节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-06-13
难易度:Low
关键字:thread, medium, wipe out, sculpture, textile, kinetic
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
So happy you've joined us today.
My name is Steve.
When you think of art, what comes to your mind?
Perhaps a painting hanging on a wall, a sculpture made from clay or stone.
Well, for this month's ART feature, we'll need to change our perspective a
little.
You see, yesterday we learned that art can be a woman's purse made from used
chopsticks.
It can be a picture painted on a human body, painted to look like a painting.
Today let's shift our perspective with a new form of art made with simple thread
and needles.
Let's open our magazines to the top of page 27 and read about Textile Art.
Unusual Art Forms.
Textile Art.
Debbie Smyth "draws" on walls - with thread and pins!
She strings the thread from pin to pin to make designs of places and things.
It takes several days to complete one of these "drawings." Part of the art is
just watching her install it!
Sand.
Sand can tell a story.
How? Ilana Yahov uses it as a medium in live performances.
She spreads sand over a surface and then draws in it with her fingers.
Music plays, and the audience watches as she creates a picture.
(Music).
Hello, friends.
Thank you so much for joining us right here in the studio.
My name is Kaylah.
And my name is Ryan.
And now we're back for day two in our ART article.
And we're not just talking about normal art today.
In fact, we're talking about the opposite.
We're talking about Unusual Art Forms.
Now we've talked about two different styles of art yesterday.
We talked about reusing chopsticks to create household items that are both
artistic and recycling.
And then using three-dimensional art to create two-dimensional art, which is the
opposite of what we usually do.
So now we're moving into another form of unusual arts.
OK. So next we are looking at a textile art.
Now first, let's talk about that word textile.
Yes. "Textile" is a kind of cloth that is made from... by hand or from a
machine.
Now it is made by putting together thread, which we'll learn about in just a
minute,
and you put it together to create a pattern to create a full piece of cloth.
OK. So here we're learning now about Debbie Smyth.
And she is using these... this thread, like Kaylah said, to draw on walls.
OK. So "thread" now is like a very thin fiber or a very thin string that you use
to create clothes or blankets or anything textile.
That's right. Any kind of sewing, you would use a piece of thread for.
So she puts pins and thread on the walls to draw on them.
OK. And she's using thread and pins.
And pins are long, like needles, that you... that are sharp, and they're used
for sewing.
That's right.
Now she strings the thread from pin to pin to make designs of places and things.
So she sticks the pin into the wall, because it has a sharp point,
and then wraps the thread around it and pulls the thread from pin to pin to
create these patterns.
Yeah. She's creating these patterns or these designs or these "shapes." That's
another word you can use.
And you can see these beautiful designs on page 26 of your Studio Classroom
magazine.
That would take several days to complete just one of these drawings.
Now they're not actual drawings in that we usually think of using a pencil.
We do know that she is creating the same kind of lines just with thread and
pins.
That's right.
That's why we see the word draw and "drawings" in quotations like that because
she's not actually using a pencil,
but she's actually creating this art on a wall.
It's very unusual, but very interesting.
Now part of the art is just watching her install it.
So part of enjoying this piece of art is watching how it's made.
That's right.
That word "install" there means to put something together or put a piece in
something else to make something.
Yeah. And to say "part of" means it's only a small piece.
You enjoy the art itself, but you can also enjoy the process of putting it
together.
That's right, so.
It's fun to see the finished art, but it's also fun to watch it be made.
Now watching art being made is another exciting thing to do.
And here we're learning about sand art.
And this is very fun to watch.
Sand can tell you a story. But how?
Well, sand doesn't tell you a story on the beach, but it can if it's in the
hands of the right artist.
OK. So Ilana Yahov uses it as a medium in live performances.
Now "medium" is a method or way of expressing something.
It's what she uses to show.
So you could use paint as a medium.
Here we use sand as a medium during a live performance.
That's right. It's a performance.
You can watch it.
You can see a picture of this on page 27 of your Studio Classroom magazine.
But I encourage you to find videos of this as well.
That's right. She spreads sand over a surface and then draws in it with her
fingers.
While she's doing this, music plays, and the audience watches as she creates a
picture.
Yeah. And it creates many different pictures; and it's a lot of fun to watch it
unfold.
In fact, we have a video of that right now.
And then we're going to visit the Chat Room.
(Music).
During my final year, I just can't wait to join a space, transforming things
from 2-D to 3-D.
And I was folding and inflating and casting things in resin.
And also, it's an... this was a technique I touched on and didn't really think
much of.
And it was when it came to crunch time when I had to put a show together.
I looked back to my sketchbook and I was... this was the technique I thought,
right, I could push it further, so I am.
I came to go quite big and it worked well.
And I've just come from there and developed it.
(Music).
(Music).
All right. Here you go, Terry, brand new strings.
Enjoy.
Say, Bryan, do you help people replace their guitar strings often?
Not really.
That was my neighbor Terry.
I help her string her guitar from time to time.
String her guitar?
You mean put strings on her guitar, right?
You're right.
String, in this sense, is a verb meaning to put strings on a guitar, violin or
any other instrument with strings on it.
What about a tennis racket?
Could you string a tennis racket?
Ha, ha. Well, personally I can't.
But yes, you can use this verb to describe putting strings on a racket.
And speaking of tennis rackets, my strings are really loose.
I should have a strung-out.
I think you mean to say have it re-strung.
To string something out could mean one of two things: to make it longer, or to
make it last longer.
Oh. That's a new one to me.
Can you give me some examples?
Sure.
You might string a cord out and stretch it as far as it will go.
That makes sense.
What about the other meaning?
We often use "string out" in the passive when we're talking about time.
For instance, you could talk about an argument being strung out for several
weeks.
So that means the people are causing the argument to last longer?
That's the idea.
Well, sorry for causing you to string out this English lesson.
No problem, Ken.
I liked our chat.