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In recent years, the artistic achievements of two 20th century pioneers have been brought to a global audience.
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The Picasso of Brazil.
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In 2018, a major new exhibition opened at New York's Museum of Modern Art, MoMA.
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The show brought together more than 100 works by a single Brazilian artist.
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Tarsila do Amarão.
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Although widely celebrated in her native country, the artist was relatively unknown outside Brazil.
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So who was Tarsila?
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Born in 1886 in a small town near Sao Paulo, Tarsila do Amarão is considered the mother of modern art in Brazil.
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She first developed a love for art after her parents sent her to study in Spain.
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She returned to Europe a few years later and settled in Paris.
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Several artists there, including Picasso, were beginning to experiment with new forms, less realistic and more abstract.
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The new approaches continued to influence Tarsila after she returned to Brazil.
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Approaches to art in Brazil at the time were relatively conservative.
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traditional European styles dominated, with works mainly featuring natural, religious or historical scenes in soft colours.
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Tarsila decided to take a different direction.
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I want to be the painter of my country, she wrote.
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Her images began to reflect
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Brazil's diverse identity, a mix of native, African and European peoples.
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She used strong, vivid colours to paint real -life scenes of the nation's farmers, countryside and wildlife.
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This had never been done before in Brazilian art.
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One of Tarsila's most famous works is Abaporo, 1928.
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The title combines two words from Tupi Guarani languages, meaning man who eats people.
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The painting has a playful, surreal quality, but its look and feel are distinctly Brazilian.
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The work and its title later inspired a Brazilian art movement called anthropophagia or cannibalism.
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Brazilian artists began to take in or digest styles from other cultures and mix them with local influences.
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The result was something uniquely Brazilian.
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Tarsila do Amaral died in Sao Paulo in 1973, age 86, after a career spanning six decades.
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But her artwork and legacy live on in her native Brazil.
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For Brazilians, her recognition is kind of off the charts, says James Rondeau, director of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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She is the Picasso of Brazil.
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Now, with the MoMA exhibition and other international shows, Tarsila's art is being appreciated by a new audience of admirers around the world.
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the secret photographer at first
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they seemed like ordinary photographs a couple holding hands a child
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standing by a dirty window a man daydreaming in a park
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the images were hidden in boxes for years unseen except by the woman who took them vivian mayor but
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when a collector bought some of the boxes at auction
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he soon realized their contents were remarkable mayor's street scenes might seem ordinary, but they were actually very special.
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Vivian Mayer was born in New York City in 1926, the daughter of French and Austrian immigrants.
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For most of her early life, she moved between
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New York and Europe.
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In 1956, she moved to Chicago, where she worked as a nanny and caregiver.
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In her free time, she walked the city streets, taking pictures and developing her photography skills.
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It was a hobby she would continue for the rest of her life.
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Mayer's black and white images mostly portray urban life, street scenes and regular people.
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Residents carry out everyday tasks, shopping, riding on buses, walking in a park.
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Often she took her pictures in secret.
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People are caught acting naturally, unaware that they are being photographed.
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Many of the photos reveal something personal and often deeply moving.
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They show us the beauty, humor, pain and mystery of normal life.
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In total, Mare took over 100 ,000 photographs, but she developed very few.
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Instead, she kept most of the negatives and a few prints in boxes in a rented storage space in Chicago.
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Toward the end of her life, she was unable to pay the rent to the storage company.
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So the boxes, with her work inside, were sold at auction.
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In 2007, John Maloof purchased the contents of one of the storage lockers.
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Realising the quality of the images, he added a selection of Mare's photographs to an image -sharing website.
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Thousands of people worldwide viewed the photos, and many went viral.
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Mare's photos began to appear in books and exhibitions.
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In 2015, a movie about her life, Finding Vivian Mare, was nominated for an Academy Award.
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It is not known why
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Mare kept her photo secret or how she might feel about her worldwide fame.
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She died in April 2009 in a nursing home in the Chicago suburbs.
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Much of Mare's life remains a mystery.
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But her talent as a visual storyteller, for so long hidden in darkness, has finally seen the light of day.

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “RE3 Unit 11B”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Brazilian, Brazil, Tarsila, image, boxes. Questo video contiene 63 frasi e 783 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 5:44. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 137 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 78% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
photograph sostantivo/ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæf/fotografia, foto
exhibition sostantivo/ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/mostra, esposizione
mystery sostantivo/ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/mistero, arcano
ordinary aggettivo/ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ordinario, ordinaria
auction sostantivo/ˈɔkʃən/asta
naturally avverbio/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/naturalmente
chart sostantivo/t͡ʃɑɹt/carta, carta nautica
everyday aggettivo/ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/quotidiano, giornaliero
photography sostantivo/fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/fotografia
deeply avverbio/ˈdi(ː)pli/in profondità, estremamente
reveal verbo/ɹɪˈviːl/rivelare, gettare la maschera
skill sostantivo/skɪl/abilità, capacità
nurse sostantivo/nɝs/infermiera, infermiere
reflect verbo/ɹɪˈflɛkt/riflettere
experiment sostantivo/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/esperimento

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
carry out verbo/ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/compiere, realizzare
take over verbousurpare

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fahave been brought · is considered · been done
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohave been brought · has finally seen
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosaman who eats · woman who took

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: exhibition /ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/, auction /ˈɔkʃən/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: exhibition /ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, photography /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hobby /ˈhɑ.bi/, humour /ˈhjuːmɚ/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: photograph /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæf/, chart /t͡ʃɑɹt/, nurse /nɝs/, reflect /ɹɪˈflɛkt/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: photograph /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæf/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, abstract /ˈæbˌstɹækt/, span /spæn/, admirer /ædˈmaɪ.ɹɚ/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come photograph, exhibition, mystery.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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