Abstract The poet, essayist, and art critic Alice Meynell and her sister, the painter Elizabeth Butler, shared a strong interest in colour. Where Butler applies her educated chromatic sensibility to her painting, Meynell brings her own knowledgeable appreciation of the aesthetic effects and cultural and figurative significations of colour to her essays and critical work on modern art. Her lyrical explorations of the poetics of colour in the natural, urban, and cultural landscapes, and the ambition of her attempt to map the life of colour and (the title of one of her most potent essays) the colour of life, were informed by the education in the history and materiality, as well as the symbolism and aesthetics, of colour that she shared in her youth with her artist sister. Their unusually intense and colourful female sibling education, and the lifelong reciprocities of their interrelated professional lives, provide an important context for understanding Meynell’s and Butler’s individual engagement in chromatic experimentation. The ability to move between the materiality and the symbolism of colour is a significant shared feature of their creative practice that helps one to think more tangibly about the sibling interfiliation of word and image in the late nineteenth century. Attending to the meanings of colour for this unusual sorority offers a unique perspective on the uses and meanings of colour in the sister arts of literature and painting.

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姊妹艺术：爱丽丝·梅奈尔和伊丽莎白·巴特勒作品中的色彩生活和色彩生活

摘要诗人，散文家和艺术评论家爱丽丝·梅内尔（Alice Meynell）和她的姐姐画家伊丽莎白·巴特勒（Elizabeth Butler）对色彩有着浓厚的兴趣。在巴特勒将她受过教育的色彩敏感性应用于她的绘画的地方，梅内尔将她对色彩的美学效果以及色彩的文化和象征意义的了解带到了她的论文和现代艺术的批判性作品中。她对自然，城市和文化景观中的色彩诗学进行了抒情探索，并尝试绘制色彩生活和（最有力的一篇论文的标题）色彩生活的野心，是由她在青年时期与艺术家姐姐分享的色彩的历史，物质性以及象征主义和美学教育。他们异常激烈而又丰富多彩的兄弟姐妹教育，以及他们相互联系的专业生活的终生互惠互利，为理解Meynell和Butler在色彩实验中的个人参与提供了重要的背景。在色彩的实质性和象征性之间移动的能力是其创作实践的一个重要共同特征，即可以帮助人们更切实地思考十九世纪末期单词和图像的同级插入。出于这种非同寻常的忧虑而关注色彩的含义，为文学和绘画的姊妹艺术中色彩的用途和含义提供了独特的视角。在色彩的实质性和象征性之间移动的能力是其创作实践的一个重要共同特征，即可以帮助人们更切实地思考十九世纪末期单词和图像的同级插入。出于这种非同寻常的忧虑而关注色彩的含义，为文学和绘画的姊妹艺术中色彩的用途和含义提供了独特的视角。在色彩的实质性和象征性之间移动的能力是其创作实践的一个重要共同特征，即可以帮助人们更切实地思考十九世纪末期单词和图像的同级插入。出于这种非同寻常的忧虑而关注色彩的含义，为文学和绘画的姊妹艺术中色彩的用途和含义提供了独特的视角。