Bilingual Vocabulary Flashcards

noun · gòu tú

How the parts of an artwork are arranged.

畫面各部分的安排方式。

Lisbourne's composition puts the whale at the center of the community.

Lisbourne 的構圖把鯨魚放在社群的中心。

noun · tòu shì / shì jiǎo

The viewpoint an artwork is drawn from.

作品所採取的觀看角度。

Chinese scroll painting often uses a moving perspective.

中國卷軸畫常使用移動視角。

noun · shuǐ cǎi

Paint made with pigment and water, often light and see-through.

用顏料加水調成、通常透明輕薄的畫料。

Ken Lisbourne paints Arctic life in watercolor.

Ken Lisbourne 用水彩畫北極生活。

noun phrase · shuǐ mò

Painting with black ink thinned to many shades of gray.

用墨加水，畫出深淺不同的灰調。

黃永玉 moves between bold color and traditional ink wash.

黃永玉在濃烈色彩與傳統水墨之間往來。

noun · bǐ fǎ

The way an artist moves the brush — fast, slow, wet, dry.

畫家運筆的方式：快、慢、濕、乾。

You can feel the artist's breath in the brushwork.

從筆法中可以感受到畫家的呼吸。

noun phrase · liú bái

The empty space around and between shapes.

形體周圍與之間的空白。

留白 lets the painting breathe.

留白讓畫面呼吸。

noun · sè cǎi pèi zhì

The set of colors an artist chooses.

畫家選用的一組顏色。

A cool palette of blues suggests Arctic winter.

冷藍色調暗示北極的冬天。

noun · zhì gǎn

How a surface looks or feels — rough, smooth, furry.

表面的觸感或視覺感：粗糙、光滑、毛絨。

Short strokes give the parka its texture.

短筆觸讓皮衣有了質感。

noun · lún kuò

The outline that shows an object's edge.

顯示物體邊緣的線條。

Draw the contour of the mountain without lifting your pencil.

不提筆地畫出山的輪廓。

noun · xiàng zhēng

Using an image to stand for a bigger idea.

用圖像代表更大的意念。

The lotus is symbolism for purity in Chinese painting.

蓮花在中國繪畫中象徵清淨。

noun phrase · xù shì xìng yì shù

Art that tells a story or records an event.

講述故事或記錄事件的藝術。

A whale hunt scene is narrative art and history at once.

捕鯨場景既是敘事藝術，也是歷史。

noun · bǎn huà

Making art by carving a block and pressing it onto paper.

刻版後印在紙上的創作方式。

黃永玉 began as a woodblock printmaking artist.

黃永玉最初是木刻版畫家。

noun · méi cái

The material an artwork is made from.

作品所使用的材料。

Her chosen medium was baleen and ink.

她選用的媒材是鯨鬚與墨。

noun · wén yàng / mǔ tí

A pattern or image repeated through an artist's work.

在作品中反覆出現的圖案或意象。

The owl is a motif across many of his paintings.

貓頭鷹是他許多畫作中的母題。

noun · bǐ lì dà xiǎo

How big things are compared to each other.

事物彼此之間的大小關係。

Tiny figures beside a huge whale show scale.

巨鯨旁的小人形顯示了比例。

noun phrase · sù xiě

A quick sketch that captures movement, not detail.

捕捉動態而非細節的快速素描。

Two-minute gesture drawings warm up the hand.

兩分鐘的速寫可以暖手。

noun · píng xī

Talking carefully about what an artwork does and how.

仔細討論作品做了什麼、怎麼做到的。

In critique we describe first and judge last.

評析時先描述，最後才評價。

noun · lái lì

Where an artwork came from and who has cared for it.

作品的來源與流傳保管的歷程。

Provenance matters when objects were taken from communities.

當物件是從社群被帶走時，來歷格外重要。

noun phrase · wén huà guī fàn

Rules about which images and stories may be shared, and by whom.

關於哪些圖像故事可以分享、由誰分享的規範。

We follow cultural protocol before copying a ceremonial design.

臨摹儀式紋樣前，我們遵守文化規範。

noun (Chinese) · qì yùn

Spirit resonance — the life force felt in a painting.

畫中可感受到的生命氣息與韻律。

氣韻生動 is the first rule of Chinese painting.

氣韻生動是中國繪畫的第一法則。

noun (Chinese) · liú bái

Leaving space empty on purpose so the painting can breathe.

刻意留下的空白，讓畫面呼吸。

留白 is not blank; it is the part that listens.

留白不是空無，而是畫中聆聽的部分。

noun (Chinese) · xiě yì

Free, expressive brushwork that catches spirit over detail.

重神韻而不拘細節的自由筆法。

黃永玉's lotus is 寫意 — quick, alive, unrepeatable.

黃永玉的荷是寫意：快、活、不可複製。

noun (Chinese) · gōng bǐ

Fine, careful, detailed painting — the opposite of 寫意.

細膩精工的畫法，與寫意相對。

Try one bird in 工筆 and the same bird in 寫意.

同一隻鳥，用工筆畫一次，再用寫意畫一次。

noun (Chinese) · cūn fǎ

Texture strokes used to give rock and mountain their surface.

描繪山石表面質感的筆法。

皴法 is how ink makes stone feel rough.

皴法讓墨畫出來的石頭有粗糙感。

noun (Chinese) · yìn zhāng

The red seal that signs a Chinese painting.

在中國畫上落款的紅色印記。

The 印章 is a signature and a small red composition.

印章既是簽名，也是一小塊紅色的構圖。

noun · jiǎn yǐng

A dark outline shape against a lighter background.

在淺色背景前的深色輪廓。

Our aurora photos are silhouettes of the whole family.

我們的極光照片，是一家人的剪影。

noun phrase · shì jué jiāo diǎn

The spot the eye goes to first.

目光最先落下的地方。

In Lisbourne's whale hunt, the focal point is the shared work.

在 Lisbourne 的捕鯨畫中，焦點是眾人一同的勞動。

noun · bǐ lì

How sizes relate to each other in a picture.

畫面中各部分大小之間的關係。

Proportion tells you what a culture thinks is important.

比例透露出一個文化認為什麼重要。

noun · pīn tiē

Art made by layering separate materials together.

把不同材料層疊拼合而成的作品。

A collage of tundra and rice field is our own third eye.

苔原與稻田的拼貼，就是我們自己的第三隻眼。

noun · bì huà

A large painting made directly on a wall for everyone to see.

直接畫在牆上、供眾人觀看的大型畫作。

A mural belongs to a community, not to a collector.

壁畫屬於社群，而不屬於收藏家。