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1941年 正值隆冬 It's the depths of winter, 1941.
帕勃罗.毕加索就居住并工作在 Pablo Picasso is living and working
巴黎塞纳河左岸的一栋房子的顶层 On the top floor of an old house in Left Bank Paris.
纳粹的铁蹄已经横扫欧洲大陆 The Third Reich owns Europe.
毕加索的居所经常受到盖世太保的骚扰 Every so often Picasso gets visits from the Gestapo.
他们对画家的作品唧唧歪歪 甚至还怀疑他窝藏犹太人朋友 They mutter about degenerate art and drop dark hints he's hiding Jewish friends.
在他们眼里 毕加索的画室就是一堆垃圾 Then they trash the studio a bit.
某天的一次来访成为了毕加索传奇人生的一个插曲 One day, there's a visit that passes into the Picasso legend.
那个不受欢迎的访客鬼鬼祟祟的到处窥探 The unwelcome visitor snoops around a bit.
然后他注意到在毕加索的作品周围 Then he notices there are postcards lying around.
散落着一些明信片 Of Picasso's most famous work.
上面描述的是在西班牙内战期间 His epic depiction of what happened when German bombs.
当德国的炸弹落在巴斯克人居住的小镇上时的情形 Fell on a small Basque town in the Spanish Civil War.
格尔尼卡 Guernica.
他问道 这是你干的吗 ''Did you do this?'' he says.
毕加索回答道 噢 不是我做的 是你做的 继续干吧 拿张留作纪念怎么样 ''Oh, no,'' says Picasso. ''You did. Go on, take one. Souvenir.''
机智的回击 这个故事不错 Great comeback, good story.
但是当面对暴行时，艺术真正能做些什么呢？ But what can art really do in the face of atrocity?
难道艺术就只能做它的本职工作 Shouldn't art just stick to what it does best.
在为人们带来欢愉的同时让画家们忘记了自己战士的身份？ The delivery of pleasure, and forget about being a paintbrush warrior?
或者当炸弹落下的时候 Or is it, when the bombs are dropping.
我们才发现了艺术真正的身份？ That we find out what art is really for?
艺术的力量：毕加索
二十世纪二十年代的巴黎 Paris in the 1920s.
帕勃罗.毕加索是现代艺术的王者 Pablo Picasso was the sovereign of modern painting.
他漂亮舒适的寓所就在爱丽舍宫的附近 He was living in a fancy apartment near the Champs Elysees.
美丽的会跳芭蕾的俄罗斯夫人和他们的小儿子陪伴着他 With his Russian ballerina wife, Olga, and their little boy.
他的作品在高档优雅的画廊展出 He showed his paintings in a classy gallery.
艺术的一切就是他的王国 And all of art was his kingdom.
自恃天赋异禀 无论在哪里他都能美梦成真 Drunk on self-confidence and cleverness, he could take it wherever he fancied.
1927年一月的一天 他注意到了自己心中的梦想 One day, in January, 1927, he noticed something he definitely fancied.
她一头金发 有点像北欧人 轮廓分明 芳龄二八 Blonde, vaguely Nordic, statuesque, 16.
她名叫玛丽.赛瑞斯.沃尔特 She's called Marie These Walter.
那是下午 毕加索在一家百货公司外面遇见了她 And Picasso sees her one afternoon outside Galeries Lafayette, a department store.
他立马抓住时机 凑上去搭话 He loses no time, goes up to her and says.
小姐 您的脸庞好迷人 ''Mademoiselle, you have a most interesting face."
我想我应该把它画下来 ''And I should like to paint it."
小生名叫毕加索 ''I am Picasso.''
她成为了他的情人 Marie These would become his lover.
并禁不住深深的堕入了毕加索诱人的艺术世界 And a compulsive obsession in his art.
1932年 他把玛丽置于一个无精打采的幻想状态之中 In 1932, he poses Marie These in a languid reverie.
她在轻柔的抚摸着自己的身体 仿佛沉浸在梦里爱人的爱抚带来的欢愉之中 Gently masturbating, she's literally got sex on her mind.
正如画面所要表达的一样 我们对此感到震惊 仿佛也进入了着迷的状态之中 Pictures like this do what they show, stroking us into a playful trance.
作品的色调和内涵 带着倦意的色情表演 The colour and wit of the thing, a drowsy, sensual entertainment.
这是一个自大放纵且自恋的天才 It's the provocative work of a cocky, self-obsessed.
创作出的具有争论性的作品 Self-indulgent genius.
从格尔尼卡一路走过来可不容易 And it's all a long way from Guernica.
毕加索是在世纪之交来到巴黎的 Picasso had arrived in Paris at the turn of the century.
这个安达卢西亚人才高八斗 个儿小且好斗 A small, pugnacious and frighteningly gifted Andalusian.
在这座前卫的城市里 In the city of the avant-garde, wherever you looked.
到处可以看到诗歌音乐以及绘画的窠臼陈规被蔑视的现象 All the rules of poetry, music, painting, were being junked.
毕加索活得就像一个吉普赛人 Young Picasso living like a bohemian.
油腻腻的头发 大而黑的眼睛 还有一个大兔鼻 With his oil-slick hair, huge black eyes and big rabbit's nose.
他知道自己必须得成为这里名副其实的一分子 He knew he had to be part of the giddy liberty.
而且他也知道自己不想要什么 And he knew what he didn't want.
陈腐老旧的表现权势的哑剧 The hoary old pantomimes of the mighty.
现代艺术之所以现代就是因为 Modern art was modern because it had turned its back.
对于那些只为帝王贵族创作作品的历史 On those grandstanding histories.
他们彻底摈弃了这种模式 Painted for aristocrats and kings.
这就是骑着马的万能的君王 Here's power on a horse, the omnipotence of the ruler.
表现出来的是一种冷淡的（对国家的）控制 Displayed by nonchalant control.
仅仅是单手轻握缰绳就搞定了 Just one hand on the reins.
作品传达的信息是 如果君王能控制这匹高头大马 The message was, if the sovereign can handle the great horse.
他也就能驾奴好国家这匹马 he can certainly manage affairs of state.
特别是和平与战争这两大国家问题 Critical matters of war and peace.
对于表达纯粹的权利 这幅作品算得上是不朽之作 It was the most enduring image of pure power.
这就是毕加索的作品 And here's what Picasso does.
