“Here lies one whose name was writ in water”——一位用水来书写其姓名的人，长眠于此。
This is the epitaph of the English romantic poet Keats, who was slowly killed by tuberculosis at the age of 26.
Fortunately, although Keats's life was short, he tasted and possessed a like-minded love in his short life, where body and soul danced together; Fortunately, in his short life, he had a loving and warm friendship, and everyone pooled the money to send him to the Mediterranean to enjoy the milder weather...
Life is sometimes like a bubble that shines brightly when it flies into the sky and then dies quickly, "when a person dies, it is like water disappearing into water"......
In fact, Keats's epitaph is bitter, Keats died young, he was young and ambitious, he longed to create a great work to leave a name in the world, but unexpectedly after the arrival of love, lingering on the sickbed, and finally left this sentence: here lies one whose name was writ in water, softly telling his unwillingness and sorrow, not some people translate "Those who sleep here are famous on the water." "Merit and fame are just a passing eye......
What Keats wants to express here is that he will be forgotten, just like a name written with water, "writ in water" can also be used to express "writing".
There is also an allusion to Keats's epitaph, which Keats used as his epitaph, based on the tragicomedy "The Philadelphians" or "Love Bleeds" written by Beaumont and Fletcher in the 1620 century, in which the king sentenced Filaste and his daughter Arethusa to death, and Philaster pleaded with the king to save Arethusa.
"As far as your life is concerned, all your good deeds should be written on water, but this is on marble.
Therefore, the "writ in water" in Keats's epitaph should be the opposite of "carved in stone", as Philaster said in the scene of "Love is Bleeding": "Live like you, all good deeds should be in the form of water, but here it is marble; No chronicle will tell you, not even your own.
There will be no monument to the disgrace of mankind to cover up this despicable murder: to make it rich with brass, pure gold, and glitter; Jasper is like a pyramid; Lying on the tabernacles, like a great man becoming a god; The little stones that buried me (covering only my ashes, but not my faults) will shine on it from afar. And because of the problems later, don't be so crazy about those heavy wisdoms, they will give you more anger to cut off.
Not to mention what kind of snake, or something like you, will strangle you when he is born. 'Remember my father, the King! There is a mistake, but I forgive. ”
What does this mean? That is to say, good things are like water, and they don't have to be remembered all the time, while those evils should be carved like marble, and they should always be vigilant. During Keats's lifetime, in addition to love and friendship, his poetry was mercilessly ridiculed by critics of the time, and because of his social status, he was contemptuously called the Londoner who wrote poetry, so Keats hoped that his future tombstone would not be engraved with a name or date, but only a line: 'He who writes his name with water is buried here.'" ’”
Life is a passing water, even if it is great and talented like Keats, why bother to engrave yourself on the marble, as long as it is brilliant, as long as it has bloomed, as long as it has been beautiful, as long as it has been loved, it is enough.
Born in 1860, Antoine Calbet, a 19th-century oil painter from France, studied under the world-famous supermaster Cabanel, but in the world of oil painting, Antoine's reputation is not great. At least compared to Cabanel, it can be said that he is unknown.
Calbert is an oil painter and a watercolorist, and it is his watercolors that I would like to admire with you here.
Although he is not a well-known watercolor painter, his watercolors are full of the flavor of life - the joy and love that blooms in the flowers and trees of ordinary life.
I like the following watercolor painting very much, the beautiful human body in the fiery red flower tree, it is the dance of life under the strong breath, free and happy. The only regret is that there is no way to present this painting to everyone in its entirety, and there is no way, which is very regrettable. In addition, all of today's Calbert's watercolor drawings have to be coded, he loves to paint completely naked female jade bodies, in nature, in the sun, in the interplay of flowers and trees, the human body belongs to nature, but also the most beautiful in nature, when she is calmly presented in nature, it brings us the pleasure of beauty, which cannot be described in words.
In the early days of his studies at the Montpellier Academy of Fine Arts, Eduard Antoine Marsal's studio, in 19th-century Europe, the studios of famous painters can be seen everywhere, and the strong artistic atmosphere and more practice-oriented teaching methods have cultivated generations of great painters, similar to the words and deeds between our masters and apprentices in Jingdezhen.
Subsequently, Calbet was successfully admitted to the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris and entered the famous Alexander Cabanel studio to continue his studies, so the real learning has never been a rigid script, and this way of learning is still the most common in the United States.
Later, under the guidance of Cabanel, Calbet's work was regularly exhibited at the official Salon, and the first painting to be exhibited at the Salon at the age of twenty was collected at that time. This was followed by medals at the Salon Exhibitions of 1891, 1892 and 1893, and a silver medal at the World's Fair in 1900. The success of this series of salons led him to many official commissions, painting the ceiling of the Teatro d'Agen de Courno, frescoes for the Pamière and Agen town halls, among others.
Many people have painted the theme of "Leda and the Swan", I have introduced it in the previous issue, almost all the oil paintings that express this theme are erotic, but this one by Carnet is not, it is more like an innocent girl attracted by a beautiful swan, and the display is beautiful.
卡尔贝特就是这么个狂热热爱爱与生活、自然的美的使者。 莎士比亚的《 亨利八世 》里有一句，“men's evil manner lives in brass; their virtues we write in water”（男人们的邪恶存在于黄铜之中，而美德在水中书写），这句话和济慈的墓志铭有种奇妙的呼应，它又何尝不是卡尔贝特的水彩与生平？
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