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Yue Minjun’s Grins of Despair 岳敏君的笑脸

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On the walls of the Queen Museum of Art hangs a modern masterpiece. The painting depicts a group of men with identical pink faces and devil horns ___1___ out of their heads. Side by side, they ___2___ from ear to ear. However, a closer glance reveals something more. A ___3___ of sorrow and pain also lies hidden within their smiles. The faces in the painting are the face of the ___4___ himself: contemporary Chinese artist Yue Minjun.

皇后美术馆的墙上挂着一幅现代杰作，描绘一群有粉红色脸孔的人，头上长着恶魔的角，肩并肩开怀大笑。然而再看仔细点，该画却透露出更多讯息。他们的笑同时隐藏一丝悲伤和痛苦。画中的脸其实就是创作者中国当代画家岳敏君的脸。

Yue ___5___ from humble beginnings to become one of China’s most famous modern artists. As a young man, he worked in the oil fields in Northern China. It wasn’t ___6___ his early twenties that he enrolled in college to study oil painting. One day he saw a painting by artist Geng Jianyi and was ___7___ by it. The painting’s smiling face depicted a deep sadness that inspired Yue.

岳敏君出身寒微，后来却成为中国最知名的当代画家之一。他年轻时曾在中国北部的油田工作，廿岁出头才上大学学油画。有一天他看见画家耿建翌的一幅画作，便让它给迷住了。画中带着微笑却透露极度哀伤的脸，启发了岳敏君。

Yue soon developed a unique style, and his ___8___ exploded in both the East and West. The grinning pink characters in his paintings are insincere; their smiles are desperate and violent. They seem to express a ___9___ anxiety that some theorize is caused by a recent spiritual vacuum in a commercialized China. They could also be ___10__ patriotic communist posters. According to Yue, though, “That laugh ….. anybody who’s gone through Chinese recent experience would understand it.”

岳敏君很快便发展出独特的画风，随后便在东西方走红。其画作中开怀大笑的粉红色人物并不真诚；他们的笑容绝望而狂暴，似乎传达一种潜伏的焦虑，据某些人推论，这是近年来中国商业化造成的心灵空虚所致。他们也可能是在嘲弄共产党的爱国海报。然而根据岳敏君所言：「那种笑……任何经历过中国最近发展的人都能理解。」

−by Jamie Blackler

Vocabulary

单词发音

depict [dɪˋpɪkt] v. 描寫﹐描述﹐描繪

identical [aɪˋdɛntɪk!] adj. 完全相同的

contemporary [kənˋtɛmpə͵rɛrɪ] adj. 當代的

humble [ˋhʌmb!] adj.（身分，地位等）低下的，卑微的

desperate [ˋdɛspərɪt] adj. 絕望的

commercialize [kəˋmɝʃəl͵aɪz] v. 使商業化

patriotic [͵petrɪˋɑtɪk] adj. 愛國的

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单词发音

grin from ear to ear 咧着嘴笑 to smile a very wide, beaming smile

grin [grɪn] v. 露齒而笑

glance [glæns] n. 一瞥；掃視

enroll [ɪnˋrol] v. 參加；入學

insincere [͵ɪnsɪnˋsɪr] adj. 不誠實的；無誠意的

theorize [ˋθɪə͵raɪz] v. 推理

touch [tʌtʃ] n. 少許，一點[S][（+of）]

mock [mɑk] v. 嘲弄，嘲笑

Yue Minjun Backyard Garden

Geng Jianyi
Der zweite Zustand, 1987
4-teilige Gemäldefolge
Courtesy of Timezone 8 Editions, Peking

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