One well-known street artist in New York City goes by the name of Swoon. She creates detailed paper cutouts of people that she observes around her. She places these life-size images on walls in different areas of New York. One of her artwork is of a little boy playing. The boy is turning his smiling face and seems to be running into the distance. The lines of Swoon's drawing give energy and movements to the picture. She placed the pictures of the boy next to other large graffiti images. It looks like the boy is running in-between the different pieces of artwork.
紐約市一位著名的街頭藝術家名叫斯沃恩(Swoon)。她為她周圍觀察到的人制作精細的剪紙,把這些真人大小的圖像貼在紐約不同地區的墻上。她的作品之一是一個正在玩耍的小男孩。這個男孩正扭轉著他的笑臉,似乎向遠處跑去。斯沃恩的繪畫線條賦予了畫面活力和動感。她把男孩的圖像放在其他大型涂鴉圖片旁邊,看起來像是這個男孩在不同的藝術品之間奔跑。
Swoon did not start her career making street art. She studied fine art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. But she soon lost interest in the traditional modes of making and exhibiting art and started taking her art into the streets.
斯沃恩的職業生涯并不是從街頭藝術開始的。她在紐約布魯克林的普拉特學院學習美術,但很快就對傳統的藝術創作和展覽方式失去了興趣,而開始把她的藝術帶到街頭。
Swoon enjoys the freedom of expression which street art permits. And people enjoy Swoon's strong and imaginative pictures as well. In fact, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City has bought several of her works.
斯沃恩享受街頭藝術所允許的自由表達,人們也喜歡斯沃恩強烈而富有想象力的照片。事實上,紐約市現代藝術博物館已經買下了她的幾件作品。
Many corners in Paris show the work of an artist known as Space Invader. The name came from a video game that was very popular in the1980s. This French artist uses small colorful squares of glass to make images of space creatures, and he places his creations on buildings all around Paris. He says that he is leaving a gift to the city with his art.
巴黎的許多角落都展示了一位被稱為太空入侵者(Space Invader)的藝術家的作品,這個名字來自一個在20世紀80年代非常流行的電子游戲。這位法國藝術家用五顏六色的小玻璃方塊來制作太空生物的圖像,他把他的作品放在巴黎周圍的建筑物上。他說,他要把他的藝術作為禮物送給這座城市。