上面并不是一个坐在马鞍上的王子形象 而是个赤溜溜的小男孩靠在一匹马旁 Instead of a prince in the saddle, a naked boy leading a bare-backed horse
周遭是空洞且有些怪异的原始风景 Through an eerily empty primordial landscape.
作品里并没有什么英雄 也不是在叙述什么故事 好像没有什么主题要表达 There's no hero to identify here, no story, no subject.
只不过是从陈旧里面破跳出来的现代感 Just the modern coming straight out of the archaic,
好像那里从来没有什么中间性可言 As if there had never been anything in-between.
此刻历史被宣布了失败 History down for the count, then. Next stop for obliteration, beauty.
而下一站就是去抹掉古典艺术所表达的美感 The classical ideal of art itself.
这种美感是通过女性裸体的美丽形象来表现的 Made visible in the luscious form of the female nude.
这就是毕加索于1907年对女性的美丽胴体发起的残忍攻击 And this is Picasso's ferocious attack on that sacred cow in 1907.
自此以后 再也没有那些一边看着女性裸体心潮澎湃 This is how all those centuries of gazing at nudes.
却又道貌岸然的低声说自己是在欣赏优雅的人体美的情形彻底终结了 And muttering demurely about graceful form end.
这些妓女站成一行 A brothel line-up.
她们一丝不挂 你埋单后就能走人 They strip, you check them out.
从此以后 欧洲艺术中 Everything ever associated with nude women in European art.
所有与女性裸体有关的美丽、温柔和亲切的淫荡 Beauty, obliging sensuality, tenderness.
被残忍的剪成了碎片 All brutally sheared away.
后来大约在1910年左右，古典艺术表达的美感彻底成了历史 And then, around 1910, having seen off beauty and history.
毕加索还准备来一次帽子戏法 Picasso goes for the hat trick.
他准备做的将会更惊人 Something even more mind-blowing, something that, for most people.
这将颠覆数世纪以来大多数人心中对艺术的基本观点 Over the centuries, had been the entire point of art.
那就是对称性 Bye-bye, resemblance.
如果照你的意愿复制一个二维的世界 If a two-dimensional duplicate of the world is what you want,
那么照相术就很合适做这个工作 Then photography is going to do that job much more efficiently.
Ambroise Vollard是毕加索的作品经销商 This is Picasso's art dealer, Ambroise Vollard.
而在毕加索眼中 他是这个样子 This is how Picasso saw him.
与现实中的他大不相同 A different vision of the way things really are.
立体主义 Cubism.
透过他那富于曲线美的身体 Deep inside his Slinky-toy cascades of form.
毕加索坚持说他看到的是随时间不断颤抖的身体形象 Seen juddering through moments in time, was, he insisted.
它紧凑、立体且坚固 Something compact, solid and firm.
通过彻底打破事物的常规形式 By blowing up the look of things.
毕加索说 我正在透过现象看本质 Picasso was saying, I'm getting beyond surface appearances, to the core.
这并不是去支持那些想要赏心悦目的事物的人 It wasn't for those who wanted something easy on the eye.
但是突然间毕加索就对取悦观众不感兴趣了 But then Picasso wasn't interested in pleasuring the public.
他肯定是在钻牛角尖 He positively revelled in the cult of difficulty.
你好像听他在说 太困难了是吧 也许是有那么一点儿 ''Too hard?'' you can almost hear him sneering. ''Tough.''
在20世纪20年代 In the 1920s,
有些事情让毕加索有些失眠 There's something else he doesn't lose much sleep over.
那就是当时的世界形势 The state of the world.
他做的很好 谢谢关心 但是欧洲的形势却很糟糕 He's doing fine, thank you, but Europe is in deep trouble,
法西斯势力开始攫取权力 Fascism beginning to strong-arm its way into power.
但是说到当时社会上充斥的仇恨 骚乱 暴动以及革命 But of the chaos and hatred, riot and revolution.
在毕加索的作品中却没有任何的表现 There's not a hint in Picasso's work.
那是一场毕加索早已经加入其中的战斗 The only wars Picasso had ever fought had been against.
那是一场反对艺术的陈规戒律的战斗 The conventions of art.
噢 是的 他通常是站在自由一方的 Oh, yes, he'd mostly been on the side of freedom.
但是那通常是富于创造性的自由 而不是政治上的 But that had always been creative, not political, freedom.
所以毕加索最好的朋友这样称呼他也就不足为奇了 No wonder one of his best friends called Picasso.
我所知道的一个最不具有政治性的人 ''The least political person I've ever known.''
在毕加索画室里发生的事情表明 What's happening in Picasso's studio.
毕加索的态度是能避多远就避多远 Is about as far from the barricades as you can get.
他完全沉迷在自己的艺术天地里 It's all very self-obsessed.
在20世纪20年代 毕加索根本就没有对政治与社会冲突表现出丁点兴趣 Politics and social conflict doesn't interest him at all in the 1920s.
相反 他念念不忘的是自己的职业 Instead, he's brooding on his calling.
所以 那就是这位艺术家许多复杂难解的 超级微妙的作品 So, lots of complicated, super-subtle images of the artist in the studio.
它们大多都是镜中的映像 Lots of reflections of and in mirrors.
作品中的模特儿这样那样的被拉伸变形 Lots of models pulled this way and that.
躯体的各个部分被艺术性的再排列 Body parts artfully rearranged.
他难以释怀的还有自己的爱情生活 He's also brooding on his increasingly tangled love life.
在他们夫妇那次悲惨的海滩假期中 On their harrowing beach vacations, Picasso and his wife, Olga.
毕加索和妻子奥尔加冲突不断 Were in constant conflict.
于是 当毕加索意识到婚姻成为了他项上枷锁之后 And when he was feeling imprisoned by the relationship,
他在作品中表现出来的变形就更加的奇形怪状了 His artistic distortions are grotesque.
那就像一只与雌螳螂相像的女人（雌螳螂通常在交配后吃掉雄性） Meet praying mantis woman.
长着一张恐怖的带有锯齿的嘴巴 With her frighteningly toothed all-purpose orifice.
在毕加索的作品中 并不是每个女性都是那么的残忍恐怖 Not all of his images of women were brutal and predatory.
当他为玛丽.赛瑞斯画像的时候 When he starts painting Marie These.
毕加索常用的锯齿状线条突然间 Picasso's jagged lines suddenly become
就变成了如同他的情人胴体般迷人的动人曲线 As curvy and voluptuous as his lover's body.
