“Il Farnesino”：理解为“外交官”- Servus 《仆人》 

Il Farnesino / Servus

画于:罗马

Painted in: Rome 

作者评论:

这部作品的原名是“Il Farnesino”，可以理解为一名外交官，法尔内西纳的一名雇员：这是我在 1980 年考虑做的一部作品，当时我的一位同事，指的是外交生涯中的一位上级，他说： ，用罗马方言：““他有一张屁股脸！

当时我并不明白它到底是什么意思，但这个表达方式引起了我的注意，以至于我决定有一天我要为它献上一幅画（当然是因为这个表达方式！）我做了这幅作品近20年多年后。

然而，在这段时间里，我发现这些人对待别人的方式完全相反：他们对社会地位低的人傲慢，对社会地位高的人卑躬屈膝。结果，他们对下属的表现就好像他们比上帝更重要，而在他们的上级、政客和一般“最有权势的人”面前，他们像蠕虫一样爬行。

这是大多数享有社会分层地位的人的遗传性癌症（想想管家如何对待其他仆人！）。

所以我改变了作品的名称，并在拉丁语中添加了“Servus”，意思是最坏的意义上的仆人）。

苏联最伟大的作家之一果戈理，用几句精妙的笔触做了精彩的描述。我请他发言。享受阅读！

作者Nikolaj Gogol,摘自《死去的灵魂》

“假设有一个办公室－不在此地，而在遥远的地方 －在这个办公室里还有一个总管。
请你们看，当他坐在下属面前时，请你们告诉我是否感觉敬畏而无话可说呢！
除了骄傲、尊贵… 他的面部还透露出什么呢？这个时候只应该拿一只毛笔将他画下来：他就像普罗米修斯，造福人类的神一般！他如鹰察看世界，步伐即庄严又慎重。
但是，当这只飞鹰离开办公室，夹着文件走进上司办公室时，他就转变成一只小鹑，他的碎步疾走真令人失望！”

Author's comment: 

The original title of this work was "Il Farnesino", understood as "diplomat", employee of the Farnesina: a work that I thought about creating way back in 1980 when a collegue of mine, referring to a higherarchical superior in the diplomatic career, said, in Roman dialect: "He's got a face like an ass!".

At the time I didn't understand exactly what it meant, but that expression struck me so much that I decided that one day I would dedicate a painting to it (to the expression, of course!): a work that I created after about twenty years. In this period of time, however, I realized that these individuals have the gift of acting towards others in a diametrically opposite way: they are arrogant towards those who play an inferior role in society and servile towards anyone, in society, playing a more important role. 

Consequently, in front of a hierchically inferior collegue they behave as if they were beings superior to God; before hierarchical superiors, politicians, and the "most powerful" in general, they crawl like worms.

This is a cancer genetically present in the majority of those who enjoy a status in the social stratification (think of how a butler behaves towards other servants!).

I renamed the work, therefore, adding, in Latin, "Servus", meaning servile, understood in its worst sense.

An artistically brilliant description, with a few masterly brushstrokes, is made by one of the greatest Soviet writers, Nicolaj Gogol, to whom I give the floor. Enjoy the reading!

From "Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol

"Imagine, for example, that there's an office - not here, of course, but in the farthest Thule - and that in said office there's a Director.

Please, observe him while he is sitting in front of his subordinates and tell me whether you are not struck speechless with terror!

Pride, nobility... what else could his face express? All you have to do is to take a brush and portray him: he is a Prometheo, an authentic Prometheo! He peers like an eagle, he walks majestically.

But as soon as this same eagle leaves his office and, carrying papers under his arm, moves toward the office of his superior, he becomes such a partridge the way he trots, that he really disconcerts you!".