Picasso 毕加索

 

E: Eleanor       J: Jules

E:埃莉诺          J：朱尔斯

 

E:Jules, just look at this amazing painting.

E:朱尔斯，过来看看这幅画，真令人叫绝。

 

J： It is amazing, but what is it exatly?

J：真的太让人惊讶了，不过这究竟画的是什么？

 

E: It's a Picasso! The style you are looking at is called "Cubism", it does look kind of strange, I must admit.

E:是毕加索的画！你看到的这种风格叫立体派，我得承认确实看起来有点古怪。

 

J: Yes, strange but beautiful. What's it called?

J：是的，有点怪但很漂亮。这幅画叫什么名字？

 

E: Let me see .... this one is Les Demoiselles de Avignon, painted in 1907.

E:我看看……叫：《亚威农的少女》，画于1907年。

 

J: 1907? That's one hundred years ago, but his work looks so modem!

J：1907年？那是l00年前了，可是他的作品看起来那么现代！

 

E: Well. he was born in 1881 , so I guess all of his pieces are old.  Did you know he created over 20, 000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theatre sets and costumes?

E：的确是。毕加索生于1881年，所以我想他所有的作品都是年代很久远的口他创作了20，000多幅油画，还有版画、素描、雕刻、陶艺．舞台设计和服装，你知道这些吗？

 

J: He muse have lived to be a very old man to do all of that during his life.

J：他一定是毕生都在创作，而且很长寿。

 

E: He died when he was 92, so he had a long life, yes.

E:他去世时是92岁，寿命是很长。

 

J: I heard he was a bit of a womaniser, he had many girlfriends, who he often painted and had many children.

J：我听说他很风流，有很多女朋友，经常为她们作画，还有很多孩子。

 

E: Yes, that's true. But I chink he only married twice. His true love was a lady called Jacqueline, who he married in 1961 By then he was already 79 years old!

E:是的，确实如此。但是我认为他只结过两次婚。他真正爱的是一个叫杰奎琳的女子。他们在1961年结婚，那时他已经79岁了。

 

J: Oh, yes, I have heard of her, he painted something for her.  I remember reading that in a magazine.

J：哦，没错。我听说过她。他为她画过一些画。我记得在一本杂志上读过相关报道。

 

E: In the painting he was a faun. calmly and coolly gazing with mature confidence and wisdom at a nymph who blows her instrument to the stars.

E:在这幅画中他是半人半羊状的农牧神，带着成熟的自信和智慧，平静、沉着地凝视着宁芙女神，她正对着星星吹奏乐器。

 

J: So, the picture embraces his spellbound love for Jacqueline. How romantic !

J：所以．从这幅画就可看出他对杰奎琳执着的爱。多么浪漫啊！

 

E: That one was called Faun and Starry Night, he painted it in 1955 before they got married. Look, it's here in the book.

E:这幅画叫做《农牧神和星夜》，是1955年在他们结婚前画的。看，就在这本书里。

 

J: Yes, that’s the one! I know that one, but what’s this one? It says it was painted in 1929.

J：是的，就是这个，我知道这画。那这幅是什么？土面说画于1929年。

 

E: This one is called Nude Standing by the Sea, this one is very strange！

E:这幅画叫《在海滨的女人》，非常与众不同！

 

J: Look at her body, all the shapes are wrong, It is very striking though.

J：看，她的身体曲线全画错了。不过很引入注意。

 

E: This is called " Surrealist Imagery" , where he distorted figures and morphed them together. He started it during the 1920s.

E:这叫做超现实主义肖像，他扭曲了人的外形，然后再把它们组合在一起。他是从20世纪20年代开始创作这种作品的。

 

J: Well, it may be strange, but I like it. I think that Picasso must have been a real genius.

J：也许是有点怪，不过我喜欢这种作品。我认为毕加索一定是个真正的天才。

 

【单词词组】

A bit of womaniser风流

very striking非常显眼，醒目

blow instrument吹奏乐曲

Distort figure扭曲外形

 

【背景介绍】

毕加索，西班牙画家、雕塑家。法国共产党党员。是现代艺术的创始人，西方现代派绘画的主要代表。他于1907年创作的《亚威农少女》是第一 张被认为有立体主义倾向的作品，是一幅具有里程碑意义的著名杰作。它不仅标志着毕加索个人艺术历程中的重大转折，而且也是西方现代艺术史上的一次革命性突 破，引发了立体主义运动的诞生。这幅画在以后的十几年中竟使法国的立体主义绘画得到空前的发展，甚至还波及到芭蕾舞、舞台设计、文学、音乐等其他领域。 《亚威农少女》开创了法国立体主义的新局面，毕加索与勃拉克也成了这一画派的风云人物。毕加索的立体主义是探索出光是螺旋状照射的前身。他的抽象画已经基 本表现出太阳光是螺旋状照射的了。如果大家都有这个认知（光是螺旋状照射的，就不难理解抽象画作的叠加和分解了。）因为有这一认知，大家会改变过去对光线 是直射的这一错误的认识了。