我们正处于毕加索的世界深处 We are deep in Picasso's world.
在那里 他主要的灵感就来自他的艺术 情人和自己本身 Where his principal inspirations are his art, his women and himself.
毕加索经常说 现代艺术就应该是这个样子 Picasso often said, ''This is how modern art is supposed to be,
它能够摆脱脆弱的感情依恋 能替换之并让人们有所回忆 ''Free of sentimental attachments to place and memory. ''
但是即便是毕加索也不能逃脱历史的宿命 But even Pablo Picasso can't escape history.
在他的家乡西班牙 仿佛亘古不变的事情也发生了变化 In his homeland, Spain, the old certainties were collapsing.
这个国家通过投票摒弃了皇室统治 The country had voted to throw out the royal family.
一个社会公正和政治自由的黄金时代 A new golden age of social justice and political liberty.
仿佛就要呼之欲出了 Was supposed to dawn.
但是在西班牙共和国成立后的8年间 But the eight years of the Spanish Republic.
不管是对于它的捍卫者还是敌对者来说 都是一个延续的折磨 Would be a prolonged torment for its defenders and enemies alike.
是在左右翼派别之间 以及国家新旧势力之间 Violence regularly erupted between factions on the political right and left,
暴力冲突时常发生 Between the past and the present.
作为一个生活在巴黎的异乡人 这位现代主义艺术大师 In his Parisian exile, the modernist virtuoso.
发觉在自己的内心深处 正受着一位前大师的折磨 Finds himself haunted by a past master.
他是西班牙绘画史上最诡异的天才 The darkest genius of Spanish painting.
弗朗西斯科·戈雅 Francisco Goya.
是他首先开了让艺术表现出了 Goya was the first to make art look squarely into the nightmare of cruelty.
现代战争残酷梦魇的内部世界 That was modern warfare.
他的作品《战争灾难》把艺术的完美形式-人体美 His disasters of war turn the ideal forms of art.
变成了一个令人恶心的玩笑 The beauty of a human body, into a sick joke.
这就像屠夫刀下的碎排骨 So much butcher's chops.
戈雅的困惑同样发生在毕加索身上 Goya's obsessions infected Picasso.
斗牛仿佛是一种带有仪式般的屠杀行为 The old master's bullfights, with their rituals of slaughter,
以斗牛为主题的戈雅作品把毕加索冷酷的领回了西班牙 Pulling him inexorably back to Spain.
1934年 毕加索越过比利牛斯山脉作了一次故乡之旅 In 1934, Picasso crossed the Pyrenees for a tour of his homeland.
和他作伴的是玛丽.赛瑞斯 For part of the trip, he was joined by Marie These.
在马德里 他们少不了的要去看一场斗牛表演 Inevitably, here in Madrid, they went to a bullfight.
诗人费德里科·洛尔迦把西班牙称作 The poet Federico Lorca described Spain.
唯一一个全国范围内把死亡公开展览的地方 As the only country where death is a national spectacle.
在20世纪30年代中期 In the mid-1930s,
斗牛表演面临着被废除的危险 The spectacle was threatening to spill from the bullring.
因为西班牙好像就要分裂了 Spain was about to be torn apart.
其实西班牙已经分裂了 It was already hopelessly divided.
如今出现了一个富有现代气息的西班牙 There was a modern Spain.
那里城市林立 工业发展 如此的世俗 Urban, secular, industrial.
社会主义运动风起云涌 无政府主义者到处煽风点火 A Spain of thriving socialist movements and agitating anarchists.
但是还有另一个古老的西班牙 But there was another, more ancient Spain.
那里贫富分化 富人占有大片土地 农民却贫困不堪 A country of immense landed estates and a poverty-stricken peasantry.
天主教教会这座大山压得西班牙快要窒息 A Spain suffocated by the heavy presence of the Catholic Church.
毕加索把这个西班牙称为黑暗的西班牙 Picasso called this The Black Spain.
但是问题在于这两个西班牙都宣称自己才是正统 The problem was that both Spains claimed to be the true nation.
双方都不准备承认选举结果的有效性 Neither was prepared to accept the verdict of elections.
他们已经把彼此视为政治上的对手 Had they thought of themselves as just rival political parties.
那么 相互充满敌意的貌似和平的共存应该可行吧 Well, then hostile but peaceful coexistence would have been possible.
但是他们并不这样想 But they didn't.
左翼右翼 新旧势力 Each side, left and right, old and new, believed the other.
在二者眼中 对方并不是个政治对手那么简单 Not just to be the opposition
而是在西班牙重生道路上的敌人 But the enemy of reborn Spain itself.
不把对方赶尽杀绝决不罢休 Each side demanded the other's annihilation.
毕加索拒绝了 Picasso stayed aloof.
但是终有一日他会明白过来 But there must have been a day when he woke up.
最终他会发现自己已经坠入民族仇恨的深渊之中 And found he'd fallen into the abyss of native hatreds.
在内心深处 一股狂热渐渐主导了他那极富创造性的想象力 A Spanish fever begins to take hold of Picasso's deepest creative imagination.
在绘画中表现出来的则是那个古老的对手 Into the prints and drawings come all the old ancient antagonists.
它一旦被召唤就再也不会离开 Who, once summoned, never really go away.
公牛 The bull
骏马 The horse
还有光明使者 And the bearer of light.
作品并不怎么美丽 倒是有些令人恐慌 It's not pretty, it is scary.
我们就在斗牛场里 We're in the bullring.
内脏从被刺伤的马匹肚子里流了出来 Entrails spill from gored horses.
有时候死的是斗牛士 Sometimes toreadors die.
有时候是公牛 Sometimes bulls.
但是我们好像也进入了一个弥诺陶洛斯（牛头人身怪）的更为古老的世界 But we're also in a more ancient world of the Minotaur.
同时那也是毕加索那迷宫般的思想 And the labyrinth of Picasso's mind.
这就是现代主义者毕加索所做到的 It's Picasso the modernist who is doing this.
把古老的神话 梦境以及梦魇又带了回来 Bringing back all the old ancient myths, dreams and nightmares.
他说 你也许会认为它们只属于过去 You think they belong to the remote past, he's saying.
你错了 看看周围吧 它们仍然在我们身旁 Wrong, look around, they're still with us.
我们仿佛已经来到了未来 但那却又是另一个荒蛮时代 We've gone back to our future, and it is again a savage age.
