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托福听力解析:观念艺术

2016-12-12 12:03:01来源:网络

  为了帮助大家高效备考托福,新东方在线托福网为大家带来托福听力解析:观念艺术一文,希望对大家托福备考有所帮助。更多精彩尽请关注新东方在线托福网!

  一篇今天最难的一篇讲座,第一个SECTION的艺术史讲座,讲的话题是观念艺术(conceptual art)。是的,观念艺术,极其抽象的话题,也很少提到,更何况很多考生没有听懂这个单词:conceptual,所以从头到尾就只是“C艺术”而已。我们来看看这篇听力讲座开头对观念艺术的定义:

  One of the main ideas conceptual artists explored was what makes art art. Remember conceptual artists rejected traditional notions of art, rejected that only paintings or sculptures could be considered art and that all art has to be beautiful to look at. Instead art was an idea itself rather than a physical manifestation of an idea. And that idea made you think, then work was successful. Typically nontraditional mediums were used, like video or photography.

  这段定义很抽象,但有没有注意到上面这段话里,有一个标红单词出现的很频繁:idea,这就是观念艺术所追求的“观念”,也是这篇讲座第二题的答案。

  2. What main goal of Conceptual Art does the professor mention?

  Art should invite analysis of ideas.

  接下来教授举了观念艺术早期的一幅作品,Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs(下图)。

托福听力解析:观念艺术

  Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs (1965)

  左边墙上画了一把椅子,中间地上摆了一把椅子,右边墙上是椅子在字典里的定义。这是为了提醒人们椅子以三种形式存在,这个观念就是艺术作品,与椅子是否没毫无关系,而是来自于对椅子存在的多种形式的思考。教授在介绍完这幅作品之后,说了一句意味深长的话:So good for Kosuth。这句话成了第三题的答案。

  3. What is the professor’s attitude toward Kosuth’s work entitled One and Three Chairs?

  He thinks that the work achieves the main aim of Conceptual Art.

  在介绍完Kosuth的作品之后,教授说观念艺术其实刚开始也并不为大众(public)和评论家(critic)所接受,而真正让这个艺术运动流行的人正是今天讲座的话题,我们看原文:

  Well today I like to focus on one conceptual artist whose work was very well received. Because unlike other conceptual artists, his work is immediately accessible. That artist is William Wegman. His earliest works were mainly clever, amusing, often observed short videos of himself that addressed intellectually complex ideas from an unusual angle. For example, he videotaped himself humorously imitating a television commercial . . . . . . Wegman began using May Ray in his short videos which brought an additional highly appealing and accessible element into the absurd angle of his videos. Man Ray added affection, sweetness and because of that Wegman and Man Ray became famous. For example, in a video entitled spelling lesson . . . . . .

  教授说今天主要讲的艺术家是Wegman,他的作品聪明有趣,容易被大众接受,而且经常自拍一些录像,以非寻常角度解决智力复杂(intellectually complex)的观念,举例拍除臭剂(deodorant)的广告,足足在身上喷了一分钟,然后说好有用啊,其实是讽刺,引起了很多老百姓共鸣。另外,教授说Wegman在录像里使用了May Ray(这是一只狗狗的名字)以增加吸引力。May Ray带来了什么效果呢?喜欢(affection),甜蜜(sweetness)。然后教授举例,有一个录像,Wegman给May Ray纠正拼写错误,教它读,读的很古怪,而且最后狗狗还道歉了。

  各位看看下一道题的难度在哪儿,就是两个例子支撑的东西是不可以混淆的,但是,多少人在这里的细节完全没听懂,根本没有混淆的可能。

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