节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-06-12
难易度:Low
关键字:out of the ordinary, household, opposite, stroke, disposable, 3-D, 2-D
Welcome back, everybody.
Speaking of chopsticks, can you guess who's making close to 10 million pairs of
chopsticks a day and sending them to places like China, Japan and Korea?
It's America's one and only chopstick factory.
Now I wonder if factory workers there realize their chopsticks are potential
pieces of art.
Let's see what artist Bryan Parks makes with his used chopsticks down on line
14.
Unusual Art Forms.
Then he made them into art that can also be a household item.
He sells purses, lamps and more, all made of chopsticks.
3-D to 2-D.
Many artists try to make their paintings as realistic and 3-D as possible.
Alexa Meade does the opposite.
She paints real live subjects and then takes their picture.
The colorful strokes make them look like painted figures, not real people.
In the photos they appear flat and 2-D, just like a painting.
(Music).
Well, today we're talking about unusual, unexpected art forms.
Now we started talking about a man named Bryan who saw that there were
chopsticks being wasted.
Because they're disposable, people just throw them away.
And that's not very good for the environment.
So he thought he would find a creative way to recycle them.
So Ryan, what did he start by doing?
OK. Well, Mr. Parks first went around to all of these restaurants and gathered
and collected all of the used chopsticks that he could find.
That's right.
And then he would clean them, thankfully, because you need to get rid of all the
germs and gross.
But then what does he do, like, how does he create this art?
OK. In order to create this art, then he made all those chopsticks that... into
that art that he could also be used as a household item.
So he would take the old chopsticks, clean them, create art with them.
But even more than that, his art serves a purpose as well because each piece of
art is a household item.
That's right.
And something that is "household," that means it's usually an object or a tool
that you would find in a house, something people use or have in their homes.
Now he sells purses, lamps and more, all made of chopsticks.
OK. So purses, those are the bags girls carry around; lamps are light in
people's homes.
These are all things that can be very beautiful.
They're art. But it also is useful.
That's right.
So he's taken something that was disposable and wasted and made it not only into
something artistic and beautiful but also something useful.
Ryan, I think that is a great example of recycling.
Yeah. This is actually really cool because recycling, you're supposed to use
something again that was thrown away.
And so he's using it not only for art, but he's letting other people use it as
well as purses, as lamps and more.
Absolutely.
So he definitely has an unusual form of art because I've never seen a purse made
of chopsticks before.
Neither have I.
But I'm sure it would look really cool.
That's right.
It would be interesting to carry; and you can carry with pride knowing that you
are recycling.
In fact, you can find a picture of a purse made of chopsticks on page 26 of your
magazine.
That's right. Now let's move on to the next form of unusual art.
OK. This one is called 3-D to 2-D.
First, let's talk about what this means.
"3-D" means something that has a shape, it has three dimensions.
That's what that letter "D" stands for.
And so that means it comes out and looks like it has a solid shape.
It looks real.
OK. So we should know that the "D" in both of these both stands for dimension.
So this has three dimensions, and then the other one has two dimensions.
Now two-dimensional is something that is... has a width and a height.
So you can think about a picture or maybe a... a piece of paper has a length and
a height to it.
It's a flat object.
Now three-dimensional, as you said, adds that third dimension of having depth,
so then is actually something you can hold.
It's a tangible... not just an image.
Right, exactly.
Something that is 3-D looks solid.
And something that is 2-D looks flat.
Now usually you go from two-dimensional to three-dimensional.
So this is a reverse.
Right. Like you said, many artists try to make their paintings as realistic and
"3-D" as possible.
That's right. Usually artists want their painting to look three-dimensional,
like real life.
But Alexa Meade does the opposite.
Oh, she does the opposite.
Now the word "opposite" there means to do something completely different than
something else.
For example, you could say that ice is the opposite of fire.
That's right. So it's completely different.
No is the opposite of yes.
Exactly. And so here Alexa Meade is doing the opposite.
She's not trying to create a flat painting that looks 3-D.
She's doing the opposite.
So how does she do that?
Well, she paints real live subjects and then takes their picture.
Hmm, OK.
So she actually takes real live subjects - that means what you are painting or
what you are taking a picture of - paints them and then takes a picture of them.
The colorful strokes made them look like painted figures, not real people.
So she has people stand there and she paints the actual person, and then takes a
picture of them standing there.
That's very interesting.
And so the reason it looks like it's 2-D is because of those colorful strokes.
And a "stroke" is a line that's made by a pen or a brush.
And that would be from her paintbrush, those strokes, those lines.
Now in the photo they appear flat and 2-D, just like a painting.
Oh. So finally when she gets that picture that she took,
that's when it all looks 2-D because they're all painted and it makes them look
like they're in a painting.
So from three-dimensional actual people to two-dimensional paintings, she goes
the opposite.
That is unusual art.
Well, join us tomorrow for some more unusual art.
For now, let's watch today's skit.
Consider art.
OK.
I am thinking about art.
Now what comes to mind?
Hmm... chopsticks.
Ha... chopsticks? No, no, no. I don't think so.
Well, art isn't always what you think.
It can take almost any form you can imagine!
Well, now that's true.
Art does come in all shapes and all sizes, but chopsticks?
Yes. Many, many disposable chopsticks are just thrown away every year.
Well, yeah.
There are a lot of wasted chopsticks, but...
So Bryan Parks decided to make people aware of recycling.
How did he make others aware?
He collected and cleaned used chopsticks and made them into art.
Whoa! What kind of art can you make with chopsticks?
He made household items like purses and lamps.
Well, that is a little out of the ordinary.
Alexa Meade also makes out of the ordinary art.
What strange thing does she do?
She turns 3-D into 2-D.
Wait... artists usually make their work realistic and as 3-D as possible.
But Alexa does just the opposite.
She paints real live subjects and then takes their picture.
Eh, so they appear flat and 2-D.
Exactly. The colorful strokes make them look like painted figures, not real
people.
Her work is unusual.
It's out of the ordinary.
Exactly! Art isn't always what you think it is.
Think about that!
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.
(Chinese).
And I guess we have to say goodbye now. I'll see you tomorrow.
Bye-bye.
Thank you, Michelle.
When 25-year-old Alexa Meade was asked if she was afraid of being labeled as the
artist who does the 3-D to 2-D paintings, Meade seemed unconcerned.
She responded by saying: I'm still young, and I have my whole career in front of
me.
There's a lot more that people will see from me.
Well, check out AlexaMeade.com for more examples of her unique style of art.
Friends, please return tomorrow when we continue with three more unusual art
forms.
Until then, I hope all of you have a great Tuesday.