[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][12.27]

emteddybearUID: 2699606

clutter:凌乱
curiously：好奇的
buoyant：无忧无虑的
taste ：鉴赏力
sentimental：多愁善感的
porcelain：瓷器
top-ranking ：一流的
prolific ：多产的
fussy ：爱挑剔的
knickknack：小玩意

good things：
1.Behind them the sea, silvery, shimmering and full of light, has the same idyllic quality of water painted at the time by the Scottish Colourists
2.But there are no men in any of Knight’s pictures of this period, reminding viewers that war was close at hand.


my comments:
After finishing the artical is a commentary, it's mainly about the recently sale of the Sotheby’s , which was surprising busy. What's more, there are three art work are mentioned. I think it attempts to tell us that when contemporary art market seeks the "new", the old-fashion work is also the one of the dealers' best love.Actually, I don't know anything about art, either its economic benefits. I just know that rich people buy art works to keep their wealth.
At present, it's economic crisis. The reason of art works' fervency is quite clearly. People want to invest less and get high repayment. Maybe this theory is true, just like the  housing prices. At present, the housing price is so high that we can't afford it. But some rich people who really don't need so many houses are still puch up the price.
But art work is not entirely the same as house price . For our ordinarmost people, house is the necessity, while art work is not.

敛寒影UID: 2613052

Comment:

This article aims to tell us that in this contemporary world people searching for new novelty,the value of old-fashioned, cluttered and sentimental paintings are remain steadfastly or even more valuable.With the reflection of inflation,it is astute to collect anctic paintings that steadly quality exchanging more money in the future than before.Also a good opportunity for art dealer to earn more from the access selling the paintings twice from the first collector.The author applied the example of illustrious paintings as “Prince’s Dock, Hull” which John Atkinson Grimshaw painted, “The Old Dealer” which Spencelayh painted and “On the Cliffs” which Laura Knight painted bidding up as high as two or four times what the auction house had predicted.

This idea that the art spending would hold their value in the longer term appears in the passage we have read few days before.Like investing assets in the bussiness of real estate,paintings would be an luxurious item to keep the value in the inflation.In my oppinion,the reason is that the paintings bring us the aethetic enjoyment and raise the resonance of people on the issues.Besides,that record the history of an ancient year in the past and the feeling in the painting can not be repeat but taste after seeing it.The paintings brings more value of spritual that never be chaged in the long term,so the prices should be increased rather than degressive.

好词好句：

Its success lay in the high prices achieved for those that sold, half of which were bid up哄抬 beyond their high estimate.


His works are often dark social commentaries注释，解说词 featuring streets and portsides, full of ships’ rigging and lamplight that seems visually interchangeable with moonlight.



Behind them the sea, silvery, shimmering and full of light, has the same idyllic quality of water painted at the time by the Scottish Colourists.


if anything  如果没有什么区别的话

on behalf of  代表
a series of  一连串的

tequilawineUID: 2702008

novelty 新颖新奇性n  brass founder 黄铜铸工 prolific多产的 consign把。。。托付给人 代售  

1 They know that inflation has always been the art dealer’s friend.
2 Nearly 40% of the lots in Sotheby’s sale were bought in.什么意思？

The trend in art industry may last for while, as we see from the passage, the taste for clutter and realism. And author found some pattern from the trends in this industry, that is , they are happy to pay over the odds for top ranking pictures, but leave the rest untouched.This is just explain the upper one said"They know that inflation has always been the art dealer’s friend."

But what really impressed me in the passage is the painting the company sold intrigueing me to explore more about author and relevant things.
First, i have to admit that personnally i am more prone to be a surrealism arts, since i think it can give people more optimistic vision to dream.As the opposite way pretty in real focusing on giving us impressive boring world, no one can get rid of the inner spirit trying to convey the humanity in that period.

jinziqiUID: 2387034

New words
clutter 凌乱
novelty 新奇
sentimental 情感的
lot 拍卖品
porcelain 瓷器
rig 帆装（船桅和风范等的安装模式）
consign 托运
knickknack 小装饰物
shimmer 微微发亮
idyllic 完美无瑕

Good words
His work is, if anything, even more unfashionable-looking than Grimshaw’s. Spencelayh, who died in 1928, liked to paint fussy interiors.
on behalf of
said afterwards
Of the two auctions, Sotheby’s was by far more successful.

