每周五晚7到10点，纽约惠特尼美术馆都人潮涌动。
不少人奔着2017 Whitney Biennal展览而来，而在另一个角落，一场关于人像作品的展览也即将告一段落，主题是Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection。今晚只看了这一部分，其中让我印象深刻的还是许多对不同年代女性精神状态的刻画和展现，从蛋彩画、油画到拼贴画、摄影作品，下面分享我最喜欢的五幅作品。:D
The Subway, 1950
坐地铁时你是否有过恍惚，不知道身在何方？疲惫，却又被现实拖着向前？
红色裙子灰蓝色外套的50年代装束的女子，踌躇不前，眼神迷茫疲惫；穿着西装外套的男人们帽沿下睥睨的默然的目光，像极了迷宫又像监狱的地铁。一切的一切，都像是包裹住女子的蝉蛹，像脱茧而出却不得。
我喜欢作者的构图，女子和后面三名男子组成的三角构图，透视法表现出地铁的迷宫般的复杂；也喜欢他的色彩对比，朴素的白绿褐中鲜亮的一抹红，展现出女性觉醒的意识。
这是一幅关于50年代独立女性的失落和追寻的画，也是一幅现代都市社会中的人与人之间疏远、隔离的写照，纽约地铁只是其中一个表现媒介。
很喜欢Whitney Museum网站上一个中学生写的与之相关的小小说：
“There will be no more A trains going Uptown. Please transfer to the C at Chambers Street if you want to go uptown,” said the nasal voice from a microphone. Penelope sighed. She was going to have to get off of the train at the next stop, something she did not want to do. She was tired and stressed out. She was already very late for dinner. Her husband could not get home later than her. When the train reached Chambers Street, she ran as fast as her tired, old legs would let her. She ran through the long subway corridor and pushed past the anonymous figures in front of her. When she got to the end of the hall, she realized that she had no idea where she was going. There were no signs in sight. She was lost. At that moment, she became overwhelmingly embarrassed. Was everyone looking at her? She could not tell. The dim lighting and shadowed faces of the man in the same space as her began to terrify her. She felt very dizzy, as if she might faint. She could not ask anyone for help. She did not trust these people. “Why am I here? Where am I,” she thought, as a wave of terror flooded her body.
By Vita
A woman in the sun,1961
新古典主义画作，风格写实，清晨的阳光洒落在刚起床的裸体女子背上，微风撩起她的发丝，她右手夹着烟，微微吐出烟雾，昨晚的高跟鞋还散落在床下。
这是画家Edward Hopper以其妻子为原型的作品，创作时他妻子已经78岁了。我喜欢他展现的思考的随性的女性，the woman who is thinking and feeling.
Lever Building II，1970
这是60、70年代的纽约办公楼的剪影拼贴画，钢筋支架和玻璃窗，辛勤加班的白领，你还看到了什么了吗？
看到那个穿着连衣裙犹豫不决的女性了吗？职场里的女性是否都比男性少了一丝魄力和坚定？这个社会是否还像当年一样对女性存在不少歧视？我们可以如何改变？Idelle Weber作为女性画家开始关注这一点。
Self Portrait on Top of Brian Kissing, NYC，1983
ANan Goldin (1953-)
关注亲吻的主题作品很多，我却喜欢这幅。
昏暗的房间里，男子的全身赤裸与女子的黑色外套的对比，男下女上的对比，男性接受和女性主导的对比，表现出了女性的张力、力量以及原始的渴望。
Untitled, 1980
80年代的华尔街女性经典look，也是美国当年朋克音乐酒吧CBGB的风格。既能纵横职场又能high翻夜店，洒脱的、浪漫的、丰富的大女人形象跃然“图”上。
至于摄影手法，摄影师是这样说的：“I counted off one, two, three, and the models would have to jerk, fling, twist, fall. Sometimes I’d pick a specific place on the body to throw something at as if they were getting shot.”
Zoey
2017.3.25于纽约
图片来源：Whitney Museum of American Art，Zoey摄影