abstract art:抽象派艺术

　　●A nonrepresentational style that emphasizes formal values over the representation of subject matter.

　　强调形式至上，忽视内容的一种非写实主义绘画风格。

　　★Kandinsky produced abstract art characterized by imagery that had a musicical quality.

　　康定斯基创作的抽象派作品有一种音乐美。

　　abstract expressionism:抽象表现派，抽象表现主义

　　●A nonrepresentational style that emphasizes emotion,strong color,and giving primacy to the art of painting.

　　把绘画本身作为目的，以表达情感和浓抹重涂为特点的非写实主义风格。

　　★Abstract expressionism was at its peak in the 1940s and 1950s.

　　20世纪四五十年代是抽象表现主义艺术发展的顶峰时期。

　　action painting:动作画派

　　●A term used to describe aggressive methods of applying paint.

　　指使画布产生强烈动作效果的绘画风格。

　　★Action painting often looks childish to the non-artist because of the techniques used to be apply paint,such as throwing it on the canvas.

　　在外行看来，动作画派的作品通常是幼稚的，这主要是因为画家采用的作画方法，比如将颜料泼洒在画布上。

　　acrylic:丙烯酸树脂漆

　　●A fast-drying sysnthetic pigment. 一种易干的合成颜料。

　　★Many artists like to use acrylic paint for technical illustrations because of its fast-drying nature.

　　因为丙烯酸树脂漆的易干性，很多艺术家喜欢用它制作工艺图案。

　　Avant-garde:先锋派

　　●Innovative art in advance of popular ideas and images,characterized by unorthodox and experimental methods.

　　不拘于现有的创作定式，勇于创作超前思维的艺术形式。

　　★The avant-garde home of the famous actress sold for millions.

　　那个名演员的先锋派住宅卖出了几百万美元的好价钱。

　　Baroque:巴洛克风格

　　●An emotional,dramatic style of the 16th-18th century,anticlassical in form and spirit.

　　流行于16至18世纪，以情感强烈，铺张浮华为特点的反古典主义的艺术风格。

　　★Statues and architecture from the Baroque hane a dark,muscular,looming quality about them.

　　巴洛克风格的雕塑和建筑雄伟、高大、格调阴暗。

　　Bauhaus:包豪斯建筑风格

　　●A design school that promoted functional and geometic elements in design.

　　指包豪斯造型学院倡导的强调实用和几何学要素的建筑风格。

　　★The Bauhaus school of design in Germany changed the way that the world thought about design.

　　德国包豪斯造型学院倡导的艺术改变了世人的既定设计思维模式。

　　Byzantine:拜占庭艺术风格的

　　●A term used to describe a style of art with strong religious content.

　　艺术风格突出强烈宗教色彩的。

　　★The Byzantine era extended from the 13th century and went into the 16th century and was characterized by art with religious influence.

　　拜占庭艺术始于13世纪，一直延续到16世纪，其主要特点是浓郁的宗教气息。

　　calligraphy:书法艺术

　　●Handwrititing or penmanship,esp.elegant or "beautiful" writing as a decorative art.

　　书写的艺术，特别是优雅漂亮可做装饰的笔迹。

　　★Calligraphy has practically become a lost art in today's computer society.

　　在今天的电脑时代，书法艺术差不多要消亡了。

　　collage:拼贴艺术

　　●A composition of fond objects,newspaper,and cloth over other material on a single surface.

　　把拣来的报纸、碎布等在画面上粘贴成画。

　　★We used to made computer collages when I was in college by first pasting various items together and then using a video camera to transmit the image onto a computer screen.

　　我们在大学时代曾经用电脑做拼贴画。其步骤是，首先，将各种材料粘在一起，然后用摄象机将图象传送到电脑上。

　　Dada:达达主义

　　●A style (1915--1925) with antirational approach and nihilistic,absurdist,and incongrous thems.

　　流行于1915--1925间的艺术流派。其特点是反理性的创作手段和虚无、荒诞、矛盾的主题。

　　★Dadasim asked "what is art?" and used humor and shock value as communicative elements.