【口语话题】关于绘画 - 当说到梵高，我想到什么？

2019-06-28

当说到梵高，大家会想到什么 ?

生于荷兰，文森特梵高是从古至今最著名的艺术家之一。鲜艳夺目的向日葵，割掉耳朵的传说，还有现存作品在拍卖时价格上面的一串零;这些都不影响文森特先生在生前作为艺术圈业务水平和凄惨程度都数一数二的神经病患者。

Born in Netherlands, Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous artists of all time. His sunflowers are iconic, his cut-off ear legendary, and yet, during van Gogh’s lifetime, he was pretty much unknown and considered himself a failure.

Today van Gogh’s artworks sell for hundreds of millions of dollars and he’s a household name, but there are facts about his life and work that might still surprise you.

传奇而伟大

生于1653 逝于1890，活在世界上37年的伟大艺术家的一生，不是一幅画一夜星空能说尽的... ...

Originally, van Gogh planned to be a pastor in Belgium. It was only on being sacked from this job that he decided that his future lay in painting. Indeed, van Gogh didn’t start painting until he was 27 years old, and he never received any formal training.

Pastor 牧师

Be sacked from 被解雇

Not ... until ... 直到... 才...

本来想做牧师的梵高无情解雇的时候才决定未来以作画为生，在此之前从未接受任何专业训练，那一年，他27岁。

Van Gogh had varied inspirations, including Dutch genre painting and the realist paintings of Millet and his contemporaries, but he was particularly influenced by Japanese woodblock prints. In some cases he even made copies – albeit in his very expressive, idiosyncratic style.

梵高的灵感来源是多种多样的，其中有荷兰流派，现实主义画家让弗朗索瓦米勒和他的同时代艺术家们，但是期间他的重要印象之一是日本版画艺术，他的一些日式版画复制品(部分存于阿姆斯特丹梵高博物馆)展示了他独特的表现式的，怪癖的风格。

Varied 各种各样的 (别再说different了... )

Japanese Woodblock 日式版画

Realist 现实主义的

Contemporary 同代人

Albeit 尽管

Idiosyncratic 怪癖的

Despite only working for 10 years – from the age of 27 up until his early demise at 37 – van Gogh was incredibly prolific. He produced more than 900 paintings and many more drawings and sketches, which works out at nearly a new artworks every 36 hours.

Demise 终止

Prolific 多产的;富饶的

作为画家的十年，从27 到37，梵高实现了所有内容创作者的梦想，多产且灵感丰富，几乎是每36小时出品一幅画

Bromance

Van Gogh had several close relationships with other artists, including fellow painter Paul Gaugin. Van Gogh, Gaugin and Emile Bernard planned to form a close-knit artists' community in the south of France, where they intended to live and paint together. Instigated by van Gogh, the three artists exchanged self-portraits.

Bromance 不用翻译了吧

Close-knit 关系紧密的

self-portrait 自画像

才华横溢的梵高和数名艺术家(包括保罗高更)等保持着亲密且正直的友谊，他们在法国约定组建一个紧密的作画团体，在此期间，梵高提起彼此应该互换他的最爱——自画像

梵高画的高更，这很梵高