Name: 夢魘繪畫教學：讓你驚豔的技巧！ (How To Paint A Nightmare)
Uploaded: 2026-01-21T16:57:58.000Z
Duration: 6 min 35 s

My first book of essays is out in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook, which I read.

我的第一本散文集已經推出 hardcover、ebook 和 audiobook 版本，audiobook 是我自己唸的。

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If you like the Nerdwriter, I'm pretty confident you'll like this book, too.

如果你喜歡 Nerdwriter，我很有信心你也會喜歡這本書。

享受一下「是誰做的？」的樂趣。

In 1781, the Swiss painter Henri Fuseli painted A Nightmare.

1781 年，瑞士畫家 Henri Fuseli 畫了《夢魘》。

Exhibited the following year at the Royal Academy in London, it was instantly popular.

這幅畫隔年就在倫敦的 Royal Academy 展出，立刻受到歡迎。

In just a few short months, it was engraved, then made into prints and sent around Europe, eventually the world, where it had countless admirers.

幾個月內，它就被刻印成版畫，送到歐洲各地，最後傳遍全世界，有數不清的欣賞者。

What did people see in Fuseli's dark vision?

人們在 Fuseli 黑暗的視野中看到了什麼？

The nightmare depicts a woman in a white nightgown, asleep, head and arms draped over the edge of her bed.

這幅夢魘描繪了一個穿著白色睡袍的女人，她睡著了，頭和手臂垂在床邊。

Next to the bed, there's a small circular night table on which we can see a book, a glass vial, a couple containers, and

床邊有一個小圓形床頭櫃，上面可以看到一本書、一個玻璃瓶、幾個罐子，還有

In the upper left, a truly creepy horse with white eyes and pointy ears poking through a red curtain looks in the direction of an imp or a goblin or an incubus perched on the chest of the sleeping woman, looking directly at you.

在左上角，一匹長著白色眼睛、尖耳朵的馬，從紅色窗簾後面探出來，牠望向棲息在熟睡女人胸部上方、像是小鬼、哥布林或夢魘妖的東西，正直視著你。

What are we actually seeing in this painting?

我們在這幅畫裡到底看到了什麼？

我們是在夢境外面，還是在裡面？

這是我們看到的，還是她看到的？

that adds a layer of unsettling ambiguity to the painting, which is, after all, what nightmares are all about.

為這幅畫增添了一層令人不安的模糊感，畢竟這就是夢魘的全部。

The word nightmare is derived from the Old English word mare, the name for a malevolent demon or fiend from Germanic and Slavic folklore that rides on people's chests while they sleep, inducing bad dreams and a feeling of suffocation.

「nightmare」這個詞源自古英語的「mare」，這是日耳曼和斯拉夫民間傳說中一種惡毒的惡魔或精靈的名字，牠會在人們睡覺時騎在人胸部上，引發惡夢和窒息感。

Now, this is not to be confused with the word mare, meaning female horse, which has no etymological connection to nightmare.

現在，這可不能和「母馬」這個詞搞混，牠們沒有任何詞源上的關聯。

Though Fuseli was no doubt aware that the viewer might make that false connection, the painting encourages you to make whatever connections you can.

雖然 Fuseli 毫無疑問知道觀眾可能會產生這種錯誤的聯想，但這幅畫鼓勵你做出任何你能想到的聯想。

It offers no easy answers, and Fuseli didn't either.

它沒有提供簡單的答案，Fuseli 也沒有。

One common interpretation maintains that the incubus is Fuseli himself and the woman is Anna Lanhold, who he fell in love with a couple years prior in Zurich, but

一種常見的解釋認為，夢魘妖就是 Fuseli 本人，而那個女人是 Anna Lanhold，他幾年前在蘇黎世愛上了她，但是

who married another man with better prospects.

她嫁給了另一個更有前途的男人。

Unable to be with her in life, Fuseli haunts his beloved in dreams, dark and erotic dreams.

在現實生活中無法和她在一起，Fuseli 便在黑暗、情色的夢中糾纏著他心愛的女人。

This theory is supported by an interesting fact.

這個理論有一個有趣的史實支持。

On the back of this iconic canvas is actually another painting, an unfinished portrait of a woman many believe is Anna Landhold.

在這幅標誌性的畫布背面，其實還有另一幅畫，一幅未完成的女性肖像，許多人相信那就是 Anna Landhold。

Of course, this is just one of many interpretations, and that's really the point.

當然，這只是眾多詮釋中的一種，而這也正是重點所在。

Fuseli, I think, wants you to grasp for meaning, but not to find it.

