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1、“综合英语”课程第四学期英语阅读训练 材料提供人：张少林Material 4-1Text AAs a contemporary artist, Jim Dine has often incorporated other peoples photography into his abstract works. But, the 68-year-old American didnt pick up a camera himself and start shooting until he moved to Berlin in 1995and once he did, he couldnt stop.
2、 The result is a voluminous collection of images, ranging from early-20th-century-style heliogravures (凹版照相) to modern-day digital printings, a selection of which are on exhibition at the Maison Europeenne de la Photographic in Paris. They are among his most prized achievements. I make photographs t
3、he way 1 make paintings, says Dine, but the difference is, in photography, its like lighting a fire every time. Though photography makes up a small slice of Dines vast oeuvre, the exhibit is a true retrospective of his career. Dine mostly photographs his own artwork or the subjects that he has portr
4、ayed in sculpture, painting and printsincluding Venus de Milo, ravens and owls, hearts and skulls. There are still pictures of well-used tools in his Connecticut workshop, delightful digital self-portraits and intimate portraits of his sleeping wife, the American photographer Diana Michener. Most re
5、vealing and novel are Dines shots of his poetry, scribbled in charcoal on walls like graffiti. To take in this show is to wander through Dines life: his childhood obsessions, his loves, his dreams. It is a poignant and powerful exhibit that rightly celebrates one of modern arts most intriguingand le
6、ast hypedtalents.When he arrived on the scene in the early 1960s, Dine was seen as a pioneer in the pop-art movement. But he didnt last long; once pop stagnated, Dine moved on. Pop art had to do with the exterior world, he says. He was more interested, he adds, in what was going on inside me. He exp
7、lored his own personality, and from there developed themes. His love for handcrafting grew into a series of artworks incorporating hammers and saws. His obsession with owls and ravens came from a dream he once had. His childhood toy Pinocchio, worn and chipped, appears in some self-portraits as a re
8、d and yellow blur flying through the air.Dine first dabbled in photography in the late 1970s, when Polaroid invited him to try out a new large format camera at its head-quarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He produced a series of colorful, out-of-focus self-portraits, and when he was done, he packe
9、d them away. A half dozen of these imagesin perfect conditionare on display in Paris for the first time. Though masterful, they feel flat when compared with his later pictures.Dine didnt shoot again until he went to Berlin in the mid-90s to teach. By then he was ready to embrace photography complete
10、ly. Michener was his guide. She opened my eyes to what was possible, he says. Her approach is so natural and classic. I listened. When it came time to print what he had photographed, Dine chose heliogravure, the old style of printing favored by Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Curtis and Paul Strand, which
11、gives photographs a warm tone and an almost hand-drawn looklike Dines etchings. He later tried out the traditional black-and-white silver-gelatin process, then digital photography and jet-ink printing, which he adores.“综合英语”课程第四学期英语阅读训练 材料提供人：张少林About the same time, Dine immersed himself into Jungia
12、n psychoanalysis. That, in conjunction with his new artistic tack, proved cathartic. The access photography gives you to your subconscious is so fantastic, he says. Ive learned how to bring these images out like a stream of consciousnesssomething thats not possible in the same way in drawing or pain
13、ting because technique always gets in your way. This is evident in the way he works, when Dine shoots, he leaves things alone.Eventually, Dine turned the camera on himself. His self-portraits are disturbingly personal; he opens himself physically and emotionally before the lens. He says such picture
14、s are an attempt to examine himself as well as record the march of time, what gravity does to the face in everybody. Im a very willing subject. Indeed, Dine sees photography as the surest path to self-discovery. “Ive always learned about myself in my art, he says. But photography expresses me. Its m
15、e. Me. The Paris exhibit makes that perfectly clear.1. According the Dine, the difference between painting and photography is that.A. the latter requires more insightB. the former needs more patienceC. the latter arouses great passions in himD. the former involves more indoor work2. The word oeuvre
16、in the second paragraph probably means .A. all the works of an artistB. all the efforts of an artistC. an artists great potential D. an artists great talent3. Which of the following photographs of Dines leaves the deepest impression on theauthor?A. Pictures of graffiti on walls.B. Photographs of his poetry.C. Shots of his well-used tools.D. Pictures of ravens and ow