洪水猛兽都出来了 The beasts are out.
弗朗西斯科.弗朗哥将军曾经说过 General Francisco Franco once said.
如果能把西班牙从马克思主义中拯救出来 即便是要射杀一半人民他也在所不惜 That to save Spain from Marxism, he was prepared to shoot half the country.
1936年7月 他出尔反尔 In July, 1936, he fired his opening salvo.
发动了一场军事政变 leading an army rebellion.
推翻了民主选举出的由社会主义者和自由主义者领导的政府 Against the democratically elected government of socialists and liberals.
他们惯用的战斗口号是“Viva la muerte” A favoured rallying cry of the rebels was, ''Viva la muerte. ''
死亡万岁 ''Long live death.''
为了彻底的贯彻这一理念 And to help the generals deliver it, they get enthusiastic assistance.
他们得到了纳粹德国空军的空中支援 Out of the German Luftwaffe that provides air support.
弗朗哥将军领导的军队 And the army that General Franco will use to conquer Spain.
还包括从墨索里尼政府租借的四万名意大利士兵 Includes 40,000 Italian troops on loan from Mussolini.
对于意大利和德国的纳粹势力来说 For the Italian Fascists and the German Nazis.
西班牙内战是一场即将开始的世界大战的预演 The Spanish Civil War is a dry run for their own coming global battle.
即将来临的大战将摧毁社会主义和民主主义 With degenerate democracy and socialism.
尽管弗朗哥领导的军队并非正义之师 但是他们却横扫了西班牙 The Civil War is vicious, but Franco's armies sweep through Spain,
狂风扫落叶般的击败了那些民主政府的捍卫者 Overwhelming the idealistic militias defending the democratic government.
但是不知何故已被包围的马德里抵挡住了敌人的攻势 Somehow, the besieged capital, Madrid, holds out.
一发炮弹打开了Prado博物馆的保护设施 But then a shell breaches the defences of the Prado museum.
那里可是西班牙珍贵艺术的收藏地 Home to Spain's precious art collection.
当毕加索听说了这件事后 他感到自己个人受到了攻击 When Picasso hears about it, he feels personally assaulted.
这位伟大的喜欢叛逆传统的现代主义者-立体主义先生 The great iconoclastic modernist, Senor Cubism,
突然开始去保护自己的祖先了 Suddenly protective of his own ancestry.
所有那些西班牙艺术大师，特别是戈雅 All those Spanish masters, especially Goya,
亲眼目睹了战争带来的灾难 Witness to the disasters of war.
所以当他被征询是否愿意出任Prado博物馆馆长这个令人尊敬的职位时 So when he's asked to accept the honorific position of Director of the Prado.
他毫不犹豫的就接受了 he doesn't hesitate to say yes.
对于世界来说 这是个讯号 表明他已经站到共和国的一方了 It's a signal to the world he's chosen to stand with the Republic.
毕加索终于涉足了政治 Picasso has got politics.
不管是象征性的还是实际意义上的 他都不得不去加入这场战争 And he's forced to join the struggle practically as well as symbolically.
最终大家决定要把这些面临危险的伟大作品 It's decided that the endangered masterpieces have to be evacuated
从Prado护送到瓦伦西亚 From the Prado to Valencia.
毕加索帮助挑选这些珍贵娇贵的艺术珍品 El Director Picasso helps select the vulnerable cargo.
当这些西班牙珍宝启程去安全地点时 And waits nervously for news.
他焦急的等着安全到达的消息 As a convoy carrying Spain's art treasures trundles to its safe haven.
如今 毕加索的思绪和热情全被西班牙内战占据了 Picasso's thoughts and passions are now locked into the Spanish struggle.
回到巴黎后 毕加索遇到了另一个危机 这次是私人问题 Back in Paris, Picasso is confronted by another crisis. This time, it's personal.
他与夫人奥尔加之间的裂痕又加深了 He's in the midst of an acrimonious split from his wife, Olga.
因为他的情人赛瑞斯怀孕了 His lover Marie These is pregnant.
他好像瘫痪了一般 He feels creatively paralysed.
他说 这是我一生中最糟糕的时候 ''It is'', he says, ''the worst time of my life. ''
后来在1937年1月 Then in January, 1937,
毕加索工作室的门又一次被敲响了 Spain comes knocking at his studio door.
因为巴黎将要在夏天举办一次世界博览会 A group responsible for designing the Spanish pavilion.
所以一个负责设计展览会西班牙馆的小组 At a world's fair, to be held in Paris the following summer.
就来拜访毕加索的工作室了 Comes to visit Picasso in his studio.
这些人告诉他说政治上终忠于国家的艺术家应该为此出一份力 Politically committed artists, they tell him,
毕加索会答应他们吗？ have agreed to do work for that pavilion. Would Picasso join them?
是的 他答应了 但是具体怎么做他心里却没谱 Well, yes, he would. Just what he was going to paint, he had no idea.
但是当他坐等灵感来访期间 But while he was waiting for inspiration to hit, he took a day off
他给自己放了一天假希望有所收获 to do his bit for the cause.
这是他在流行艺术方面的首次尝试 It was his first stab at popular art, drawn to raise funds
目的是为“内战难民救助基金”筹款 for the Spanish War Refugee Relief Fund.
这是一个关于自称是西班牙改革者的弗朗哥将军的 It's a comic strip satire on Franco's pretensions
连环政治讽刺漫画 to be Spain's knight crusader.
所以不想往常的英雄一样骑着高头大马 So instead of a valiant hero on a stallion,.
他骑的是一根阴茎 he rides a giant phallus.
他本人则像只竖着刚毛粘乎乎的水螅 He's also a polyp, bristling and squishy,
对这个生物 毕加索称之为一坨屎 a creature Picasso himself called a turd.
我们的天才毕加索只花了一天就完成了这件作品 It takes our genius just one day to knock off this first sheet,
所以很快人们就会称他为共和国的英雄艺术家了 So it's a bit soon to call him the hero artist of the Republic.
然后就回到如何赚钱上去了 And then, well, it's back to business as usual.
然而他的作品中又注入了更多的沉思冥想 Yet more muses and meditations on art.
他甚至认为其中的一幅作品 He even thinks one of those might do
可以完成他曾经答应的 for the job he'd promised for the Spanish pavilion
帮助设计博览会西班牙馆那个任务 at the international exhibition.
