集了兩人約一百件畫作，以探究這名西班牙畫家的藝術對晚輩培根（1909-1992）的影響。

The exhibition covers the early period of Bacon's work including the tritych "Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion" derived from Picasso's "Crucifixion". "Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint," Bacon once said.

這項展覽囊括了培根的早期作品，包括源於畢卡索的「耶穌受難」的三聯畫「以耶穌受難為本的三張習作」。「畢卡索是我作畫的原因，他是父親的形象，帶給我作畫的慾望，」培根曾經說。

Dictionary-新聞辭典

deprive：動詞，剝奪、奪取。例句 The criminal was deprived of his civil rights.（這名罪犯被褫奪公權。）

on a visit to：訪問、拜訪。例句 He went on a visit to his parents.（他拜訪他的父母。）

epiphany：為基督教的主顯節，在此引申為對事件本質或價值的頓悟。

draw：除可作動詞與名詞外，也有多重意義，在此意指徵集、吸引之意。例句：The sound drew my attention.（這個聲音吸引我的注意。）

derive from：導源於。例句：The spirit of his art is derived from the philosphy of pleasure.（他藝術的精神源於快樂哲學。）