山姆：他们是不是要节食啊？
Betty： Of course， I’m sure you haven’t seen a fat ballet dancer。
贝蒂：是啊，你没见过长得胖的芭蕾舞者吧。
Sam： Oh， no， that’s a really hard job。
山姆：呵呵，没见过，那还真是一个辛苦的职业。
Betty： Not really， for people who love to dance， they won’t feel hard。
贝蒂：那倒不一定，有的人就很喜欢舞蹈，他们就不会觉得辛苦了。
Sam： Ah， you’re right。
山姆：嗯，说得也对。
Modern Pictures
现代绘画
现代绘画是指自20世纪初诞生的，强调单纯化和平面化，追求画面的装饰性，摆脱了传统绘画的视觉规律和空间概念的绘画发展方向，和中国国画有着不小的区别，但艺术是相同的，让我们去看看吧。
Realize Modern Pictures
认识现代绘画
1现代艺术和绘画的起源
The roots of Modern art are based in the art works produced during the period around 1860s to the 1970s。 The term Modern Art denoted the style and approach to the art produced during that era。 The term Modern Art is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation。 Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art。 A tendency toward abstraction is characteristic of much modern art。 Today many of the artists who exhibit at Red Rag Bath Art Gallery carry on this modern art tradition。
Although modern sculpture and architecture are believed to have emerged at the end of the nineteenth century， the beginnings of modern painting took place before。 The birth of modern art is generally attributed as 1863， when édouard Manet exhibited his painting Le déjeuner sur l’herbe in the Salon des Refusés in Paris。 The pioneers of modern art were Romantics， Realists and Impressionists。 By the late 19th century， additional art movements which were to be influential in modern art had begun to emerge。 These included： post－Impressionism as well as Symbolism。
Influences upon these art movements were varied： from exposure to Eastern decorative arts， particularly Japanese printmaking， to the coloristic innovations of Turner and Delacroix， to a search for more realism in the depiction of common life， as found in the art work of painters such as Jean－Fran？ois Millet。 The advocates of realism stood against the idealism of the tradition－bound academic art that enjoyed public and official favor。
The most successful painters of the day worked either through commissions or through large public art exhibitions of their own work。 There were official， government－sponsored painters’ unions， while governments regularly held public exhibitions of new fine and decorative arts。
Artists of the Impressionist period believed that people do not see objects but only the light which they reflect。 They therefore argued that painters should paint in natural light rather than in studios and should capture the effects of light in their work。 Red Rag Bath Art Gallery artists who still follow this approach include： David Atkins， Jeremy Barlow， David Farren， John Kingsleyand Bruce Yardley。
2现代美术流派
Byzantine拜占庭式
Gothic哥特式
Baroque 巴洛克式
Rococo 洛可可式
Classicism古典主义，古典风格
Neoclassicism新古典主义
Romanticism浪漫主义
Realism现实主义
Symbolism象征主义
Impressionism 印象主义
Art Nouveau 新艺术主义
Expressionism 表现主义
Fauvism 野兽派
Abstract art 抽象派， 抽象主义
Cubism 立体派， 立体主义
Dadaism达达主义
Surrealism 超现实主义
Naturalism 自然主义
Existentialism 存在主义
Futurism 未来主义
现代绘画展示了人们对艺术的不同追求，它改变了人们对绘画的观赏角度，更讲究画面的装饰感，从简单的绘画中来表达深刻的涵义。也让更多的普通人来欣赏绘画，了解绘画。