然后生命与艺术联结到了一起 And then life caught up with art.
那是在格尔尼卡的下午四点钟左右 It's about four in the afternoon in the little town of Guernica,
这个小镇位于西班牙北部 离毕尔巴鄂约15英里 15 miles from Bilbao, in the north of Spain.
有七千名群众去参加 Seven thousand souls
古老的巴斯克人的故乡举行的集市 going about their market-day business in the ancestral homeland of the Basques.
这个民族有着自己的语言、文化以及强烈的身份认同感 A people with their own language, culture and fierce sense of identity.
在内战期间 巴斯克人坚决反对弗朗哥 In the raging Civil War, the Basques were stalwartly anti-Franco.
蓝色的天空中出现了一个小黑点 A black speck appears in the blue.
这个黑点是德国的飞机 来自纳粹空军的秃鹰飞行中队 The solitary plane is German, from the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion.
它掠过小镇上空 It wheels over the town,
随手扔下了六枚炸弹 then, almost casually, drops six bombs.
一拨一拨的德国和意大利飞机编队飞来了 Waves of German and Italian aircraft,
然后就是一场残酷无情的大屠杀 flying in formation, created a relentless storm of havoc.
超过5000枚炸弹投向了这个无助的小镇 Over 5,000 bombs were dropped on the defenceless town.
当人们逃向街道和田野时 When the people of Guernica fled into the streets and fields,
飞行员们就用机枪扫射他们 the pilots strafed them with machine-gun fire.
最后登场的是燃烧弹 A rain of incendiary bombs finished the job,
霎时小镇成了火海 最后化为灰烬 turning the town into an ashy cauldron.
秃鹰中队长官是Wolfram von Richthofen上校 The commander of the Condor Legion, Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen,
对这次行动非常满意 was extremely gratified by the action.
如外科手术般精确 如现代战争般可怕 So surgically precise, so tremendously modern.
格尔尼卡几乎被夷为平地 Guernica literally levelled to the ground.
街道上散布着的弹坑 触目惊心 Bomb craters in the streets. Simply terrific.
把格尔尼卡定为攻击目标 没有理由不会取得一场大胜 Perfect conditions for a great victory.
这个小镇没有任何被定为攻击目标的理由 There was nothing in Guernica that could possibly be designated a military target.
格尔尼卡事件的特殊之处在于其目的的明确性和行动的残忍性 What was special about Guernica was the brutality and clarity of the objective,
从空中向那些手无寸铁的村民下毒手 to terrorise defenceless civilians from the air,
同时也向西班牙其他地区和世界传达了一个讯息 and to send a message to the rest of Spain and to the world,
这就是我们能做到的 也是我们将要去做的 ''This is what we can do and this is what we will do.''
乔治.斯蒂尔是伦敦时报的通讯记者 George Steer, correspondent for The London Times,
他在毕尔巴鄂报道了这一事件 他亲自去了一趟格尔尼卡 covering the Basque war from Bilbao, got himself to Guernica.
到处都是残垣断壁 一派惨象 Blocks of wreckage slithered and crashed from the houses.
房屋残留的墙壁依然挺立 And from their sides, which were still erect,
一股股热浪扑打着我们的脸庞 the polished heat struck at our cheeks and eyes.
通宵都能听到房屋不断倒塌的声响 Throughout the night, houses were falling,
直到街道堆满了烧得红彤彤的残砖破瓦 until the streets became long heaps of red, impenetrable debris.
格尔尼卡不再具有什么立体感了 Guernica had gone Cubist.
斯蒂尔的报道被法国报纸Ce Soir再版刊登 Steer's report is reprinted in the French paper Ce Soir,
报纸在头版刊登了一幅图画 with a dramatic front-page picture.
那是毕加索的视觉想象力的体现 在夜间燃烧着的地狱 The nocturnal inferno burns itself into Picasso's visual imagination.
那就是为什么这个发生在下午的事件 That's why he pictures Guernica as a night massacre,
被称为“黑夜里的屠杀”的缘故 even though it was actually death in the afternoon.
在巴黎的工作室 In his Paris studio, Picasso summons art
毕加索运用艺术手段做了一件自己曾经做过的最为严肃的事情 说出真相 for the most serious thing he's ever attempted, telling the truth.
当然 他并不是想与斯蒂尔争风头 Of course, he's not going to compete with Steer's gritty report from Guernica.
但是如果这幅图画成功了 But if the painting succeeds, it will transcend mere factual chronicle.
它将会是结合了道德的立体主义 It will be Cubism with a conscience.
毕加索将要去做的事 What Picasso was setting out to make
是把一些异质性的东西融入现代艺术之中 was something foreign to the very nature of modern art,
对于这种艺术他早已下过定义 the art he had defined.
他尝试着去创作一幅真正的以历史为主题的现代主义作品 He was about to try and make a truly modern history painting.
这是他生命中的最高准则 It was the tallest order of his life,
他将从偶像破坏者转变为偶像制造者 to turn from icon-breaker to icon-maker.
所以 在这一刻 So everything he'd ever touched in his art and his life
其在艺术生涯中以及在生活中接触到的所有事物汇集到了一起 had to come together for this one moment.
现代主义带来的激动 The excitement of modernism,
旧派艺术带来的困扰 the obsession with the art of the past
以及本人对爱情和悲伤的亲密体验 and his own intimate experiences of love and grief.
他将需要一切能够得到的帮助 He would need all the help he could get.
在附近就有一个同伙在等着他 But there was an accomplice waiting in the wings.
他在巴黎的一家咖啡馆遇见了她 He'd met her in a Paris cafe.
他们二人几乎擦肩而过 He could hardly have missed her.
她是一名聪明的克罗地亚摄影师，名叫多拉.玛尔 Her name is Dora Maar, a Croatian photographer,
她还是个多才多艺的超现实主义者 intellectual and accomplished Surrealist.
毕加索向那个手戴着染有血迹的手套的主人发出了一个提议 Picasso made an offer for the bloodstained glove,
于是他赢得了一个炽烈如火的情人 同时也是个很有天分的助手 and won a fiery new lover and a creative partner.
多拉成了毕加索画室的常客 Dora became a fixture in the studio,
也是毕加索的非正式摄影师 and Picasso's unofficial photographer,
当他在创作“格尔尼卡”时 她为工作中的毕加索拍照 capturing him at work as Guernica evolved.
