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新概念英语之现代艺术狂想曲

在新概念三Lesson 18中，作者参观现代艺术展时发出了由衷的感叹："These peculiar forms shock people emotionally!" 大家有没有参观过现代艺术馆呢？参观过的同学有没有被那些奇奇怪怪天马行空的艺术品雷得里焦外嫩呢？今天，我就来带大家了解几个世界上著名的现代艺术博物馆。这些博物馆不仅收藏了很多现代艺术的大师级珍品，其建筑本身也是不可多得的艺术品哦！

法国篷皮杜艺术中心

Centre Georges Pompidou (also known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The Centre is named after Georges Pompidou, the President of France who decided its creation.

蓬皮杜中心（Centre Georges Pompidou）全名为蓬皮杜国家艺术和文化中心（Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou），是一栋座落于法国首都巴黎第四区的复合建筑。在1969年时，法国总统乔治蓬皮杜（Georges Pompidou）倡议兴建一座现代艺术博物馆，后来这座中心就被命名为蓬皮杜中心来纪念他。

The Centre was built from 1972 to 1977.It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture known for its exposed skeleton of brightly colored tubes for mechanical systems.

蓬皮杜艺术中心建于1972年至1976年，是一座具有未来主义风格的建筑，整个建筑由纵横的彩色管道、硕大的玻璃墙体和错综的钢架构成。

The New York Times noted that the design of the Centre "turned the architecture world upside down" “The center revolutionized museums.”

《纽约时报》在报道中指出，蓬皮杜中心的设计“令建筑界天翻地覆”。“彻底变革了博物馆的建筑风格。”

纽约现代艺术博物馆

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world.It is located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

现代艺术博物馆是世界上最杰出的现代艺术博物馆之一。位于纽约市的曼哈顿，第53街（在第五和第六大道之间）。

Considered by many to have the best collection of modern Western masterpieces in the world, MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces in addition to approximately 22,000 films and 4 million film stills. You can find one of the familiar works in the collection houses: The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh.

在现代艺术的领域里，该馆拥有较多重要的收藏。目前已拥有馆藏个人作品超过15万件、2万多部电影以及4百万幅电影剧照。你可以在纽约现代艺术博物馆中发现很多熟悉的作品，如梵高的《星月夜》。

西班牙达利美术馆
The Dali Theatre and Museum is a museum of the artist Salvador Dali in his home town of Figueres, in Catalonia.

西班牙达利美术馆位于艺术家达利的家乡，加泰隆尼亚，菲格雷斯。

It houses the single largest and most diverse collection of works by Salvador Dali, the heart of which was from the artist's own collection. In addition to Dali paintings from all decades of his career, there are Dali sculptures, 3-dimensional collages, mechanical devices and other curiosities from Dali's imagination.

美术馆拥有达利最多样的艺术作品，馆内最大的收藏品—博物馆本身，就是达利本人的作品。 美术馆收藏了达利艺术生涯所有时期的作品：雕塑，3D抽象拼贴画，机械装置和其他所有来自达利丰富想象的珍品。