美語情景對話 第725期:Art 藝術

Todd: Shona, do you consider yourself an artist?

託德：夏娜，你認爲自己是藝術家嗎？

Shona: No, actually, I wouldn't use that word. I don't like when people use that word cause like artist to me is like someone who is like famous for like creating something like, there's like being a creator or a designer and there's being like an artist, and an artist like is someone who's celebrated for what they do, so I'm not really celebrated for what I do but I do like to sort of like make things, so I like to paint and I like to draw and I like to like create things and design things.

夏娜：不，我不會用這個詞形容自己。我不喜歡人們用這個詞形容我，因爲我認爲藝術家是以創造而聞名的人，他們是創造者，是設計師，藝術家會因爲他們做的事情受到讚美，我並沒有因爲我所做的事情而受到稱讚，不過我的確喜歡創作東西，我喜歡畫畫，喜歡創作，也喜歡設計。

Todd: So what kind of things do you like to paint?

託德：你喜歡畫什麼？

Shona: OK, well the kind of paintings I do are like based on like three things I've noticed over this time that I've been doing it. There're based on color. Color is like so important to me. I like really bright colors. I like colors that kind of clash together that might not go. Also, I like shapes. Shape is like the most important thing to me. I like the shapes of sea horses, of butterflies, of like flowers, of natural things, of like the human form. Shape is like the biggest deal to me. I also like repetition in what I do, so I kind of repeat the same shape or like I'll repeat like part of a shape, like it will appear in many different parts of a painting that I'll do, so these are like the most important things, and they're kind of like, I suppose can end of a kind of bit sort of psychedelic or a bit crazy like, but like if you kind of look at them closely you'll see what they're made up of.

夏娜：就我一直在畫的東西來看，我的畫有三個基礎。我的畫首先很注意顏色。顏色對我來說特別重要。我喜歡鮮豔的顏色。我喜歡那種可能並不搭配的撞色。另外，我還喜歡形狀。對我來說形狀是最重要的。我喜歡海馬、花和自然事物的形狀和人形。對我來說形狀是最重要的。我還喜歡在作品中進行重複，我會重複使用同一個形狀，重複使用一個形狀，同一個形狀可能會出現在一幅作品的各個部分，所以這些對我來說很重要，這可能會產生迷幻效果或有點瘋狂，不過如果你近距離看我的作品，你會發現它們是由什麼組成的。

Todd: That's pretty interesting. So, do you like then, let's say, you know, architecture that uses patterns and things like that or do you just like painting as a medium on a piece of canvas.

託德：這太有意思了。那你是喜歡有圖形的建築還是喜歡在畫布上的畫？

Shona: Yeah, I like kind of all forms of art really. I like architecture. I like.. what I like to see is like where there's like an old building right next to a new one, like and you can see like maybe if the new one's slightly in front of the old one. You can see like the differences overlapping. I like things that overlap. It sounds a bit weird but.

夏娜：我喜歡所有的藝術形式。我喜歡建築。我喜歡看那種在新建築旁邊的舊建築，如果新建築的位置在舊建築的前面一點，那可以看到重疊的差異。我喜歡這種交疊。不過聽起來可能有些奇怪。

Todd: You like layers.

託德：你喜歡圖層。

Shona: Yeah, I like layers. Exactly. I like collages as well, although I don't do them myself. I find it too difficult to actually do them. I like appreciate a collage because I like the fact that it's built up. It's like layered. It's more interesting to look at.

夏娜：對，我喜歡圖層。我也喜歡拼貼畫，不過我自己沒有做。我覺得做拼貼畫太難了。我喜歡觀賞拉貼畫，因爲我喜歡那種組合起來的感覺。我喜歡層次感。看上去非常有趣。

Todd: One thing that I think is really amazing is that, cause I do the web stuff, I do the web design, and I'm a novice. Like yourself, I'm not really an artist but I'm always amazed how computers can't replicate the same colors of nature.

託德：我覺得最不可思議的一件事是……因爲我在做網站，我做網站設計，我是個新手。和你一樣，我也不是藝術家，不過我經常會對計算機不能複製出大自然的顏色感到驚訝。

Shona: Yeah, exactly.

夏娜：對，沒錯。

Todd: You'll see certain browns or purples or blues and you just can't get it on a computer.

託德：你可能會在自然中看到某種棕色、紫色或是藍色，可是你在電腦裏找不到這些顏色。

Shona: Exactly. I know. It's like, it's difficult, like, cause nature is like so much more beautiful than anything anyone can ever create, you know, so sometimes it's kind of frustrating, especially like if I'm just drawing like something in nature, like a scene. Like there's no way it's going to be as beautiful as what I can see with my own eyes in front of me, and it can be a bit frustrating sometimes, like the same with trying to find colors that match nature.

夏娜：沒錯，是這樣。其實這很難，因爲自然界比人們能創造出來的任何東西都要精彩，所以有時這很令人沮喪，尤其是在我想畫出自然界的風景的時候。因爲我沒有辦法將我眼睛看到的風景呈現出來，所以這會令我有些沮喪，就像你找不到和自然界相配的顏色一樣。

Todd: It's pretty hard, although it does seem that a really good artist on canvas can get pretty close with the colors.

託德：這是很難，不過優秀的藝術家可以創造出相似的顏色。

Shona: Yeah, they can get close. You have to be really good at you're mixing. You see that's one of the like skills involved with painting. You've got to be able to like mix paints really well.

夏娜：對，他們會創造出相似的顏色。這要很擅長調色纔可以。這是繪畫的其中一個技巧。你要能調色。

Todd: And can you mix paints really well?

託德：那你擅長調色嗎？

Shona: I'm getting there.

夏娜：我正在努力。

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重點講解：
1. be based on 以…爲基礎；
例句：Early musicwas based onsingle tunes,or melodies.
早期的樂曲是以單一的曲調或旋律爲基礎的。
2. be made up of 由…組成；
例句：The airis made up ofa mixture of gases.
空氣是由多種氣體組合而成的。
3. let's say 比如說；比方說；
例句：Another example, you want to be an artist,let's saya painter, but you can't seem to find time to lift a paintbrush.
再比如你想成爲藝術家，比方說畫家，但是你好像總是沒時間拿起畫筆。
4. build up （使）積聚；（使）逐漸增加；
例句：We have continued tobuild upour capabilities.
我們在持續不斷地加強我們的能力。
5. there's no way 沒有可能；
例句：There wasabsolutelyno waythat we were going to be able to retrieve it.
我們絕對不可能把它找回來。