1937年5月1日 毕加索完成了这幅作品 On May 1st, 1937, Picasso gets down to it.
刚开始创作的草图比涂鸦好不到哪里去 He starts with rough sketches, barely more than scribbles.
就是用石墨笔在纸上划 Graphite on paper.
他思如泉涌 手上还没有画完 脑子里就有新的灵感出现了 Thoughts racing ahead of the hand.
而且那些将要画出来的角色其实早已经在他脑中成形了 And the essential cast of characters, so long on his mind,
它们其实深入他的心灵之中，不断的在脑海里浮现 so deep in his psyche, reappear.
受伤的骏马 The wounded horse.
结实的公牛 The massive bull.
手持蜡烛的人 The candlelight bearer.
不要以为这次毕加索还是在被自己的想象力所拘禁 Don't imagine, though, that Picasso is in the remorseless grip of his new vision.
巴黎博览会就要在下周开幕了 All through the next week, with the deadline for the Paris fair coming on fast,
但是他并没有对这幅草稿进行润色加工 he does no work at all on the painting.
而是在周末去看望情人赛瑞斯和他们的孩子去了 He goes to see his other lover, Marie These, and their new baby on the weekend.
他是去劝架去了 因为赛瑞斯和多拉发生了激烈的争吵 And he umpires a catfight between her and Dora.
毕加索被搞得烦躁不安 Heady emotions swirl around Picasso,
于是乎 他不自觉的就把私生活带来的烦恼 and he can't resist transferring the complicated agony of his personal life
表现到政治艺术作品中去了 to his political art.
一个女人的头部被痛苦的线条包绕着 脸上淌着泪水 Heads of women trapped with arteries of excruciating pain,
这种形象开始出现在作品“格尔尼卡”中 punctured with tears, begin to appear in the Guernica drawings.
他成了痛苦制造商 He's become the impresario of anguish.
玛丽.赛瑞斯和他的小女儿玛雅来他的画室参观 Marie These and his young daughter, Maya, visit the studio, too.
玛雅的小手在刚完成的作品“格尔尼卡”上乱摸 小手弄得脏兮兮的 The toddler smearing her hands in the fresh paint of Guernica.
国家悲剧的景象在脑海中闪烁 Visions of domestic tragedy.
死去的婴孩，发狂的妈妈 Dead babies,
这些形象在他脑海里成型了 distraught mothers process through his mind.
所以他就开始创作了 He begins working on the actual painting.
20英尺长，12英尺高 Twenty feet long and 12 feet high,
画布大的屋里都放不下 the canvas is too tall to fit between the roof rafters and the floor of the studio,
所以只好搭在墙上 so it's propped up against the wall.
当毕加索登上梯顶在画布顶部绘画时 多拉抓拍了这个镜头 Dora snaps Picasso as he perches on a ladder to reach the top of the painting.
在如暴风雨般狂烈的灵感驱动下 他连续作战不停不休 Picasso chain-smokes his way through it in a storm of furious creativity.
在作品的早期版本中有些关于希望和蔑视的图画 In the early versions of the painting, there are images of hope and defiance.
但是随着毕加索愈来愈深的陷入这幅作品中 But as Picasso gets deeper into Guernica, those slight gestures of optimism
这些无谓的表示乐观的姿态在无法抵抗的凄惨的悲剧面前土崩瓦解了 collapse into the bleaker, overwhelming tragedy.
在早期版本的作品中的马儿受了重伤 In earlier versions, the shrieking horse with the fatal gash in its side
但是却有一匹长有翅膀的小马从伤口中飞出来 had a little winged horse, Pegasus,
那时诗和艺术诞生的神化象征 the mythical symbol of the birth of art and poetry,
艺术来自痛苦 born out of the wound, as if to say,
那仿佛在说 好的事物可能来自惨剧 omething good may come from blood.
但是这却和马身上一个菱形的黑乎乎的深洞一起终结了 But it ends with a deep, black, lozenge-shaped hole in the horse,
那个洞就处于画面上视觉的死角 right at the optical dead-centre of the painting.
落马的战士原先的形象是高贵且强壮 The fallen warrior originally was grander, stronger,
戴着头盔 像一个古典英雄 his head helmeted like a classical hero.
但是毕加索却让战士躺在地上 无力的张着嘴 But Picasso has turned the warrior on his back, mouth open, gaping,
垂着下巴 一副无助的样子 slack-jawed, helpless.
如果毕加索是个好的爱国者 If he's a good partisan,
他应该在描绘屠杀的同时传达一些向上的精神 Picasso ought to be delivering something upbeat amidst the carnage,
但是他却对那些愣头青式的乐观没有什么胃口 but he hasn't the stomach for callow optimism.
所以血债血偿的信号虽然是传达出来了 但是却是那么的微弱 So the signs of redemption now are puny, though telling.
一朵雏菊 A single daisy.
令人吃惊的是，在战士的手掌有处明确的刺痕 And on the fallen warrior's hand, startlingly, an unmistakable puncture mark.
那是殉教的基督徒的特征 The stigmata of the martyred Christ.
毕加索怎么会有此一笔呢 他不是被认为是现代主义者吗 What brought this into Picasso's head? Wasn't he supposed to be the worldly modernist?
弗朗哥将军不也是被认为是基督徒战士吗 Wasn't it General Franco who was supposed to be the Christian soldier?
当然 这是个重点所在 Well, that was the point, of course.
这是点睛之笔 反败为胜的关键 The idea was to turn the tables on all those holy rollers.
现在在毕加索的脑海里 What was in Picasso's head now was one more indelible image
祖国给他带来的烦恼挥之不去 of the agony of his nation.
而且每一个西班牙人都将会知道 And one which every Spaniard would have known,
1808年5月3日 戈雅 Goya's 3rd of May, 1808.
这也是一个艺术家面对残酷与屠杀时的反应 This, too, was the response of an artist seething at cruelty and massacre.
作品描述的是那些曾经对拿破仑的入侵奋起反抗的人 In this case, the execution in Madrid
在马德里被枪决时的场景 of the rebels who had risen against Napoleon's invading army.
但是这却被渲染上了古老基督徒希望的色彩 But it's coloured by an ancient Christian hope,
这种想法尤其盛行于西班牙 especially deeply rooted in Spain,
那就是救赎 that of salvation.
奋起的反抗导致了一个救世主式人物的死亡 The defiant rebel is dying a saviour's death,
伸展的手臂就像被钉上十字架的耶稣 arms flung wide like the crucified Christ.
