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Transcription by CastingWords Emerging in the mid -19th century, the avant -garde received their name for their fighting spirit.
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Avant -garde is French for vanguard, a military term used to describe the front line of an army moving into battle.
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Artists were compared with these soldiers, as they were often a group force, challenging long -established concepts and ideas about art,
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and fighting an entrenched establishment.
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Artists such as Courbet, Gauguin and Kirchner were regarded with great hostility, because they pushed accepted boundaries.
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As these establishments denied the work public exposure, that avant -garde fought this censorship of their art.
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Works like this by Ernst Kirchner convey freedom, energy, feeling through their brushstrokes and vivid colours.
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This new approach marked Kirchner as an avant -garde artist, though in his German homeland the Nazis considered him a degenerate artist,
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an unsettling term with unsettling implications.
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Do you find this painting groundbreaking, challenging, worthy of censorship?
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Kirchner's expressionism might have challenged the prevailing styles and authority of the time, but reads very differently to a contemporary eye.
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Hannah Hooch was another German artist breaking new ground in the early 20th century.
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She was an early creator of photomontage art, collages of pasted photographs.
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We see a tribal mask, a baby's torso, an eye from a fashion magazine, an eclectic selection.
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The figure is mounted on little feet as if on display, representing treatment of women in Weimar Germany as inferior and infantile,
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yet put on a pedestal.
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The geometric background is almost a cage.
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Huich was a radical who blazed a trail for photocollage, but was also a pioneer for her gender.
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Avant -garde artists challenge and sometimes provoke us through satire.
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Many would argue that Picasso's work remains radical.
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In Bottling Glass on a Table, the bottle is a piece of newspaper on which stenciled letters spell
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Old Jar, short for Old Jamaica Rum.
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Writing the subject name on the canvas rather than carefully copying its physical form was revolutionary.
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If newspaper can become a bottle, then what is reality?
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Damien Hirst was a member of the YBAs, or Young British Artists, a more recent group that embodied the avant -garde spirit.
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Their work highlights the speed at which art moves from disrupting the status quo to becoming accepted into mainstream culture.
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Hearst's revolutionary Natural History series takes animal bodies and suspends them in formaldehyde.
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They appear alive and caught in movement.
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The work examines life's fragility and the inevitability of death and disintegration.
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The emotion of the work is heightened by how banal the animals are.
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If it were a tiger or a lion suspended at the point of death, the work would read completely differently.
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Like life, the avant -garde is fragile and fleeting, a moment that risks being overtaken almost as soon as it is experienced.
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Rather than see it as a tragedy, let's be excited by the thought that today's avant -garde may be familiar, conventional or even clichéd tomorrow.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “What is the Avant-Garde? Art Movements & Styles”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: avant, garde, artist, Kirchner. Questo video contiene 33 frasi e 494 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:21. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 147 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 69% 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:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| establishment sostantivo | /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/ | istituzione, stabilimento |
| radical sostantivo | /ˈɹædɪkəl/ | radice |
| differently avverbio | /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/ | differentemente, diversamente |
| revolutionary sostantivo | /ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/ | rivoluzionario, rivoluzionaria |
| censorship sostantivo | /ˈsɛnsɚʃɪp/ | censura |
| suspend verbo | /səsˈpɛnd/ | sospendere |
| argue verbo | /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ | discutere, dibattere |
| carefully avverbio | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | minuziosamente, accuratamente |
| establish verbo | /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/ | stabilire, confermare |
| compare verbo | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | paragonare |
| trail sostantivo | /tɹeɪl/ | strascico, traccia |
| exposure sostantivo | /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/ | esposizione |
| spell sostantivo | /spɛl/ | incantesimo, formula magica |
| regard sostantivo | /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/ | riguardo, considerazione |
| deny verbo | /dəˈnaɪ/ | negare |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, revolutionary /ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/, censorship /ˈsɛnsɚʃɪp/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, exposure /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, revolutionary /ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/, inferior /ɪnˈfɪɹ.i.ɚ/, hostility /hɑˈstɪlɪti/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: highlight /ˈhaɪˌlaɪt/, homeland /ˈhoʊmˌlænd/, hostility /hɑˈstɪlɪti/, formaldehyde /fɔː(ɹ)ˈmældɪhaɪd/, heighten /ˈhaɪ̯.tən/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, censorship /ˈsɛnsɚʃɪp/, suspend /səsˈpɛnd/, mount /maʊnt/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, radical /ˈɹædɪkəl/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, mask /mæsk/, photograph /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæf/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come establishment, radical, differently.
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.