PBS高端访谈:创作与蜡笔有关的艺术作品

JUDY WOODRUFF: Ohio artist Christian¹ Faur is making his mark with art supplies normally used by children. Jackie Shafer of WOSU in Columbus reports for our Canvas art series.

CHRISTIAN FAUR, Artist: So, I have always done art when I was little, but I have also always been really interested in science and math. I usually come up with ideas that are somewhat masochistic, whether it's like sewing human hair onto an umbrella, or just doing something that's ridiculously, like, labor-intensive, sticking shredded² paper back together to form an image, or stacking 20,000 crayons. One Christmas, I had been repackaging the crayons for my daughter. And it just kind of clicked in my head that these were the perfect shape. I came up with an idea that maybe I could use a mosaic³ to see if I can get some photorealism out of it. And from that point on, I have been creating these crayon pieces. Initially⁴, I did look into using Crayola crayons for my first piece. And I find that they only made 128 different colors, for the most part. They were expensive. I can buy them.

They're $1 apiece. A material that they're made out of was Paraffin wax. So it's a wax that is not going to hold up over time. And then, finally, nobody buys light crayons. So, when you bought a box of them, everything was dark. Every color is important. So I had to make to make crayons. After working on the computer, I will finally get what I call an indexed photograph, which is a photograph that has a certain number of swatches or colors. And those swatches or colors is what I will use to cast the batches⁵ of crayons. Then it's just a matter of assembling based on the map that I create. And then, when it's assembled, I'm able to then flip⁶ it around. And at that time, it's usually a little bit of work to fix certain elements, even though everything is usually, looks photorealistically correct, there are like elements that you sometimes need to enhance. So I will pull crayons in and out until it looks or feels right. Even though, when you see the pieces in the end, they feel like you're seeing, you're seeing something that feels very photorealistic, the closer you get to it, you realize there's just not that much information. Your brain is actually filling in all that information for the work. I have been working with the crayons for maybe even more than a decade now. As long as I'm able to create and have fun as an artist, I think I will be good. I don't see myself running out of ideas anytime soon.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Fascinating. Artist Christian Faur.

朱迪·伍德拉夫：俄亥俄州艺术家克里斯汀·福尔将分享自己对儿童艺术用品的一些想法。下面请听我台驻哥伦布市WOSO站的记者杰基·谢弗发回的帆布系列艺术集锦。

克里斯汀·福尔，艺术家：我从小就接触艺术，但我一直也对自然科学和数学感兴趣。我想出来的点子经常让我自讨苦吃，比如将人类的头发缝制到雨伞上这种荒谬的事儿， 比如，费力不讨好地把碎纸片拼凑在一起形成图案，或者将2万只蜡笔堆叠在一起。有一年的圣诞节，我又为女儿重新堆叠了一遍这些蜡笔。然后我突然想到这些形状都很完美。我就想到一个点子：或许我可以通过马赛克来看看是否能从中得到一些照相现实主义。从那时起，我就一直在创作与蜡笔有关的作品。一开始，我的第一部作品确实用到了绘儿乐的元素。然后我发现，大多数绘儿乐只有128种不同的颜色。

而且绘儿乐很贵，一个就要1美元。其材料是从固体石腊制成的。这种蜡持久性步枪。时间长了，就没人买这种蜡笔了。所以买了一盒的话，就会很悲伤了。每一种颜色都很重要，所以我要自制蜡笔。借助计算机，我可以得到索引照片，这种照片里有一定数量的色板或者颜色。我会用这些色板或者颜色来制作不同的蜡笔。接下来就是根据我绘制的图谱来进行编排的问题了。编排之后，就能开始使用了。这时候只需要化肥一点时间来固定特定的元素，虽然这一切看起来都如此真实，但还是有一些元素需要加强。我会不断的调和蜡笔，直到颜色看起来合适。不过，最后看到作品的时候，会感觉很逼真。而且离得越近，越会觉得很简约。在创造作品的时候，脑海中会不断涌现这些色彩。我跟蜡笔打交道已经有10多年了。只要我能继续以艺术家的身份进行创作并从中得到乐趣，我就很开心。我觉得我的灵感一时半会还不会枯竭。

朱迪·伍德拉夫：感谢艺术家克里斯汀·福尔带来的分享。

1 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

2 shredded   

shred的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• Serve the fish on a bed of shredded lettuce. 先铺一层碎生菜叶，再把鱼放上，就可以上桌了。
• I think Mapo beancurd and shredded meat in chilli sauce are quite special. 我觉得麻婆豆腐和鱼香肉丝味道不错。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 mosaic   

n./adj.镶嵌细工的，镶嵌工艺品的，嵌花式的

参考例句：

• The sky this morning is a mosaic of blue and white.今天早上的天空是幅蓝白相间的画面。
• The image mosaic is a troublesome work.图象镶嵌是个麻烦的工作。

4 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

5 batches   

一批( batch的名词复数 )； 一炉； （食物、药物等的）一批生产的量； 成批作业

参考例句：

• The prisoners were led out in batches and shot. 这些囚犯被分批带出去枪毙了。
• The stainless drum may be used to make larger batches. 不锈钢转数设备可用来加工批量大的料。

6 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。