Art Around Us

Art Around Us, written by Cheryl Ryan.

《我们身边的艺术》，谢丽尔·瑞安 著

Introduction. Art is all around us, in many different forms. Different types of artists make different art. Some use paint, paper, glass, or clay. Others use stone, computers, or even plants. An artist can make almost anything into art.

引言 艺术就在我们身边，有着多种多样的形式 不同类型的艺术家创作不同的艺术 有些艺术家会用到颜料、纸张、玻璃或是黏土 还有些艺术家会用到石头、电脑，甚至植物 艺术家几乎能把任何东西变成艺术品

Painters. The most familiar kind of artist is a painter. Some painters paint objects or famous people. Most painters use a brush. Some painters splash, spray, or drip paint. Others paint with odd liquids, such as mud.

画家 我们最熟悉的一类艺术家就是画家 有些画家画物品，或是画名人 大多数画家都会用到画笔 有些画家会泼洒、喷射或是滴注颜料 还有些画家会用特殊的液体画画，比如泥浆

Painters paint on every type of surface. Some paint on dishes, windows, or furniture. Many painters create murals. Murals are large paintings painted onto a wall or the side of a building.

画家可以在各种材质的表面画画 有些画家在盘子、窗户或是家具上作画 很多画家会创作壁画 壁画就是画在墙壁或者建筑外墙上的大型画作

Sculptors. Some sculptors use sharp tools to carve shapes into wood, stone, ice, or wax. Others make soft sculptures. They weave fabrics, yarns, or strips of leather. Some sculptors cast shapes and statues in metal.

雕塑家 有些雕塑家会用锋利的工具，在木头、石头、冰或者蜡上雕刻造型 还有些雕塑家创作软雕塑 他们编织布料、纱线或是皮革条 有些雕塑家会用金属浇铸造型和雕像

To cast a metal sculpture, first, sculptors carve a clay model of the shape. Then they cover the clay shape with wet plaster, which dries and hardens, like the cast on a broken arm, into a mold. Then they pour hot liquid metal into the hard plaster mold. The liquid metal cools and hardens. Then sculptors remove the plaster mold from the sculpture. They can now polish their artwork.

浇铸金属雕塑时，雕塑家首先会用黏土刻出造型模型 接着他们给黏土模型裹上湿石膏，石膏干燥硬化后就变成了模具，就像给骨折胳膊打石膏一样 之后他们把滚烫的液态金属倒进变硬的石膏模具里 液态金属冷却后就会硬化 接着雕塑家把石膏模具从雕塑上去除 现在他们就可以打磨自己的艺术品了