在他张开的手掌上赫然有着基督徒的符号 The stigmata appearing on his opened palm.
还有些别的东西把戈雅的这幅枪决作品与毕加索的屠杀作品联系在一起 There's something else that ties Goya's execution to Picasso's slaughter,
他二人并没有按常规去创作艺术作品 something that turns the conventions of art on their head,
那是光的善恶角色的交替转换 and that's the alternation of light from good to evil.
在所有与艺术有关的写作中 所有与绘画有关的每件事 In everything ever written about art, everything ever done in painting,
光都是带来美丽与高贵的使者 light is the bringer of beauty, of sublime dignity.
但是这里却不是 Not here.
在这里 光成了屠杀的工具 Here it's the instrument of slaughter.
在微暗的灰黄色光线笼罩下 The sallow gleam in which the machine men go about their dirty business
那些如同机械般的士兵仅仅是为了服从命令就去从事罪恶的勾当 in the dead of night. Just obeying orders.
现在 看看格尔尼卡吧 Now, look at Guernica.
你会感到那些堆积如山的尸体开始膨胀开来 You feel the heave and swell of that pyramid of writhing bodies,
仿佛要破画而出 不是吗 thrusting up through the painting, don't you?
他们为什么如此的紧张呢？ But what do they strain towards?
一只邪恶的眼睛 An evil eye.
在那只邪恶的眼睛里 And within that evil eye,
有一只发出残忍光线的电灯泡 the merciless glare of a single electric light bulb.
这是毁灭者发出的光 It's the incandescence of the exterminating angel,
就像是杀人小分队或者寻找目标的轰炸机飞行员用的探照灯 the searchlight of the death squad and the targeting bomber.
空悬于牢房中的孤零零的一只灯泡 The bare bulb of the torturer's cell.
与它相对应的是 Against it is the candlelight, held straight out
由一只如英雄般完美的手臂举持着的烛光 by a heroically beautiful arm.
于是 一场善光与恶光之间的战争开始了 An epic battle, then, of the good and the wicked lights.
艺术VS邪恶 Art versus evil.
当放下画笔时 他意识到自己完成了一件不可能的任务 When he's finished painting, he knows he's done the impossible.
这幅作品触到了现代梦魇的内心 Created something that reaches deep into modern nightmares,
兴奋的脸庞 恐惧的表情 燃烧的烈火 尖叫的人们 hectic, terrifying, burning, screaming.
那里没有出路可走 There's no way out.
它极具现代主义 It's defiantly modern,
但是它也把我们拉回到了那个悲剧性的时代 but it also pulls us back into the tragedy of the ages.
这是一场立体主义冲击波 也是一座经典的纪念碑 A Cubist commotion, yet also a classical monument,
在尸山旁边是一个处于悲痛中的女人 with it's wailing women flanking the massive pyramid of death.
这不过是画在帆布上的一幅画 It's just paint and canvas,
但是它却具有坚如磐石的权威性 but it has the authority of stone.
它炸不烂，摧不毁 It's unbombable, it's indestructible.
因为这幅作品已经成为了一个奇迹 For this picture achieves a miracle.
尽管众多关于暴行和灾难的图画充斥眼前 Despite all the images of violence and disaster with which we're bombarded,
但是它却显得那么与众不同 it makes us feel it.
它渗入我们的肌肤直达心灵 It gets under our skin.
对于我来说 这就是艺术必须去做的事情 是艺术的责任所在 This, for me, is what all great art has to do,
它有义务破除我们那些陈规陋习 crash into our lazy routines.
格尔尼卡惨剧 The routine that Guernica tears into
是我们也是毕加索时代的一块伤痕 is a sickness of our, as well as Picasso's, time.
轻易发动暴行的习惯 The habit of taking violent evil in our stride.
对屠杀的厌恶 The yawn at the massacre.
既然以前见过了 就请走开吧 Seen it before, go away.
不要破坏了艺术的娱乐性 Don't spoil the fun of art.
但是“格尔尼卡”可不是来取悦我们的 But Guernica isn't with us for fun.
而是去揭开伤疤 It's there to rip away the scar tissue.
让我们流血 彻夜难眠 To make us bleed, to rob us of our sleep.
那么 当炸弹坠落之时艺术能做些什么呢 So, what can art do when the bombs start dropping?
它会让我们意识到作为人类的一员的义务所在 It can instruct us on the obligations of being human.
不管怎么说 最终毕加索胜利了 In all the ways that really counted, Picasso had won,
这是艺术的胜利 也是人性的胜利 art had won, humanity had won.
那么 这幅作品在巴黎世界博览会以及艺术界掀起波澜了吗 So, does Guernica storm the Paris World Fair and the world of art?
看来是没有 真的 Well, no, not really.
人们的反应是掩盖于礼貌之下的讥讽 The response is devastatingly polite.
评论家的反应是发呆而不是驱散人们的困惑不解 Critics are more bemused than blown away.
来自西班牙的左翼参观者以及其他人 Left-wing visitors to the Fair from Spain and beyond
徒然的寻找着作品中并没有表现出来的英勇不屈的英雄形象 looked in vain for muscular proletarians in heroic attitudes.
或者能看到敌人邪恶的嘴脸形象也行 Or even the grim-faced bad guys in malevolent poses.
一位艺术批评家认为这不过是作者的一时头脑发热 One critic described the painting as nothing more than a private brainstorm,
当然 部分是这样的 which, of course, it partly was.
但是“格尔尼卡”受到了是众人冷漠的赞扬 Whilst Guernica is bathed in rather lukewarm praise,
毕加索携多拉及一众好友去法国普罗旺斯的蓝色海岸度假 Picasso is off to the Cote d'Azur with Dora and his posse of friends.
不过他已经不再像往常那样如吉普赛人般在海滩瞎胡混了 But there is now more to Picasso than the bohemian beach-bum act.
这位艺术家的内心已经发生了转变 He is an artist transformed.
他开始认为自己的艺术 An artist who believes his art has a political purpose
已经具有了些许政治意义 and a political message.
在“格尔尼卡”以及我其它作品中 In Guernica, and all my art,
我表达了对军事阶层的反感憎恶 I express my revulsion of the military caste
是他们让西班牙跌入痛苦的深渊 who have sunk Spain into an ocean of pain.
