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我六岁的时候，有一次在一本描写原始森林，名为《百兽生猛史》的书里，看见过一幅令人惊叹的插图。图上画的是一条蟒蛇在吞噬一头野兽，下图是我对那幅插图的临摹。 书里是这样讲的："蟒蛇吃掉其猎物时，总是囫囵吞入，无须咬嚼。吞下之后，它们就动弹不了，然后一睡就是六个月，躺在那里静静地消化食物。" 看过后，我对原始森林里百兽争斗的情景思索了好久，接着，就用一支彩色笔，画出我生平的第一张图画，即我的"绘画作品第一号"。 我把自己这幅得意之作拿给成年人看，还问他们看了害不害怕。 他们回答我说："为什么要怕一顶帽子呢？” 我画的当然不是一顶帽子，而是一条刚吞下一头大象的蟒蛇。为了使那些成年人明白，我又画出蟒蛇一侧的剖面图。成年人总需要别人对他们多加解释。 Once when I was six years old 1 saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing. In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion." I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this: I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. But they answered: "Frighten? Why should anyone be frightened by a hat?" My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. |
