高中英语 Module 4 Fine Arts-Western Chinese and Pop Arts试题（含解析）外研版必修2.doc

Module 4 Fine Arts– Western, Chinese and Pop Arts

英国画家劳里的工业英国画作
British artist LS Lowry’s paintings of industrial, working-class Britain brought him popular fame in the UK. LS Lowry, with his depictions of everyday northern life, is one of Britain’s best loved painters.
英国画家LS 劳里的画作描述了工业时代下的、工人阶级的英国,因此在英国名声大噪。他的画作描述了北方民众的日常生活,劳里因此也成为了英国最受追捧的画家之一。
But remarkably, for such an icon of modern British art, no solo exhibition of his work has ever been held outside the UK. Until now, a collection of Lowry paintings is being shown at an exhibition in Nanjing in eastern China.
但值得注意的是,即使对于这样一个现代英国艺术的标志性人物,他的个人展出也仅限于英国国内。但如今不是了。在中国东部的城市南京,劳里的画展正在进行。
Lowry’s canvases depict a side of British life that’s now gone. The one above, Mill Scene, from 1965, is reminiscent of many of his paintings, with its smoke stacks and hurrying crowds of workers.
劳里的画作里所描述的那些英国人的生活景象已经远去。上边的一张图是《米尔辛》,1965年的作品,让人想起了他的许多旧作,里边画着林立的烟囱和疾行的工人们。
The curators hope Lowry’s paintings will resonate with Chinese audiences because they will see echoes of their own economic development and the problems it causes.
美术馆长们希望劳里的画作可以让中国的观赏者产生共鸣,因为他们可以在这些画里看到自家的经济发展及其带来的问题。
Some see in Lowry’s decades of work, not a depiction of industrial strength, but a bleak portrayal of long industrial decline. Alongside the parallels with the present, Chinese audiences may well find hints and warnings about the future.
劳里几十年间的画作,在一些人看来,描述的并不是工业盛世,而是黯淡而长期的工业萧条。今日与昨日相比,中国的观众也许很容易找到未来的迹象和启示。
Nature and Art自然与艺术
—By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music.
无论从色彩还是形状来讲,大自然都蕴涵着所有的绘画成分,就如同键盘包含着所有音乐的音符一样。
But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful—as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony.
而艺术家天生便具有这种才华,从这些成分中选择,并巧妙地结合起来,绘一幅美丽的画卷。这就好比是音乐家从无序的声音中选择音符,形成自己的和弦之音,创作出优美和谐的乐章。