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"How sad! I will get old, but this painting will always be young...
If only it could be reversed! If it's me who is always young, and it's painting that gets older, how nice it would be!
For this, I would like to give up everything I have in this world!
I would like to exchange my soul for it! ”
Dowling Gray, a naturally beautiful teenager, Dowling Gray met the painter Howard, the young and beautiful teenager stimulated the artistic imagination of the painter Howard, so he painted a portrait of the handsome teenager Dowling Gray, who looked almost perfect, Dowling Gray saw the portrait and found his own amazing beauty, both inflated and tangled, and the painter Howard himself also believed that the most perfect work created was the portrait of Dowling Gray, and this made Dowling Green face the temptation of youthful beauty in the face of the portrait.
Dowling Gray realized that youth was fleeting and beautiful, listened to Sir Henry's boasting, began to feel sad for his impending old age, and felt pain for his beauty for a long time, he actually hoped to exchange his soul, hoping that the portrait could replace himself with the traces and effects of the years, and let himself always remain young and beautiful.
This absurd wish of his thinking was later and inexplicably fulfilled, so he began to squander his sins, and finally this portrait became evidence of the evil deeds, and it can be said that he lived and died because of the portrait.
As described at the end of the book:
"They entered the house and found on the wall a glorious portrait of the master, as miraculously maintaining the ultimate in youth and beauty as they had last seen him. On the floor lay a corpse, dressed in an evening gown with a knife inserted in the heart. He described it as withered, wrinkled, and abominable. It wasn't until they looked at the ring on the deceased's hand that they recognized who it was. ”
In 1891, Wilde's portrait of Dowling Gray was published, causing great uproar and receiving fierce attacks from the media. Wilde also became acquainted with Sir Alfred Douglas that year, and his tragic fate began.
Artists are the creators of good things. Many critics have said that the Portrait of Dowling Gray could be seen as an autobiography of Wilde himself. On a spiritual level, wilde seems to be another narcissistic Dowling Gray.
Wilde's work had a great influence in China, and the architect Mr. Wang Dahong once translated "Portrait of Dowling Gray" into "Du Liankui", and the scene was transformed into Taipei at that time.
"Portrait of Dowling Gray" is regarded as a masterpiece of aestheticism at the end of the 19th century, and can be called the three best of the "art for art's sake" trend in drama fiction and painting. Wilde himself said: "Moral life is part of the artist's subject matter, but the morality of art lies in the perfect use of imperfect material." ”
Just as every portrait painted with emotion is a portrait of the artist, those colors and pictures are the expression of the artist's thoughts, and each work of art is also the most intuitive expression of the creator's thoughts and emotions.
Wilde's Dowling Gray looks at and judges with Lord Henry's eyes, and it is truly handsome: beautiful red lips, sincere blue eyes, blond curls, with the frankness and purity of a young man, it makes people feel that this man is free from all worldly filth.
Lord Henry said Lin Gray was too charming, too charming, too glamorous to do charity. Under his advocacy, Dowling, who was originally fascinated by his own beauty, said that if he could only grow old like the world, he would commit suicide when he got old, because he could not tolerate a beautiful face that was no longer beautiful.
The beautiful rhetoric and brilliant imagery in this work are attached to perverted characters and absurd plots, so they have long been misunderstood, but in fact, the book has another true meaning.
Eight film adaptations of Dowling Gray's Portrait have been found so far, namely the British version in 1916, the German version in 1917, the Hungarian version in 1918, the American version in 1945, the TELEVISION version in Mexico in 1969, the italian, West German and British film versions in 1970, the television version produced in the United Kingdom in 1976, and the film versions produced in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1983 and 2009.
Everyone was fascinated by Wilde's works, and Wilde always used stories to express his innermost thoughts.
The statements in Wilde's works that show the great difference between his thinking and his contemporaries are scattered in various ways, and they are always displayed so unexpectedly at unexpected moments, which make people surprised and admired or lost at the same time. For example, the following are sentences from Wilde's works, which are very realistic and sharp:
"Men marry out of boredom and women marry out of curiosity. As a result, both sides were disappointed.
Loyalty in the emotional life is like consistency in the rational life, which is nothing more than the admission of failure.
People in love always cheat on themselves first and cheat on others last.
People always like to give what they need most to others, and I think that's called generosity at its peak.
There are only two kinds of people who are really likable, one is the person who knows everything and the other is the person who knows nothing.
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