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下面就让小编来为大家介绍一下托福听力 TPO21 原文中 Lecture 4 的文本内容吧,大家要好好把握,这些都是非常有价值的材料,同时,大家也可以登录前程百利论坛 进行 TPO 练习辅导,希望能够给准备托福听力的同学带来帮助。 TPO21 Lecture 4 Art History(Alice Neel Professor:All right, so today we are moving on to Alice Neel, N-E-E-L. Um... Alice Neel painted portraits, she was born in Pennsylvania, and she lived from 1900 to 1984. And I guess you might say, she experienced difficulties as an artist. She was in her 70s, before she had her first major solo exhibition. Um, and this is due at least in part to eh... or... because of photography. After photography became regarded as an art form, portrait painting became less prestigious6, less respected as an art form. And, well, art photography kind of took its place, so you can imagine that a portrait artist, would have had a hard time finding acceptance.Eh, but the real reason I want to look at Neel, is that I really find her style ... eh, she had interesting ways of portraying people. She combined some elements of realism. What’s realism, Alison? Student:It’s like painting something exactly how it is, so an artist would try to make it as accurate, um... and objective as possible. Painting stuff just how it appears on the surface. Professor:Ok, good. So Neel combined realism with, well, actually, with expressionism. And that is? We, we just covered this. Student:Um... It’s into emotion, like artists are trying to, well, express themselves through the painting, right? Professor:Yep. The artist is depicting subjective emotions, showing the inner reality as interpreted by the artist rather than the outward form. So the image itself might be distorted or exaggerated in some way. The expression overrides7 objective representation. Ok, so, Alice Neel combined these two styles ... Yes? Student:Em... How is that even possible? How can your portray something exactly as it is and at the same time distort it with emotions? I don’t get it. Professor:All right, good question. It is actually a good lead-in8 to some of the techniques that