Don Bachardy 走进
心境 并非
艺术画廊
随心选择一种心境,空间便会给出回应 —— 灯光随之变冷或变暖,空气的节奏随之改变,唯有承载着那份情感的作品会从黑暗中脱颖而出。其余的一切,皆隐入阴影之中。
Don Bachardy
A Life Captured in Graphite and Light Born in Los Angeles in 1934, Don Bachardy developed an eye for the human presence that would define much of his seventy-year career. His training took him from the Chouinard Art Institute in his home city to the Slade School of Art in London, providing a technical foundation that favored direct observation over abstraction. He began drawing in his teens, driven by a fascination with the figures fou
nd in cinema and the people inhabiting the classic Hollywood era. This early interest in the moving image eventually translated into a disciplined approach to the sitting, where he sought to capture the essence of a subject within single, intensive sessions of two to three hours. In 1953, at the age of nineteen, his life became inextricably linked with the writer Christopher Isherwood. Their partnership lasted until 1986, and together…