4 A New “Salon”

Chapter 4 A New "Salon" Year after year, Monet's paintings were still being rejected by the Salon. More often than not, his three friends—Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley—were also turned down. They all thought their pictures looked fresh and lively, even if critics said they looked "sketchy" and "unfinished." Monet thought that if they were ever going to make any money, they had to put on their own show. So in 1874, that's what they did. It started two weeks before the Salon show opened. Thirty artists took part. Each day only about one hundred people came to look at their pictures, while thousands flocked to the Salon.

第四章新的“沙龙”年复一年，莫奈的画仍然被沙龙拒之门外。 他的三个朋友——雷诺阿、毕沙罗和西斯莱——也常常遭到拒绝。 他们都认为他们的画看起来清新生动，即使评论家说他们看起来“粗糙”和“未完成”。 莫奈认为，如果他们想要赚钱，就必须举办自己的演出。 1874年，他们就是这么做的。 它开始于沙龙展开幕前两周。 共有30位艺术家参加。每天只有大约一百人来看他们的画，而成千上万的人涌向沙龙。

Visitors to the show made fun of it. Not many pictures were sold. People were puzzled by the dabs of bright paint on a canvas. They said each artist must have loaded a gun with paint and fired away at a canvas. They made the most jokes about Monet's paintings. A critic wrote that "Monsieur Monet... seems to have declared war on beauty."

参观展览的人取笑它。 没有多少画卖出去。 人们被画布上那些亮色的斑点弄糊涂了。 他们说每个画家都必须在枪里装上颜料，然后对着画布开枪。 他们拿莫奈的画开玩笑最多。 一位评论家写道：“莫奈先生…… 似乎已经向美宣战了。”

One of Monet's paintings was of two little boats with a red sun rising. The picture needed a title for the exhibit catalog. Monet decided to call it Impression: Sunrise. What made him choose this name? Monet and his friends often talked about the importance of catching the first impression of a scene in a painting. People made fun of the title. Soon all the painters in the show were being called "Impressionists." It was meant as an insult. But Monet and the other painters cheerfully agreed that they were indeed

莫奈的一幅画描绘的是两只小船和冉冉升起的红日。 这幅画需要一个展览目录的标题。 莫奈决定将其命名为《印象：日出》。 是什么让他选择了这个名字？ 莫奈和他的朋友们经常谈论捕捉画面第一印象的重要性。 人们嘲笑这个头衔。 不久，所有参加展览的画家都被称为“印象派画家”。 这是一种侮辱。 但莫奈和其他画家欣然同意，他们确实是

Impressionists. The Impressionists continued to hold their own show for several years. At the one in 1875, police had to keep people from destroying the canvases with canes and umbrellas. Only a few pictures were sold, and those brought very low prices. Monet once again was asking his friends for loans. Things looked really dark in the fall of 1876, when Camille became ill. Once again, a rich art collector came to Monet's rescue. This time a man named Ernest and his wife Alice bought lots of Impressionist paintings. They were part owners of a Paris department store and they had a large, beautiful home not far from Paris. Ernest asked Monet to come stay there and paint some panels in one of the rooms.

印象派画家。印象派画家继续举办了好几年自己的画展。 在1875年的画展上，警察不得不阻止人们用手杖和雨伞破坏油画。 只卖了几幅画，而且价格很低。 莫奈再一次向他的朋友们借钱。 1876年秋天，当卡米尔生病时，事情看起来真的很糟糕。 又一次，一位富有的艺术收藏家来救莫奈。 这一次，一个名叫欧内斯特的男人和他的妻子爱丽丝买了很多印象派的画。 他们是巴黎一家百货公司的共同所有者，他们在离巴黎不远的地方有一所又大又漂亮的房子。 欧内斯特请莫奈来住在那里，在其中一个房间里画一些镶板。

In 1876, Monet spent all summer working at Ernest's house. Camille and Jean joined him there for part of the time. They had good food, servants, and pleasant company. It must have been a wonderful rest for Camille, who was thin and sick.

1876年，莫奈整个夏天都在欧内斯特的家里工作。 卡米尔和琼和他一起住了一段时间。 他们有美味的食物、仆人和愉快的同伴。 对卡米尔来说，这一定是一次美妙的休息，她又瘦又病。

Once back in Paris, Monet became interested in painting train stations. He painted the crowds, the steam coming from the huge, black locomotives, and the sky through the glass roof of the station. One stationmaster liked to help out Monet. He would order the engineers to blow white smoke if that was what Monet wanted for a picture.

一回到巴黎，莫奈就对画火车站产生了兴趣。 他画了人群、巨大的黑色火车头冒出的蒸汽，以及透过车站的玻璃顶棚看到的天空。 一位站长喜欢帮助莫奈。 如果这是莫奈想要的画面，他会命令工程师吹出白烟。