Good sentences
Prices today reflect what is happening out there. People are discounting the coming inflation and buying quality. They know that inflation has always been the art dealer’s friend.
Some pieces went for as much as four times what the auction house had predicted.

My comment
I am happy to say that I read this article in a few minutes which prove that my reading speed in English has been improved a lot since I began to read an article every day.When I was reading the passage, I ignored those complicated names, but I can know what the author talked about. It described some pictures and then stated some auctions being sold from one to another. Auctions have even become stock, which could make money, just like houses which people are eager to buy one, not only for live in, but also for selling it after years to make money.

qxn_1987UID: 2610437

The taste for clutter and realism is curiously buoyant

Mr Mason, who has seen recessions come and go in the 53 year he has been in the business, said afterwards: “Prices today reflect what is happening out there. People are discounting the coming inflation and buying quality. They know that inflation has always been the art dealer’s friend. ”（？）（“the dealer can gain the profit from the art market when inflation is happened”   ——C。的解释，赞~）

Its success lay in the high prices achieved for those that sold, half of which were bid up beyond their high estimate. Some pieces went for as much as four times what the auction house had predicted.

Consigning the picture to Sotheby’s, that same American saw his Grimshaw sell to an anonymous bidder for £397,250 (including commission and taxes), the third highest price achieved for the artist at auction.

Both are strong, calm figures. Behind them the sea, silvery, shimmering and full of light, has the same idyllic quality of water painted at the time by the Scottish Colourists. But there are no men in any of Knight’s pictures of this period, reminding viewers that war was close at hand.


Comments:

Art is the process or product of deliberatley arranging elements in a way that appeals to the sense of emotions. Nowadays, people have a tendency to place higher value on it, for it serves as an expression of emotions, feelings, and so on; what’s more, it had been defined “as a vehicle for the expression or communication of emotions and ideas.”

Nonetheless, some of them are bid up beyond their high estimate or true value. And, as the economy is recovering, the dealer are gaining huge profit from the art market. Are these pictures so valuable? I am confused. Admittedly, these pictures are rare, and have their great value, but they should not be over-estimated that don’t accord with their true value.

qisaimanUID: 2703629

buoyant  上涨的 有浮力的
clutter 喧闹 a crowded or confused mass or collection
cover lot
porcelain 瓷器的
prolific 多产的
velvet 天鹅绒
consigned 委托的
under bidder 出价人
idyllic 田园诗般的

summary
the article main deal with a rising interesting on the realism market , that seems
strange during the recession. but after a remark by the bidder, it is easy to understand why . then the article introduce several works by the impressionist , by who the pictures were produced and how it travled from one to another.

comments
it seems that during the recession the clutter and realism art market is blooming.
at the S auction, record prices for works by impressionist occured. just as the remarks by Mason revealed , prices on the art reflected an expectation of the inflation and the rich try to hold the value on invest on the art works those can endure long.
another phenomenon is a paticular interset of the collector on the top-ranking pictures, from which a hint can be readily achieved that  it is no more than another stock.

海王泪UID: 2673613

Further comment (when C and I are talking about the value of art.)

Why is art piece valuable?
As far as I concern, it has basic value and extra value.

First, art piece has aesthetic value as its basic value. Truly valuable art can provoke our emotion and people are willing to pay for appreciation. Art is signal, it stimulate our brain.
Reference: “How art made world.” (In this video you may learn why we need art.)
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/avTa5pTZsOM/

If you accept that people need art, what confused you must be the extra value determined by growing demand and limited supply. Maybe you doubt if the price of art is too high. But I think it is normally driven by the market force.

