35 L4-Animals in Art

Oxford Read and Discover level 4 Animals In Art by Richard Northcott

Richard Northcott的《牛津阅读和发现》第4关动物艺术

Introduction Look at these two pictures of a hare. One is a photo, and the other is a painting. The photo is interesting, but in the painting the artist really helps us to look at the hare. We see its long claws, its fur, and its whiskers. What animals do we see in art? Where can we see animals in art? What are the oldest animal pictures? Discover! Now read and discover more about animals in art, all around the world!

请看这两张野兔的图片。 一幅是照片，另一幅是油画。 这张照片很有趣，但在这幅画中，艺术家真正帮助我们看兔子。 我们看到它的长爪子、皮毛和胡须。 我们在艺术中看到什么动物? 我们在哪里可以看到艺术中的动物? 最古老的动物图片是什么? 发现!现在阅读和发现更多关于动物的艺术，在世界各地!

Chapter 1 Animal Shapes Animals are different from people. Animals can't talk, but they can do many other things. Some animals can run faster than people. Most birds and insects can fly. Cats can climb trees better than people. Here are drawings of a cat and a dog by an artist called Leonardo da Vinci. He was born in Florence, now in Italy. He wanted to show an animal's shape when it does different things. The dog is sitting. The cat is washing. Their shapes are interesting because they are different from ours. This painting is by a Korean artist called Byeon Sang-byeok. It shows two cats. The cats are not friends. Maybe they are going to fight. The artist shows this in their shapes. He used gray and black inks for the cats, to show their fur. Their fur is nice and soft. Many artists draw pictures of animals because their shapes are interesting and beautiful. Discover! Sometimes when artists paint animals, they first do a fast drawing. Then, later, they look at their drawing and do their painting more slowly.

动物的形状动物不同于人。 动物不会说话，但它们能做许多其他的事情。 有些动物跑得比人快。 大多数鸟类和昆虫都会飞。 猫比人更会爬树。 这是画家列奥纳多·达·芬奇画的一只猫和一只狗。 他出生在佛罗伦萨，现在在意大利。 他想展示动物做不同动作时的形状。 狗正坐着。猫在洗衣服。 它们的形状很有趣，因为它们和我们的不同。 这幅画是韩国画家边相边画的。 画的是两只猫。猫不是朋友。 也许他们会打起来。 艺术家在他们的形状中表现了这一点。 他用灰色和黑色的墨水画猫，以显示它们的皮毛。 它们的毛又好又软。 许多艺术家画动物的画，因为它们的形状有趣而美丽。 发现!有时当艺术家画动物时，他们首先要快速地画。 然后，他们看着自己的画，画得更慢。

Chapter 2 The Oldest Animal Pictures A long time ago, people lived in caves. They had no paper. They painted animals on the walls of their caves. In a cave in Spain, there's an amazing painting of a bison. This painting is about 15,000 years old. Discover! A girl called Maria Sanz de Sautuola discovered the cave paintings at Altamira in 1879. She was only nine years old. She was in the caves with her father. There are beautiful paintings of giraffes and other animals in some caves in Libya. They are not as old as the cave paintings in Spain, but they are interesting because they show changes in our world. When people did these paintings, about 8,000 years ago, there were giraffes and trees in this part of Africa. Now it's a desert. In the Nazca Desert in Peru you can see amazing pictures of animals, but you have to be in a plane. About 2,000 years ago, people drew giant pictures on the ground. They drew monkeys, birds, and spiders. Some of these pictures are bigger than a playground!

第2章最古老的动物图画很久以前，人们住在洞穴里。 他们没有纸。他们在洞穴的墙上画动物。 在西班牙的一个洞穴里，有一幅令人惊叹的野牛画。 这幅画大约有15000年的历史。 发现!1879年，一个名叫玛丽亚·桑兹·德·索图奥拉的女孩在阿尔塔米拉发现了洞穴壁画。 她只有九岁。 她和她父亲在山洞里。 在利比亚的一些洞穴里有长颈鹿和其他动物的美丽画作。 它们不像西班牙的洞穴壁画那么古老，但它们很有趣，因为它们展示了我们世界的变化。 当人们在大约8000年前画这些画的时候，非洲的这个地区有长颈鹿和树木。 现在是一片沙漠。在秘鲁的纳斯卡沙漠，你可以看到令人惊叹的动物照片，但你必须坐在飞机上。 大约两千年前，人们在地面上画巨幅画。 他们画了猴子、鸟和蜘蛛。 有些照片比操场还大!

Chapter 3 Wild Animals When artists paint a wild animal, they sometimes show the animal in its home. For example, they paint the animal in the jungle or in the mountains. In this painting we see a stag, and we also see its home in the mountains. This painting is realistic. This means that the stag looks like a real stag— it's almost like a photo. The painting is by a British artist called Edwin Landseer. He painted it in 1851. In 1891, a French artist called Henri Rousseau painted a picture of a tiger. The painting is called Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!). The artist shows the tiger and its home in the jungle. Most of this painting is trees, other plants, and rain. We see a tiger, and we also see the tiger's world. The tiger is surprised because there's a storm. Do you think this is a realistic painting?

当艺术家画野生动物时，他们有时会把动物画在它的家里。 例如，他们画动物在丛林或在山上。 在这幅画中，我们看到了一只雄鹿，也看到了它在山里的家。 这幅画是写实的。 这意味着雄鹿看起来像真的雄鹿——几乎就像一张照片。 这幅画是英国艺术家埃德温·兰西尔(Edwin Landseer)画的。 他在1851年画了这幅画。1891年，一位名叫亨利·卢梭的法国艺术家画了一幅老虎的画。 这幅画的名字叫《热带风暴中的老虎》。 艺术家展示了老虎和它在丛林中的家。 这幅画的大部分是树木、其他植物和雨水。 我们看到了老虎，也看到了老虎的世界。 老虎很惊讶，因为有暴风雨。 你认为这是一幅写实画吗?