亞瑟?休斯是一位拉斐爾前派的美術家。
有人曾這樣評價他的畫:”the knife-edge between sentiment and sentimentality” 但因為明亮的用色和細致的細節,休斯的作品并不顯得感傷。 他也是一個十分活躍的插畫家。

Ophelia 奧菲利婭
Painting Date: 1851-53
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 68.5 x 124 cm
Location: Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, England
休斯筆下的奧菲利婭纖弱優美,宛若林澤女神.
畫框上有這樣的題詩:
‘There is a willow grows aslant the brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come.
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples.
There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang an envious sliver broke.
When down the weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook.’
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April Love 四月之戀
Painting Date: 1855-56
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 89 x 49.5 cm
Location: Tate Britain, London, England
1856年此畫展出時附有丁尼生(Tennyson)的磨坊主的女兒(The Miller’s Daughter)中的詩句作為注釋:
‘Love is hurt with jar and fret.
Love is made a vague regret;
Eyes with idle tears are wet,
Idle habit links us yet.
What is love? for we forget:
Ah, no! no!’
“相當優雅,可愛的色彩。少女顫抖的嘴唇,甜美溫柔的臉,猶豫不決的姿態,就像在風中顫抖的樹葉上的一滴剔透的露珠。”(引自Academy Notes, 1856, 14.68).
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Knight of the Sun 太陽騎士
Painting Date: 1861 (?)
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 22.5 x 32 cm
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
上了年紀的戰士受了重傷,正被人抬往僧侶的帳篷,黃昏的景象暗示了英雄遲暮的悲涼。
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Ophelia and He Will Not Come Again 奧菲利婭
Painting Date: 1863-64
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 94.5 x 59.5 cm
Location: Toledo Museum of Art, Toldeo, Ohio, USA
休斯描述奧菲利婭臨死前,她正接近湖面,回眸張望,唱著她的最后一支歌:
‘Ophelia (sings)
And will he not come again?
And will he not come again?
No, no he is dead
Go to thy death-bed
He never will come again.
His beard was as white as snow,
All flaxen was his poll:
He is gone, he is gone,
And we cast away moan;
Gramercy on his soul!
And of all Christian souls, I pray God –
God be wi’ you.
Exit’.
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#p#副標題#e#
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The Lady of Shalott
Painting Date: 1872-3 (?)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 95 x 160 cm
Location: Unknown
配有丁尼生(Tennyson)的詩句:
‘Out upon the wharfs they came,
Knight and burgher, lord and dame,
And round the prow they read her name,
The Lady of Shalott’
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Sir Galahad 加拉哈德
Painting Date: 1865-70
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 113 x 167.5 cm
Location: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
加拉哈德騎士是亞瑟王傳奇中的人物,他被稱為圣潔騎士,畫面描寫他尋找圣杯之旅,配有以下的詩:
‘The clouds are broken in the sky,
And thro’ the mountain-walls,
A rolling organ-harmony
Swells up, and shakes and falls,
Then move the trees, the copses nod,
Wings flutter, voices hover clear:
Oh just and faithful knight of God!
Ride on: the prize is near.
So pass I hostel, hall, and grange;
By bridge and ford, by park and pale,
All-arm’d I ride, whate’er betide,
Until I find the holy Grail’.
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A gentle sound, an awful sight!
Three angels bear the holy grail:
With folded feet, in stoles of white,
On sleeping wings they sail.’
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Wonderland 仙境
Painting Date: 1912
Medium: Unknown
Size: Unknown
Location: Unknown
美麗的花園中立于陽光下的小孩,宛若天使。
作者以明亮得耀眼的色彩創造出夢幻般的感覺。
