安德鲁·怀恩(1917-2009)

 
<div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div>
夸脱半196121 x 29 1/4 英寸(53.34 x 74.3 厘米(53.34 x 74.3 厘米)纸上水彩
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私人收藏,北卡罗来纳州
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展会信息
亚利桑那州图森市,亚利桑那大学艺术画廊,安德鲁-怀斯,1963年3月16日至4月14日
费城,宾夕法尼亚美术学院,安德鲁-怀斯:钢笔画、水彩画、干笔画、素描 1938 年至 1966 年,1966 年 10 月 8 日至 11 月 27 日
马里兰州巴尔的摩,巴尔的摩艺术博物馆,安德鲁-怀斯:钢笔画、水彩画、干笔画
...更。。。Ry Brush,1938 年至 1966 年的绘画,1966 年 12 月 13 日 - 1967 年 1 月 22 日
纽约,惠特尼艺术博物馆,安德鲁-怀斯:1938年至1966年的钢笔画、水彩画、干笔画、素描,1967年2月14日至4月2日
芝加哥,伊利诺伊州,芝加哥艺术学院,安德鲁-怀斯:钢笔画、水彩画、干笔画、素描 1938 年至 1966 年,1967 年 4 月 21 日至 6 月 4 日
北卡罗来纳州罗利,北卡罗来纳艺术博物馆,北卡罗来纳收藏,1967 年 10 月 10 日至 29 日
南卡罗来纳州格林维尔,格林维尔县艺术博物馆,《南方收藏中的安德鲁-怀斯》,1979 年 2 月 1 日至 3 月 31 日
弗吉尼亚州塞勒姆,罗诺克学院,藏品:罗诺克学院受托人和友人的作品和借展,1997 年 10 月 24 日至 11 月 21 日
文学
保罗-霍根,《安德鲁-怀斯;水彩画、钢笔画和素描展》,3 月 16 日至 4 月 14 日,亚利桑那州图森,1963 年(封面有插图)。
E.E. P. Richardson,"安德鲁-怀斯",《大西洋》,1964 年 6 月,第 67 页
埃德加-普雷斯顿-理查森和宾夕法尼亚美术学院,《安德鲁-怀斯》:Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966》,纽约州纽约市,1966 年,第 82 页。
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安德鲁-怀斯的作品 "夸脱半"(1961 年)属于一系列极具个人风格的作品,灵感来自于他和妻子贝茜在暴风雨来临时的一天,在田野里采摘蓝莓。那个下午成为怀斯最具代表性的钢笔画之一《遥远的雷声》(1961 年)的创作源泉,画中贝特西带着他们的狗躺在草地上,充满了暴风雨前的静谧。一幅预备水彩画《蓝莓,遥远的雷声研究》(1961 年,法恩斯沃斯艺术博物馆)进一步描绘了这一主题。"Quart and a Half "标志着萦绕心头的余韵,将焦点从人物转向静物:一个蓝莓纸盒和锡杯被遗弃在草地上,它们的功利性存在变成了记忆和缺失的象征。





画面构图精简至最基本的部分--高高的地平线、昏暗的田野,以及映入眼帘的发光的纸盒和杯子。被扰乱的草地以复杂的笔触细腻地描绘出来,成为贝茜早期存在的一个微妙索引,而现在贝茜已经消失了。这个空洞的印记成为这幅画的情感核心,是短暂的象征。作为早期的静物画,这幅作品揭示了怀斯为最简单的物体注入深厚情感共鸣的能力,将长期以来与死亡和生命短暂性相关的静物画传统延伸为对生活经验静谧回响的冥想。这幅以水彩画成的作品还突出了怀斯在自发性和克制性之间的平衡,闪烁的小草生动逼真,但又不失严谨的构图。





"Quart and a Half "在展览历史上也颇有声誉。它曾在巡回回顾展 "安德鲁-怀斯:在费城艺术博物馆、巴尔的摩艺术博物馆和惠特尼美国艺术博物馆展出(1966-67 年)。此前,这幅作品被选为 1963 年亚利桑那大学艺术画廊展览目录的封面图片,突出了它在怀斯作品中的重要地位。这幅水彩画与《遥远的雷声》及其研究报告一起,将一次共同的野餐变成了对记忆、无常和日常生活诗意的永恒冥想。
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