07 Art-i-tude

Art-i-tude "Oops, we better not be late for class," said Chloe. They raced across campus to the art building. Judy followed Chloe down a long hall lined with colorful lockers. They passed a pottery class where people were spinning clay on wheels, a sculpture class where students were making buildings out of bubble wrap, and a... naked lady class! Judy squeezed her eyes shut. "Please tell me we are NOT going to Naked Lady Class." Chloe almost spit out her coffee. "It's Life Drawing. To be an artist, you have to learn to draw real life." "When I draw Real Life, it is NOT going to be

“哎呀，我们上课最好别迟到了，”克洛伊说。 他们穿过校园跑到艺术大楼。 朱迪跟着克洛伊穿过一条长长的走廊，走廊里摆满了五颜六色的储物柜。 他们经过了一个陶艺班，那里的人们在轮子上旋转粘土，一个雕塑班，学生们在用气泡纸制作建筑物，还有一个…… 裸女班！朱迪紧紧地闭上了眼睛。 “请告诉我，我们不是要去裸女课。” 克洛伊差点把咖啡吐出来。 “这是生活素描。要成为一名艺术家，你必须学会描绘真实的生活。” “当我画《真实生活》时，它不会是这样的

bare-naked," said Judy. In painting class, Judy got to sit next to Chloe in a dark room and watch a slide show of paintings. There were paintings of bones and giant sunflowers and swirly-twirly night skies. Even soup cans. There were paintings of cut- paper leaves and moons and paintings that looked like spilled cans of paint, even though the teacher (that everybody had to call professor) said it was a masterpiece. There were black-and-white paintings of birds that hurt your eyes if you stared at them too much. "These paintings are psycho!" Judy said, cracking herself up. Chloe put her finger to her lips. "In third grade, you're not allowed to talk when the teacher is talking either," Judy

光着身子，”朱迪说。在绘画课上，朱迪坐在克洛伊旁边，在一间黑暗的房间里观看绘画幻灯片。 画上有骨头、巨大的向日葵和旋转的夜空。 甚至是汤罐头。有些画是用剪纸画的叶子和月亮，有些画看起来像打翻的油漆罐，尽管老师（大家都得叫他教授）说这是一幅杰作。 有黑白相间的鸟画，如果你盯着它们看太久，会伤到眼睛。 “这些画太变态了！”朱迪说着笑了起来。 克洛伊把手指放在嘴唇上。 “在三年级，老师说话的时候你也不能说话，”朱迪说

whispered. "Same-same!" The teacher, Mr. Professor-Who-Likes-Psycho-Paintings, was yakking on forever about shadows in every picture. Shadows this and shadows that. Shadows here and shadows there. Shadows seemed to be very-way-important in art. When the slide show and the yakking were over, everybody got to make paintings of their own. (Finally!) Judy got to stand next to Chloe at a tall table and make a big giant mess. At college, it did not matter if paper scraps got all over the table. At college, it did not matter if paint dripped all

小声说。“相同!”老师，那位喜欢心理绘画的教授先生，一直在喋喋不休地谈论每幅画中的阴影。 阴影这个，阴影那个。 这里有阴影，那里有阴影。 阴影在艺术中似乎非常重要。 幻灯片放映和闲聊结束后，每个人都要画自己的画。 (终于!)朱迪站在克洛伊旁边的一张高桌子上，弄得一团糟。 在大学里，如果纸屑弄得到处都是也没关系。 在大学里，就算油漆掉了也没关系

over the floor. And at college, it did not matter how many supplies you used, even a whole entire bottle of sparkly-blue glitter glue. Chloe said worrying about rules was old skool. Chloe said art is life and life is messy, so art should be messy. At college, all that mattered was that you (1) use your imagination (which Judy had loads and loads of) and (2) be yourself. Who else would she, Judy Moody, be? Judy was so busy using her imagination and being herself that she made seven artworks in no time, including a monster Venus flytrap, a self-portrait cut into cubes, and a bad-mood painting that looked a little like the spilled-canof-paint-guy's masterpiece with a dollop of Judy Moody thrown in.

在地板上。在大学里，不管你用了多少东西，哪怕是一整瓶亮蓝色的胶水。 克洛伊说担心规矩已经过时了。 克洛伊说艺术就是生活，生活是混乱的，所以艺术也应该是混乱的。 在大学里，最重要的是：(1)发挥你的想象力（朱迪有很多很多），(2)做你自己。 她还能是谁，朱迪·穆迪？ 朱迪忙着发挥她的想象力，做她自己，她在短时间内完成了七件艺术品，包括一个巨大的维纳斯捕蝇草，一幅切成方块的自画像，还有一幅心情不好的画，看起来有点像那个洒了帆布的家伙的杰作，里面放了一团朱迪·穆迪的画。

Chloe was painting a bowl of cherries sitting on a chair. "Are you still working on the same painting?" Judy asked. "It takes a long time to paint a still life," said Chloe. "Yeah, but you might want to try finishing it while you are still in this life. It's only cherries." Judy turned her head sideways. "Or is it goldfish?" "Thanks a lot," said Chloe. "You should put some polka dots in the background," said Judy. "And it needs a cat or something." Chloe said she liked Judy's ideas, but Judy did not see her painting any polka dots. Or cats. Just the same old cherries-not-goldfish bowl.

克洛伊正坐在椅子上画一碗樱桃。 “你还在画同一幅画吗？”朱迪问。 “画一幅静物画要花很长时间，”克洛伊说。 “是的，但你可能想在你还活着的时候试着完成它。 只是樱桃而已。”朱迪歪着头。 “还是金鱼？”“非常感谢，”克洛伊说。 “你应该在背景上放一些圆点，”朱迪说。 “它还需要一只猫什么的。” 克洛伊说她喜欢朱迪的想法，但朱迪没有看到她画任何波点。 或猫。还是那个樱桃不是金鱼缸。