Supply of masterpiece is limited for the following two reasons: 1.Existent number is little; 2.Circulating number is small, when people tend to stock them rather than to frequently deal in them. In other words, a thing is valued in proportion to its rarity.

And demand is growing, because more people become richer and richer. Those richer develop greater interests in various luxuries and they certainly can afford art. There must be someone, psychologically, believes that a painting is worth a higher price, then he or she buy it. Such process keeps running. Thus "the art piece’s success in extra value lay in the high prices achieved for the last buyer".

Finally, although the price would fluctuate, the general trend is upward and stable. Hardly could people refuse to believe that art piece can serve as good investment. By comparison with the depreciation in money (inflation), people treat art piece as assets maintaing value. That's why Mr. Mason said in today's Eco:"...inflation has always been the art dealer’s friend." These speculators who hold expectation of future higher price come into being and make great contribution to the current art market.

splendidsunUID: 2723757

My comment:
It is hard to forecast the taste of people in art.  Nowadays, the realism seems more popular than other art styles. Comparing with the contemporary art, the pictures of realism remain the style of old-fashion, cluttered and sentimental. The buyers in all different sectors follow a pattern that would like to pay over the odd for top-ranking pictures. A dealer, Mr. Mason, indicated that the inflation of economy would be the art dealers’ friends, which means that the sale of art markets would prosperous during the inflation. The examples of Spencelayh’s picture “The old dealer” and Knight’s picture “on the cliffs” give us a picture that the buyers tend to bid up the price and pay for them in much higher prices than expected. In my viewpoint, the appearance of this aberrant phenomenon could attribute to the attitudes of people toward art. During the inflation, almost everything would lose its origin value. While people consider the art works are the most steady and valuable things that could keep the buyers’ wealth. As a result, the prices of art works are much higher than that were estimated before.

好句：
1. The taste for clutter and realism is curiously buoyant.
2. Its success lay in the high prices achieved for those that sold, half of which were bid up beyond their high estimate.
3. Consigning the picture to Sotheby’s, that same American saw his Grimshaw sell to an anonymous bidder for £397,250 (including commission and taxes), the third highest price achieved for the artist at auction.
4. The most sought after are realistic pictures of men, often gathered around a table in a room full of clutter, with glazed jugs, books, umbrellas and pieces of velvet jumbled together.
5. Behind them the sea, silvery, shimmering and full of light, has the same idyllic quality of water painted at the time by the Scottish Colourists.
bid up 抬高竞价
fetch=gain money
on behalf of 代表
underbidder 出较低价格的人
Chinese porcelain 中国瓷器

dingyi0311UID: 2627919

Good sentences
Behind them the sea, silvery, shimmering and full of light, has the same idyllic quality of water painted at the time by the Scottish Colourists. But there are no men in any of Knight’s pictures of this period, reminding viewers that war was close at hand.
His works are often dark social commentaries featuring streets and portsides, full of ships’ rigging and lamplight that seems visually interchangeable with moonlight



Unknown words
Commentary说明评注
Clutter 混乱
underbidder.出价过低
glazed jugs光滑水壶
sought after搜索追求

My comment
This report are telling us how is the art market is like lately. According to it, the market is still vigorous even in the recession. Many of the work were selled at prices that several times of the expectation, which is completely contrary to the assertion in another report (our second assignment)that the recession will bring the price of art works down. One reason is that a pile of great works are on the auction. The former report illustrated that cause of sliding price of arts works few days ago is different from that happened in 1898 when few people were buying pictures at that time,  the problem is lack of good works. after some good works show up now, the prices can still be stunning. On the other hand,  the price of arts is relatively lower  and thus it is a very good chance to invest in them since the price will increase as the economic recover in the future.

