点评:I've been hearing people rave about The Barnes Foundation all my life (now age 76), but had never been until April, 2026. Now I understand: incredible collections of Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, and a crowd of masterpieces by other mostly French painters of the 19th and 20th centuries. I had booked a docent tour of the Matisse collection which was chock full of interesting information about Matisse, his life, the background & context of many of his paintings and models. Mr. Barnes had an incredible eye, hung all the paintings himself, and surrounded many of the paintings with metal craft objects (gate latches & hasps, escuthcheons, and the like) each of which were designed to draw the eye to compositional elements, colors, or designs in the nearby paintings. I spent three hours there and barely scratched the surface. Will have to get back there repeatedly.
翻译:我从小就听人对巴恩斯基金会赞不绝口(现在我76岁了),但直到2026年4月才第一次亲身前往。现在我终于明白了:那里收藏着雷诺阿、塞尚、马蒂斯等大师的杰作,以及其他许多19、20世纪法国画家的杰作,令人叹为观止。我预订了马蒂斯藏品的导览,讲解员讲解的内容非常丰富,涵盖了马蒂斯本人、他的生平、许多画作的背景和创作灵感。巴恩斯先生眼光独到,所有画作都是他亲自悬挂的,他还用金属工艺品(例如门闩、搭扣、护墙板等等)装饰许多画作,这些工艺品的设计都旨在引导观者的视线,使其注意到附近画作的构图、色彩或图案。我在那里待了三个小时,却也只是浅尝辄止。看来我以后一定要多去几次。