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第68章 The Giants in Painting 画坛巨擘(7)

It is a place well-loved by artists such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Renoir, it continues to impress any visitor who experiences its pleasures。

这里曾深受梵高、毕加索和雷诺阿等艺术家的喜爱,也一直让前来体验当地乐趣的游客留下深刻的印象。

Brightly colored paintings by Congo the chimpanzee are going on sale at a prestigious London auction house alongside works by Andy Warhol and Renoir。

伦敦一家著名的拍卖行将出售黑猩猩刚果的绘画作品。这些色彩明艳的绘画将同画家安迪·沃霍尔和雷诺阿的作品一起被拍卖。

Bob might have discovered his own style and become a modern-day Renoir or Gauguin。

他也可能发现自己的风格,成为一个现代的雷诺瓦或高更。

Renoir’s new nude works were a break and were more beautiful than artist Rubens。

雷诺阿的女性人体画相比几百年前的鲁本斯作品又有了新的突破,给人的感受又是另外一种美。

Renoir was producing sculptures in his studio,雷诺阿正在他的工作室里雕塑。

Renoir was in his later period of creation。

雷诺阿已处于创作晚期。

He bought Pierre-Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party。

他购买了皮埃尔·雷诺阿的《游船上的午餐派对》。

Though Renoir painted a lot of works in his life, he never published his theory about oil painting, and which was the reason for few conclusion being formed on his works all over the world。

雷诺阿的一生虽然画了大量的著名作品,但他却很少发表有关绘画的理论,这也就是在国内外许多有关雷诺阿的资料中,很少有对雷诺阿的绘画有一个明确的个人绘画观点和总结的原因。

Let’s Talk!

开始交流吧!

Mike: This girl is very beautiful。

麦克:这个小女孩很漂亮。

Daisy: That’s Renoir’s painting。

黛西:那是雷阿诺的画。

Mike: Is he a famous painter·

麦克:他是个很出名的画家吗·

Daisy: Yes, he is especially good at painting human beings。

黛西:是的,他很擅长画人物。

Mike: Do you have other works of him·

麦克:你有他的其他作品吗·

Daisy: I used to have, but some of them are lost when I moved。

黛西:我以前有,但一些在搬家中丢失了。

Mike: That’s a pity; do you like him a lot·

麦克:那很可惜,你非常喜欢他吗·

Daisy: Yes, I really like his style。

黛西:是的,我非常喜欢他的风格。

Mike: Though I do not know him, I really like the painting too。

麦克:虽然我不了解他,但我确实很喜欢这幅画。

Daisy: I can give it to you。

黛西:我可以把它送给你。

Mike: But you like it a lot。

麦克:但是你很喜欢它。

Daisy: That’s OK; I have a lot of paintings。

黛西:没关系,我还有很多画。

Mike: Thank you。

麦克:谢谢。

Claude Monet

克劳德·莫奈

莫奈是法国最重要的画家之一,印象派的理论和实践大部分都有他的推广。莫奈擅长光与影的实验与表现技法。他最重要的风格是改变了阴影和轮廓线的画法,在莫奈的画作中看不到非常明确的阴影,也看不到突显或平涂式的轮廓线。

About Monet

关于莫奈

Claude Monet, born Oscar Claude Monet, was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting。 The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant)。

Oscar-Claude Monet was born November 14, 1840 in Paris, France, the second son of Claude-Adolphe and Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet。 In 1845, the Monets moved to the port town of Saint-Adresse, near Le Havre。 Young Claude obtained his “classical” education at La Havre’s secondary school。

Around 1856 or 1857, Monet began taking pastel and oil painting lessons from Eugene Boudin。 Boudin, who worked primarily outdoors, encouraged Monet to do the same。 Monet later said, “Suddenly the veil was torn away…… My destiny as a painter opened out to me。” For the next 60 years he explored the effects of light on outdoor scenes。 He was the first artist to let his initial impressions stand as completed works, rather than as “notes” done in preparation for work in the studio。 In 1859, Monet moved to Paris to pursue his art, where he met and befriended Camille Pissarro and Edouard Manet。

