Lesson 2 Into the World of Art
Discovering Norman Rockwell
Welcome everyone ____ the Norman Rockwell exhibition.
My name is ____ Clark, and I will be your guide today.
Rockwell is one of the ____ famous American press illustrators and painters of all time.
He produced hundreds of ____ for magazines.
The main themes of his ____ include everyday life, social issues, and his identity as an artist.
Today, we will take ____ look at the representative work of each theme.
I will help you understand the world of his art better. Come this ____
Doctor and the Doll
Many of Rockwell’s works about everyday ____ are quite tender.
An example is Doctor ____ the Doll, produced in 1929.
The ____ girl, who seems to be about four or five years old, is facing the old man while holding up a doll.
The man is wearing a black suit, and there is a doctor’s ____ under the chair.
The girl has already put ____ doll’s dress under her arm because she wants to get her doll examined by the doctor.
The doctor is ____ along with her wish and is pretending to listen to the doll’s heart.
He is treating ____ and her doll carefully.
Doesn’t the look on her face look like a worried mother ____ the hospital?
Do you think the girl really thinks the doll is sick ____ she is just playing hospital with the doctor?
This work helps us appreciate the innocence of ____
The girl’s cuteness and the doctor’s ____ evoke a feeling of warmth, bringing tender smiles to viewers’ faces.
Let’s move on to the next one.
Rockwell also produced works about the social issues of the ____ he was living in.
____ take a look at this piece. This was painted in 1964.
Along the street walks a little African American girl wearing a pure white ____ and guarded by people wearing armbands.
A tomato, perhaps thrown at her, is smashed ____ the ground while juice stains the wall above.
The redness of ____ tomato easily captures the viewers’ attention.
The title of this work ____ The Problem We All Live With.
Can you guess what ____ issue the artist wanted to describe?
It is segregation and racism in the ____
This work was inspired by Ruby Bridges’ historic ____
Ruby was the first African American child to enter an elementary school for white children in ____ Orleans.
The U.S. Supreme Court had just ruled the segregation of public schools for white and African ____ students to be unconstitutional.
On her first day of school, she walked past an angry crowd protesting her enrollment at ____ school for white students.
____ historical background made this painting an important symbol of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.
The Connoisseur
____ look at The Connoisseur, created in 1962.
In the painting, an abstract art piece is hung on the ____ and a gentleman is looking at it.
The man is painted realistically in Rockwell’s typical style, but the abstract ____ piece shows splashes of paint in a variety of colors.
Don’t you think that the abstract art ____ quite different from Rockwell’s realistic works?
Let me explain why ____ painted it.
After World War II, art critics fascinated by abstract art devalued Rockwell’s realistic ____
In response, Rockwell decided to paint his ____ abstract painting.
He used the ____ technique, which was used by modernist artists at that time.
By combining these different styles in one art piece, Rockwell highlighted his identity as a painter ____ well as an illustrator.
In addition,
In addition, we can see the man ____ from the rear.
Do you think he likes or dislikes ____ abstract painting?
Rockwell left the interpretation of ____ gentleman’s reaction to us.
So, did you get an idea of what Norman Rockwell wanted to communicate through ____ paintings?
When we look ____ art, it is important to grasp the artists’ intentions behind it.
Still, it goes without ____ that it is also important to look at art from various angles and appreciate it in your own way.
I hope you enjoy ____ rest of the exhibition.
공통영어2 천재 조수경 2과 한줄 해석 Into the World of Art