Paintings on the Streets of London 倫敦街頭油畫
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The script of this programme 本節目臺詞
Sun Chen: Hello, 歡迎收聽BBC的都市掠影節目, 我是孫晨。
Helen: Hi, I’m Helen. This is the programme where we keep you informed of what’s going on around London.
Sun Chen: 說到倫敦，這里最富有的就應該是美術館，和博物館了。這其中，最著名的就有國家美術館，在這里你可以飽覽眾多名作和對這些名作的介紹。
Helen: Well, now we are finding these art works turning up in the most unusual places in London.
Sun Chen: 這回，這些美術作品走出了層層保護他們的美術館，來到了倫敦街頭的墻上。
So what’s happening exactly?
Helen: Well if you wander round Soho and Covent Garden in London over the next twelve weeks, don’t be surprised if you come across one or more of 44 life-size paintings.
Sun Chen: Soho 和 Covent Garden 是倫敦市中心的兩個著名的地方。這兩個地方最多的就是小商店和旅游景點。在這里，你可以看到44幅真實大小的life size 的美術作品。
Would you like to see art on the streets of your town?
Helen: That’s right. The life-size classic paintings are attached to the walls of alleyways and shopping arcades by the National Gallery.
Sun Chen: 那到底這些作品都表現的是些什么呢？
Helen: We joined the organiser of this event, National Gallery’s director Charles Saumarez-Smith.
What we’re doing is putting up pretty high quality reproductions. It’s a way of bring works of art or versions of them, reproductions from the walls of National Galleries out into the streets.
Charles Saumarez-Smith, Director of the National Gallery
Sun Chen: Charles 跟我們介紹說，這些我們在大街上見到的作品，都是制作水平極高的名作復制品。
Helen: Reproductions, they are copies of the original paintings from the walls of National Gallery.
Sun Chen: 那這個項目的用意有是什么呢? Charles explains.
And what I’ve discovered during my five years as director that there are many people who are inhibited about coming into the National Gallery and shouldn’t be. The works of art are there, it’s free to go in, anybody can go in and people don’t necessarily know that, so bringing them out onto the streets is a way of vindicating that.
Charles Saumarez-Smith, Director of the National Gallery
Sun Chen: Charles 說，在他作為美術館的主任的時候，他注意到人們對到美術館看油畫感到很壓抑。
Helen: A lot of people feel inhibited, the word inhibited means not feeling comfortable about something, holding themselves back, may be even feel embarrassed about themselves.
Sun Chen: 作為國家美術館，他們希望改變人們害怕去美術館習的態度。發起的這個項目，為的就是要改變人們對美術館的這種誤解。
Helen: The National Gallery is full of treasures, and more importantly it’s free to go in.
Sun Chen: 你還用不著花錢，都是免費的.
Helen: Not everyone knows that, and Charles hopes that by bringing the paintings out onto the streets, people will be interested in seeing the real version in the gallery.
Sun Chen: 這次在大街上展出的作品，包括康斯特布爾的干草車，波堤切利的維納斯和火星，還有就是凡高的向日葵了。
Helen: A really impressive collection and sizeable pictures.
Sun Chen: 不過我看完這些在大街上展出的油畫之后，我有這么一個想法，要是就這么在倫敦的大街上展出這些作品的話，這些油畫能堅持多久呢？
Helen: That’s a very good question, especially in Soho, there’re quite a lot of pubs around and you can never guess what people might do when they’ve had a few pints.
Waterproof, but it will be very interesting to see how people treat it. Are they been treated as proper works of art, or graffiti, I don’t know. The whole point is the meeting without walls.
Charles Saumarez-Smith, Director of the National Gallery
Sun Chen: 這么說，就連Charles心里也沒底，要是這些作品在大街上放上幾個星期之后，會變成什么樣。他也不知道來往的人們會怎么對待這些油畫。
Helen: At least we know that the paintings are supposed to be waterproof.
Sun Chen: 就是防雨的，這倒是挺管用的。不過會不會有人在上面亂畫，就是另外一回事兒了。
Helen: Well that’s it about the reproduction paintings on the streets of London. If you want to learn more, please visit our website www.bbcchina.com.cn
Sun Chen: See you next time.
Helen: Bye.
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