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...