我想，Fuseli 是希望你去尋找意義，但又不要輕易找到。

Assigning meaning, after all, is a form of control.

Something we all try to do with art, something I'm doing right now.

這也是我們都會試著對藝術做的事，就像我現在正在做的。

But when meaning remains elusive, as it does here, we lose control, and

但是，當意義仍然難以捉摸，就像在這裡一樣，我們就失去了控制，

這就是我們在夢魘中所感受到的。

We become vulnerable to the emotional power of the experience.

我們變得容易受到這段經歷的情感力量影響。

Fuseli heightens this emotional impact in a few ways.

Fuseli 在幾個方面加強了這種情感衝擊。

First and foremost is the intense chiaroscuro effect between the sleeper with her bright white nightgown and the muted, earthy colors of the Incubus, the horse, the night table and curtain, as well as the deep black shadows all around them.

首先也是最重要的，是睡著的女人身上明亮的白色睡袍，與夢魘妖、馬、床頭櫃和窗簾的柔和、大地色調，以及周圍深邃的黑色陰影之間，形成了強烈的明暗對比效果。

It's a dramatic composition, made more so by the curtain that isolates the foreground action as if it were on a stage.

這是一個戲劇性的構圖，窗簾將前景的動作隔離開來，彷彿舞臺上的表演，更增添了戲劇性。

This reminds me of the work of Caravaggio, master of drama, for whom Fuseli had deep admiration.

這讓我想起卡拉瓦喬的作品，他是一位戲劇大師，Fuseli 對他非常崇拜。

He, too was able to create a sensation of depth with lighting alone, without needing to put in a distant background.

他也能僅憑燈光營造出深度感，而無需加入遙遠的背景。

The effect of this is that the figures seem to push forward, almost emerging from the frame, which in this case is a frightening prospect.

這樣做的好處是，人物彷彿向前推進，幾乎要從畫框中躍出，而這在這種情況下是令人恐懼的景象。

The emotional response you have to horror, that simultaneous repulsion attraction, is what made the Nightmare so popular.

你對恐怖的感官反應，那種同時存在的排斥與吸引，正是讓《夢魘》如此受歡迎的原因。

It's also what makes it a key moment in the rise of Romanticism, which is itself an emotional response to Age of Enlightenment ideals exemplified in neoclassicist art.

這也是它成為浪漫主義興起關鍵時刻的原因，而浪漫主義本身就是對新古典主義藝術所體現的啟蒙時代理想的一種情感回應。

Fuseli was educated and trained in the techniques of neoclassicism, but

Fuseli 在新古典主義的技巧上受過教育和訓練，但是

his sensibility was romantic, even Gothic, as it clearly is here.

他的感受是浪漫的，甚至是哥德式的，就像這裡明顯表現出來的一樣。

The Nightmare shined a light that in the following decades, Romanticism's great artists, like Goethe, Mary Shelley, Byron and Blake would follow into the dark.

《夢魘》點亮了一盞燈，在接下來的幾十年裡，歌德、瑪麗·雪萊、拜倫和布萊克等浪漫主義偉大藝術家將追隨這盞燈進入黑暗。

That is, after all, where this painting lives.

In the shadows of our heart, the fear we have of what might happen.

在我們內心的陰影裡，我們對可能發生的事情的恐懼。

This episode was brought to you by Squarespace.

本集節目由 Squarespace 贊助播出。

If you don't know, you can use Squarespace to make websites for anything you might need.

如果你不知道的話，你可以用 Squarespace 來架設任何你需要的網站。

Want to make a site for your video content?

想為你的影音內容架設網站嗎？

Well, you can upload your video library directly to Squarespace and even sell access to that content.

沒問題，你可以直接把你的影音庫上傳到 Squarespace，甚至可以販售內容的觀看權限。

Or you can use the Squarespace Video Studio app to make pro level videos within Squarespace and host your content on beautiful pages designed with their easy to use blogging tools.

或者，你也可以使用 Squarespace Video Studio app，在 Squarespace 裡面製作專業級的影片，並將你的內容託管在他們易於使用的部落格工具設計的精美頁面上。

Basically, a Squarespace site is going to make whatever you're sharing or selling look professional.

基本上，Squarespace 網站能讓你想分享或販售的任何東西看起來都很專業。

And that's going to help you get the word out, whatever that word actually is.

這將有助於你傳播訊息，無論你傳播的訊息是什麼。

Head over to squarespace.com for a free trial, and

前往 squarespace.com 進行免費試用，然後

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準備好上線時，請前往 squarespace.com nerdwriter 享有首次購買 9 折優惠。