meeting the most horrible, fascinating old bastard in
the club (www.guardian.co.uk).
Здесь критик отождествляет студию автора с его твор-
чеством a scary claustrophobic nightmare in pink and
purple, а возможность непосредственно увидеть картину –
с встречей с ужасным «ублюдком» the most horrible,
fascinating old bastard, высказываясь весьма экспрес-
сивно, вызывая, тем самым, отторжение читателя.
Также следует отметить, что критик может говорить об
искусстве в общих чертах и детально, подробно описывая
отдельно взятую работу. Приведем примеры:
20) The perfection of Raphael’s art, which once made
him the most revered painter of all, has done much to
harm his popularity in modern times. Today he is in the cu-
rious position of being at once indestructibly famous,
irremovably in the canon, and yet largely unloved.
People are trained now to dislike art like Raphael’s
without really looking at it: the very words that praise it –
harmonious, proportionate, and classical – condemn it
to oblivion in a world that despises those virtues.
Nothing is ever likely again to restore Raphael to the
status of a popular classic – but nor will the museums be
taking his works off the walls any time soon because he
is, like it or not, one of the supreme visual creators who
ever lived (www.guardian.co.uk).
21) Art becomes a spirited game of interpretation
in Ivan Seal’s small-scale oil paintings. The objects he
shows seem ordinary enough: you could be looking at the
handle of a chisel, left casually hanging off the edge of
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