实战口语情景对话 第725期:Art 艺术

Todd: Shona, do you consider yourself an artist?
托德：夏娜，你认为自己是艺术家吗？

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，我不会用这个词形容自己。我不喜欢人们用这个词形容我，因为我认为艺术家是以创造而闻名的人，他们是创造者，是设计师，艺术家会因为他们做的事情受到赞美，我并没有因为我所做的事情而受到称赞，不过我的确喜欢创作东西，我喜欢画画，喜欢创作，也喜欢设计。

Todd: So what kind of things do you like to paint?
托德：你喜欢画什么？

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：就我一直在画的东西来看，我的画有三个基础。我的画首先很注意颜色。颜色对我来说特别重要。我喜欢鲜艳的颜色。我喜欢那种可能并不搭配的撞色。另外，我还喜欢形状。对我来说形状是最重要的。我喜欢海马、花和自然事物的形状和人形。对我来说形状是最重要的。我还喜欢在作品中进行重复，我会重复使用同一个形状，重复使用一个形状，同一个形状可能会出现在一幅作品的各个部分，所以这些对我来说很重要，这可能会产生迷幻效果或有点疯狂，不过如果你近距离看我的作品，你会发现它们是由什么组成的。

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.
托德：这太有意思了。那你是喜欢有图形的建筑还是喜欢在画布上的画？

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：我喜欢所有的艺术形式。我喜欢建筑。我喜欢看那种在新建筑旁边的旧建筑，如果新建筑的位置在旧建筑的前面一点，那可以看到重叠的差异。我喜欢这种交叠。不过听起来可能有些奇怪。

Todd: You like layers.
托德：你喜欢图层。

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：对，我喜欢图层。我也喜欢拼贴画，不过我自己没有做。我觉得做拼贴画太难了。我喜欢观赏拉贴画，因为我喜欢那种组合起来的感觉。我喜欢层次感。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.
托德：我觉得最不可思议的一件事是……因为我在做网站，我做网站设计，我是个新手。和你一样，我也不是艺术家，不过我经常会对计算机不能复制出大自然的颜色感到惊讶。

Shona: Yeah, exactly.
夏娜：对，没错。

Todd: You'll see certain browns or purples or blues and you just can't get it on a computer.
托德：你可能会在自然中看到某种棕色、紫色或是蓝色，可是你在电脑里找不到这些颜色。

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：没错，是这样。其实这很难，因为自然界比人们能创造出来的任何东西都要精彩，所以有时这很令人沮丧，尤其是在我想画出自然界的风景的时候。因为我没有办法将我眼睛看到的风景呈现出来，所以这会令我有些沮丧，就像你找不到和自然界相配的颜色一样。

Todd: It's pretty hard, although it does seem that a really good artist on canvas can get pretty close with the colors.
托德：这是很难，不过优秀的艺术家可以创造出相似的颜色。

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：对，他们会创造出相似的颜色。这要很擅长调色才可以。这是绘画的其中一个技巧。你要能调色。

Todd: And can you mix paints really well?
托德：那你擅长调色吗？

Shona: I'm getting there.
夏娜：我正在努力。