托福口语练习 非主流艺术

Explain why Henry Dodger¹ is considered an Outsider Artist.

请解释说明为什么大家认为Henry Dodger是一位非主流艺术家。

Now read a passage about Outsider Art from a Modern Art textbook.

请阅读下面这篇选自现代艺术课本的关于非主流艺术的文章。

You will have 45 seconds to read the passage. Begin reading now.

你将有45秒的时间阅读文章。现在开始计时。

Now listen to part of a lecture in an Art History class.

请听艺术史课上的部分内容。

All right, so let's consider the works² of outsider artist Henry Dodger.

好了，我们来聊一聊非主流艺术家Henry Dodger的作品。

Dodger lived by himself in a tiny apartment in Chicago in the 1900s.

二十世纪初，Dodger独自生活在芝加哥的一个小公寓里。

He had no friends and spent all his spare time there alone creating hundreds of paintings and drawings.

他没有朋友，而且所有的空闲时间都待在那个小公寓里独自一人创作着数百幅画作。

He had never formally studied art and kept his work completely³ private,

他从没正式学过画画，也从来没有公开过他的作品，

so no one ever saw it or responded⁴ to it during his life time.

所以，他在世的时候没有人看过或回应过他的作品。

And so, when you see Dodger's work you notice how unique it is.

正因如此，当你看到Dodger的作品时会发现它们是如此独特。

It doesn't remind you of anything you've ever seen before. It's very much his own.

这种类型的作品之前从未出现在我们眼前。完全是他自己的创作。

For example, one piece, it's a water-color painting,

举个例子来说，有一幅作品，一幅水彩画，

in this piece he illustrates⁵ a story, about the adventure of seven children.

在这幅作品中，Dodger讲述了一个关于七个孩子的冒险之旅的故事。

But see, Dodger had a really hard time drawing human figures.

不过事实上，画人物形象对Dodger来说实在是件难事。

Yet he managed to come up with his own rather unique solution for the problem.

然而对于这个问题，他还是想到了一个独具特色的解决方法。

He simply cut out pictures of children from newspapers and magazines

他直接从报纸和杂志上把孩子的照片剪下来，

and pasted them into his own painted illustrations⁶ of trees, flowers and grass.

然后把它们糊进了他画的有树、花和草的图里。

The results look, um, a little strange.

成品看上去..有点奇怪。

Dodger's picture looks more cluttered⁷, more crowded with details than the pictures of other artists,

Dodger的画看上去比其他画家的作品更加凌乱，细节更加丰富，

because its entire surface is painted and there are no spaces left empty.

因为画的整个表面都涂上了颜料，没有任何空白的地方。

It's also a lot longer than pictures of most other artists, about nine feet long.

他的画也比大部分其他画家的要长得多，大概有9英尺长。

1 dodger   

n.躲避者；躲闪者；广告单

参考例句：

• They are tax dodgers who hide their interest earnings.他们是隐瞒利息收入的逃税者。
• Make sure she pays her share she's a bit of a dodger.她自己的一份一定要她付清--她可是有点能赖就赖。

2 works   

n.作品，著作；工厂，活动部件，机件

参考例句：

• We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
• The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。

3 completely   

adv.完全地，十分地，全然

参考例句：

• She never completely gave up hope.她从不完全放弃希望。
• I feel completely in the dark on this question.这件事使我感到茫然。

4 responded   

回答，回报，响应( respond的过去式和过去分词 )； 有反应； 有效果； 有影响

参考例句：

• Most of the staff who responded to the questionnaire were supportive. 回答了问卷的职员大多数表示支持。
• She responded to the news by bursting into tears. 她听到那个消息后眼泪夺眶而出。

5 illustrates   

给…加插图( illustrate的第三人称单数 )； 说明； 表明； （用示例、图画等）说明

参考例句：

• This historical novel illustrates the breaking up of feudal society in microcosm. 这部历史小说是走向崩溃的封建社会的缩影。
• Alfred Adler, a famous doctor, had an experience which illustrates this. 阿尔弗莱德 - 阿德勒是一位著名的医生，他有过可以说明这点的经历。 来自中级百科部分

6 illustrations   

n.插图( illustration的名词复数 )；图表；例证；说明

参考例句：

• The otherwise dreary book is enlivened by some very amusing illustrations. 这本枯燥乏味的书幸亏加了一些精彩的插图才变得生动有趣。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The illustrations were cleverly tied in with the text. 插图与本文配合得很巧妙。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 cluttered   

v.杂物，零乱的东西零乱vt.( clutter的过去式和过去分词 )；乱糟糟地堆满，把…弄得很乱；（以…） 塞满…

参考例句：

• The room is cluttered up with all kinds of things. 零七八碎的东西放满了一屋子。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The desk is cluttered with books and papers. 桌上乱糟糟地堆满了书报。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》