abstract art:抽象派艺术

●A nonrepresentational style that emphasizes formal values over the representation of subject matter.

强调形式至上，忽视内容的一种非写实主义绘画风格。

★Kandinsky produced abstract art characterized by imagery that had a musicical quality.

康定斯基创作的抽象派作品有一种音乐美。

abstract expressionism:抽象表现派，抽象表现主义

●A nonrepresentational style that emphasizes emotion,strong color,and giving primacy to the art of painting.

把绘画本身作为目的，以表达情感和浓抹重涂为特点的非写实主义风格。

★Abstract expressionism was at its peak in the 1940s and 1950s.

20世纪四五十年代是抽象表现主义艺术发展的顶峰时期。

action painting:动作画派

●A term used to describe aggressive methods of applying paint.

指使画布产生强烈动作效果的绘画风格。

★Action painting often looks childish to the non-artist because of the techniques used to be apply paint,such as throwing it on the canvas.

在外行看来，动作画派的作品通常是幼稚的，这主要是因为画家采用的作画方法，比如将颜料泼洒在画布上。

acrylic:丙烯酸树脂漆

●A fast-drying sysnthetic pigment. 一种易干的合成颜料。

★Many artists like to use acrylic paint for technical illustrations because of its fast-drying nature.

因为丙烯酸树脂漆的易干性，很多艺术家喜欢用它制作工艺图案。

Avant-garde:先锋派

●Innovative art in advance of popular ideas and images,characterized by unorthodox and experimental methods.

不拘于现有的创作定式，勇于创作超前思维的艺术形式。

★The avant-garde home of the famous actress sold for millions.

那个名演员的先锋派住宅卖出了几百万美元的好价钱。

Baroque:巴洛克风格

●An emotional,dramatic style of the 16th-18th century,anticlassical in form and spirit.

流行于16至18世纪，以情感强烈，铺张浮华为特点的反古典主义的艺术风格。

★Statues and architecture from the Baroque hane a dark,muscular,looming quality about them.

巴洛克风格的雕塑和建筑雄伟、高大、格调阴暗。

Bauhaus:包豪斯建筑风格

●A design school that promoted functional and geometic elements in design.

指包豪斯造型学院倡导的强调实用和几何学要素的建筑风格。

★The Bauhaus school of design in Germany changed the way that the world thought about design.

德国包豪斯造型学院倡导的艺术改变了世人的既定设计思维模式。

Byzantine:拜占庭艺术风格的

●A term used to describe a style of art with strong religious content.

艺术风格突出强烈宗教色彩的。

★The Byzantine era extended from the 13th century and went into the 16th century and was characterized by art with religious influence.

拜占庭艺术始于13世纪，一直延续到16世纪，其主要特点是浓郁的宗教气息。

calligraphy:书法艺术

●Handwrititing or penmanship,esp.elegant or "beautiful" writing as a decorative art.

书写的艺术，特别是优雅漂亮可做装饰的笔迹。

★Calligraphy has practically become a lost art in today‘s computer society.

在今天的电脑时代，书法艺术差不多要消亡了。

collage:拼贴艺术

●A composition of fond objects,newspaper,and cloth over other material on a single surface.

把拣来的报纸、碎布等在画面上粘贴成画。

★We used to made computer collages when I was in college by first pasting various items together and then using a video camera to transmit the image onto a computer screen.

我们在大学时代曾经用电脑做拼贴画。其步骤是，首先，将各种材料粘在一起，然后用摄象机将图象传送到电脑上。

Dada:达达主义

●A style (1915--1925) with antirational approach and nihilistic,absurdist,and incongrous thems.

流行于1915--1925间的艺术流派。其特点是反理性的创作手段和虚无、荒诞、矛盾的主题。

★Dadasim asked "what is art?" and used humor and shock value as communicative elements. 　

         达达主义设问“什么是艺术？”并用幽默和让人震惊的色彩和手法作答。