STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit two museums housed in one building in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian American Art Museum recently opened a show on the New Yor

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Distinctive Facial Features Mona: How is the portrait coming along? Leonardo: Im done with the sketches and Im ready to start on the painting. Mona: This commission is quite a godsend for a new artist. If you do a good job with this portrait, you may

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The answer to the riddle is one, Benny called back as he rounded the corner, racing for Shadowbox. And Buttercup has the number one on her bell! You think the answer to the riddle has something to do with Buttercup? Violet asked, running right behind

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The children worked on the old desk all morning. After a lunch of grilled cheese sandwiches and coleslaw, they took a break to play Frisbee and cool off in the pond. It wasnt long, though, before they were hard at work once more. When Benny stopped t

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丹尼尔在地铁站里碰到一个街头艺人,由此和爸爸谈起了俄罗斯的地铁站艺术,那么他们就艺术谈论了些什么呢? Listen Read Learn Dad: What's your little caper? Come home so late! We are all worried about you. Daniel: Oh, I am terribly sorry. But I was so capt

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图片1 paint v. 油漆,描绘 例句:I think we should paint the wall pink. 我想我们应该把墙漆成粉色。 painter n. 画家,油漆匠 例句:The painter stretched the canvas on a frame. 画家把油画布紧绷在画框上。 paint

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Pablo Picasso (18811973) is probably one of historys most famous names. He was a Spanish painter and sculptor and perhaps the most recognized figure in twentieth-century art. He is best known for starting the Cubist style. Among his most famous works

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One day Jimmy went down to the pond for a dip, but before he could dive in he spied his teacher, Mrs. Smith, emerging from nude bathing. When Mrs. Smith saw Jimmy, she grabbed the nearest object - whi

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Shirley: Yuri, I'm really enjoying checking out all your art, and I'd like to ask you some questions about this one in particular: Franklin's Fear. Can you tell me how you came up with the idea for this painting? Yuri: Right, this one came up with a

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SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Im Shirley Griffith. DOUG JOHNSON: And Im Doug Johnson with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about artist Edward Hopper. He painted normal objects and people in interesting and mysterious ways. (MUSIC) SHIRLEY

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GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And not too long ago, painter and sculptor Titus Kaphar was visiting the Natural History Museum in New York with his kids. TITUS KAPHAR: That's right - two kids, two boys. RAZ: And how old

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Pictures can be poems and vice versa, feelings captured in a phrase, a stroke or an image. Leonardo da Vinci said, painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. Lee Bennett H

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'The Face Of Britain' Tells A Nation's History Through Portraits play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0007:51repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash

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Unit 112 What do you think of my photo? What do you think of my photo? 你觉得我的照片怎么样? What do you think of my painting? 我觉得我的画怎么样? What do you think of my dress? 我的衣服,你认为怎么样? What do you

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Ndebele Artist Popularizes Traditional Technique 恩德贝勒艺术家推广传统技术 JOHANNESBURG Esther Mahlangu is almost 80 but she's still going strong. For decades, she has practiced the traditional art of her tribe, the Ndebele, located in

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十二、动词ing+名词的复数作主语结构这是一个比较难的结构,因为许多同学经常混淆动名词和现在分词。 现在分词相当于形容词,和后面的名词是修饰与

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What Would You Ask Her? 你会向她提什么问题? One question has intrigued art lovers around the world for generations: what is the secret behind the Mona Lisas enigmatic smile? Well now they have the chance to ask her directly, thanks to a new

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Not everything in Leonardos career ended in failure. Sometimes he actually finished a job. It is true that only ten completed paintings are known to be by Leonardo. Thats a tiny number. But each and every one is a treasure. The story is that in 1505

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Leonardo stayed at Verrocchios workshop a long timethirteen years. He became a master and a member of the guild. But he didnt move out to start a studio of his own. Perhaps Verrocchios studio felt like a home to Leonardo, a place where he belonged an

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Winston Churchill 温斯顿丘吉尔 Winston Churchill began his love affair with painting in his 40's, a mid disastrous circumstance. As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915, he was deeply involved in a campaign in the Dardanelles that could have sho

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