格尔尼卡事件后过了两年 Two years after Guernica,
弗朗哥终于在西班牙掌权 Franco was victorious in Spain
同时法西斯主义也开始横扫欧洲大陆 and fascism was eviscerating Europe.
“格尔尼卡”不仅仅是幅画 它也是个预言 Guernica was not just a painting, it was a prophecy.
经过四年艰苦卓绝的战争 In 1944, after four years of gruelling war,
巴黎于１９４４年被解放了 Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation,
毕加索开始能够自由的与崇拜他的公众见面 and Picasso was free to meet an adoring public.
人们蜂聚在他的工作室 And how they flocked to the studio,
如饥似渴的探询“格尔尼卡”的创作过程 hungry for stories about Guernica's creation.
他满足了人们的要求 He obliges the fans and groupies lingering on those years,
就像一个老的战地指挥官再次体验了往日最得意的战役带来的喜悦 like an old field marshal reliving his finest campaign.
是啊 这就是他最引以为豪的一场战役 Well, this was his finest campaign.
毕加索曾经把这个创作过程就像描述成一种几近油尽灯枯才思枯竭的状态 Picasso once described the creative process as a kind of complete emptying.
1937年那狂热的几个月中 He'd put so much of everything he had to offer in the world into Guernica,
他把如此多的对世界的人生体验都倾注进了这幅作品 during those few, feverish months of 1937.
以至于并没有留下太多的精力进行后续的创作生涯 But afterwards, there was not much left in the creative tank.
他已经孜孜不倦的工作了30年 He had 30 years of work ahead.
那是他的艺术生涯里漫长的最悲伤的虎头蛇尾的３０年 The longest, saddest anti-climax in the history of art.
帕勃罗．毕加索成为了毕加索同志 Pablo Picasso becomes Comrade Picasso,
他成了一名法国共产党党员 the Cote d'Azur communist,
成了为肩负和平大业政党工作的雇用艺术家 knocking off hack work for the party of peace and goodwill.
对于斯大林来说 比做一个海报男孩儿更糟的会是什么呢 只不过是个海报男孩嘛 And what's worse than being a poster boy for Stalin? Well,just being a poster boy.
他现在已是名人了 由于经常到地中海沿岸 皮肤晒更黑了 Settling into celebrity, the Riviera tan ever-deepening,
毕加索的照片不怎么出现在马克思主义报刊上 转而出现在时尚杂志上 Picasso leaps from the pages of Marxist critiques to the fashion glossies.
相比之下 “格尔尼卡”开始积聚起象征力量 In contrast, Guernica accumulates symbolic power.
这幅作品到达纽约市后 The painting takes up residence in New York City
被收藏于现代艺术博物馆中 where, for three decades, it burns with moral heat
此后整整30年 它在人们心中激起了一波又一波的道德热浪 on the walls of the Museum of Modern Art.
作品的创作者做出了一件自己都没有预见到的事情 Its creator had done something no one who'd known him could ever have predicted.
他把现代艺术 He'd rescued modern art from the curse of its own cleverness,
从自身的新奇不为世人所了解的窘境中解救了出来 from the curse of novelty.
“格尔尼卡”的意义应该比艺术本身还要大 Guernica's always been bigger than art.
仅仅一座博物馆是盛不下它的 Uncontainable by mere museum walls.
它是少数能够 It's one of those very rare creations
融入公众文化血流之中的少数作品之一 that gets into the bloodstream of the common culture.
1981年弗朗哥去世 民主得以复活 In 1981, with Franco dead and democracy at last alive,
“格尔尼卡”终于找到了回家的路 Guernica found its way home to Spain.
毕加索没有等到这一天，因为他在八年前去世了 Picasso never saw its return, having died eight years before,
但是他意味深长的表示他的作品会比弗朗哥长命 but he relished the prospect that his painting would outlast Franco.
就是这幅作品 现在安详的居住在马德里 Here's the old thing, comfortably settled in Madrid.
当你认为 好吧 这是一件伟大的遗物 And just when you think, ''Well, it's a magnificent relic,''
但是处在这个数字化时代 what can it possibly have to say to us
它能够对我们诉说些什么呢？ ''in our video-saturated, digitally-enhanced age?''
时机一到 这些古老的黑白色的角色就会苏醒 something comes along to awaken from those old black-and-white characters
然后 创作之初存在的那种狂暴力量就会奔涌而出 the tempestuous force of their original creation.
2003年2月 In February 2003,
出席联合国大会的美国代表团 the American delegation to the United Nations
开始做出一个悲观的决定 decided to make its pessimistic case
他们有可能武装干涉伊拉克 for the likelihood of armed intervention in Iraq.
柯林.鲍威尔在安理会发言完毕之后 有个例行的新闻发布会 Colin Powell's presentation to the Security Council was to be followed by a press conference.
当时 在最后时刻 And then, at the last minute,
有人注意到自己的位置不太好 someone noticed something inconvenient about the location.
墙上挂着一幅“格尔尼卡”挂毯复制品 There was a tapestry reproduction of Guernica hanging on the wall.
噢 天哪 尖叫着的女人 ''Oh, dear. Screaming women,
燃烧的房屋 死去的婴儿 还有锯齿状的线条 burning houses, dead babies, jagged lines. ''
摄影师说 快盖上 看着它就不舒服 ''Cover it up, ''said the TVpeople. ''It's too distracting. ''
所以这个复制品就被一个蓝色大窗帘给裹上了 So Guernica was shrouded by a big blue drape.
这时有个新闻工作者说话了 The news handlers could have said,
等一下 我们可以拍摄这个画面 毕竟上面表现的可是暴君的行为 ''Hold on a minute, we could show the painting. After all, this is what tyrants do,
死亡 苦难 悲惨 但是他们没有 ''death, suffering, misery. '' But they didn't.
因为不管你怎么样对待它 However you massaged it,
只要这幅图画出现在新闻里 there was something about the way that damned picture would look on the news
会使看到它的人感到不舒服 that would upset people.
看来最好还是盖上吧 Much better to cover it up.
我认为 这是称赞艺术力量的终极方式 It was, I suppose, the ultimate backhand compliment to the power of art.
你是世界上最强大的国家 你想扁谁就扁谁 You're the mightiest country in the world, you can throw your armies around,
你能除掉暴君 you can get rid of dictators.
但是 嗨 能不能不要和一幅杰作怄气呢 But, hey, don't tangle with a masterpiece.