In 1874, Monet and a group of painters including Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir banded together to form a society of artists。 They gave a public exhibition of their work at the studio of a Paris photographer。 Monet exhibited a painting called Impression: Sunrise。 His painting gave the group its name, coined in derision by critic Louis Leroy referring to the entire exhibition as “Impressionistic。” Despite the financial failure of this first exhibit, the Impressionist continued to exhibit together until 1886。

莫奈是印象主义的创始人之一,是印象主义大师中最有影响的一位。在有代表性的印象派画家中,唯有莫奈以其86岁的漫长人生始终如一地将创作热情倾注在印象派技法上。其他的印象派画家,都是短期的探索者,像虽然没有参加过印象派八次画展却被视为印象派领袖和奠基人的画家马奈;而擅长于画人物的雷诺阿在他的艺术人生中,前期和后期是从事印象派探索时期,中间十几年的时间里,则将热情转向了古典主义。

莫奈常常可以从普通的风景中挖掘其魅力。他观察景物细致入微,对光线的变化十分敏锐。他可以就同一处场景画出十几幅作品。如《谷堆》、《睡莲》等。而这仅仅是为了表现同一场景的不同天气、光线下的不同表象,这是其他画家很难做到的。莫奈像个隐士,有时有很强的孤独感。这一方面由于他的性格使然,他生性沉默寡言,喜爱思索:另一方面,因为他是印象派中的先行者,当他不得不单枪匹马奋力前行的时候,自然有一种寂寞寥落的感觉。

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That painting by Monet is such a beautiful piece。

莫奈的那幅画真是杰作。

One of the pieces was Monet in 1897。

其中一幅作品是克劳德·莫奈在1897年创作的。

I went to the art gallery to see the Monet Exhibition。

我去艺术画廊看了莫奈的画展。

Was Impressionism name from the monet’s Impression: Sunrise·

印象主义的名称源于莫奈的名作《日出印象》·

Monet was a French painter who lived between 1840 and 1926。

莫奈是一名法国画家,生于1840年,1926年去世。

It is here that Monet and many of his family members are buried。

莫奈和他的许多家人正是在这里埋葬。

Monet’s landscape painting, always make people’s Lenovo a lot of。

莫奈的风景画,总是让人联想颇多。

More rewarding is to speculate about how art opened Monet to Japan。

更具研究价值的是莫奈与日本艺术的情缘。

When Monet came to the Louvre in Paris, he saw many painters imitating famous artists。

当莫奈来到巴黎卢浮宫,他看到许多画家在模仿著名艺术家的作品。

Monet became known for his use of water and its surroundings illuminated by a warm glowing light。

莫奈以他喜爱用水当作题材,以及浸淫在温暖鲜明光线中的场景而闻名。

This is the concept of the performance of Monet colors。

这是莫奈色彩观念的表现。

The house contains some of the artwork Claude Monet painstakingly and lovingly collected throughout his life。

故居中保存了一些莫奈的艺术作品和他毕生珍爱的收藏。

The organizers said it’s one of the last great paintings of Monet that’s every likely to come onto the market。

拍卖组织者称这是市场上可能见到的最后几幅莫奈杰作之一。

After Monet’s death, many of these last works remained in his studio, left under the care of the artist’s son。

莫奈去世后,这些作品大部分都保存在他的工作室中,由他的儿子保管。

He formed a close friendship with his fellow student Monet。

他与同学莫奈建立了亲密友谊。

This was Monet’s description of the garden he made in the grounds of his house at Giverny, on the Seine about halfway between Rouen and Paris。

莫奈这样描述他自己在吉韦尔尼的寓所建造的花园。吉韦尔尼位于鲁昂和巴黎之间,旁边就是塞纳河。

This is a Monet exhibition。

这是一个莫奈作品展。

It is one of the many legacies left by French Impressionist painter Claude Monet。

这是法国印象派画家克劳德·莫奈遗留下来的众多作品之一。

In addition, Monet uses very fine color。

除此之外,莫奈对于色彩的运用相当细腻。