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