番茄斗斗UID: 2720914

好词-生词-表达

1.Buyers in every sector of the art market, from Chinese porcelain（瓷器） to Old Masters, now seem to follow a pattern.
2.They are happy to pay over the odds for top-ranking pictures
3.the picture that fetched the highest sum was “The Old Dealer”
4.underbidder低价提供者，knickknack小摆设


COMMENT:
Art comes from life and beyond life, as a result, it confuses the outsiders in certain ways. How to judge the value of it and by which way can you appreciate it keep us away. Without revelent knowledge, we are following the trend, objectlessly and unconditionally. Mostly, it shares the same signal with other goods, that is, money it has fetched.

As numerous cases were given from the article, i'm more likely shocked by the doubled or tripled price of a painting at acution. According to Mason, an active buyer, inflation enables the prosperity of the art market. In addition,he determines the art as quality ones, however, i see it in an irony way. Art today, is brewed by outsiders, who are more concerned about its value of potential price rather than of art itself. No wonder Vincent Van Gogh were getting famous long after his death.

sunflower_irisUID: 2720580

The article describes a phenomenon that the taste for clutter and realism is revalued. I interpret “clutter” as disarranged scene of real life, kind of naturalism. But I can’t figure it out at all point.

Besides, the title “Back to The Future” confuse me too. I think the author means that old-fashioned art will come to bloom again. But I disagree with the point of view that they are more valuable than other styles. You can make sure which style you like most rather than determine which one is most valuable.

Furthermore, just as it’s said in the report titled “Suspended Animation”, the dealers buy the art works not only because they like them but also because the works will hold their value for a long term and even increase in value. Some of the buyers buy the works for stock rather than collaction, just as Mr. Mason, what they care about is their asset but not the works’ own value. But it’s not ture that those dealers know little about art, maybe some of them do. While whether the dealers follow the fashion or whether the fashion follows the dealers is still a question, actually, most of the dealers understand art and have good taste on art works. If no, how could they make sure the works will hold their value to protect them from infloation?

sunflower_irisUID: 2720580

25# 番茄斗斗

Vincent Van Gogh's brother was a dealer too. He found the value of Vincent's works, and believed that Vincent would be successful even though few people enjoyed his works at that time. Without his help, Vincent could not leave so many beatiful paintings to the world.

As far as I concern, it's not a tragedy or irony that the dealers buy the art works. From anther perspective, they value the art works of different styles and boost the art market, which can advance the arts.

rodgoodUID: 2619326

Useful words and expressions:


Clutter杂乱，混乱，
Buoyant活跃的，上涨的，
shut down关门
follow a pattern
pay over the odds过高的（价格） for
fussy interiors
pipe烟斗
on behalf of
Consign交付，分派，委托

war was close at hand

WHILE the contemporary art market constantly seeks the new—new names, new imagery, new media or simply new novelty—another curious corner of the art market has remained steadfastly old-fashioned, cluttered and sentimental.

Its success lay in the high prices achieved for those that sold, half of which were bid up beyond their high estimate.

His works are often dark social commentaries featuring streets and portsides, full of ships’ rigging and lamplight that seems visually interchangeable with moonlight.

The most sought after（最抢手的） are realistic pictures of men, often gathered around a table in a room full of clutter, with glazed jugs, books, umbrellas and pieces of velvet jumbled together.


Behind them the sea, silvery, shimmering and full of light



My comments:

The report depicts a picture of the buoyant market of old-fashioned, cluttered and sentimental art. However, behind the prosperity and luxury, what we should put attention on are an inflating economy and the desperation of people to it.

Just as the report says, inflation has always been the art dealers’ friend. Compared to the risk of other business such as real estate, art investment is relatively safe in recent years under the financial crisis. Without doubt that the works in those incredibly transaction are of great art value, but it is really a pity that dealers’ purchase of these exquisite works with such high bid is firstly for the purpose of assets maintaining.

domudomuUID: 2670967

Well, this is also a artical talking about the modern relationship bwtween art and commercial. But this one differs the earlier one.
The report is an explaintion of the curious corner of art  market which is clutter and sentimental. After reading earlier passage about art and aution, I read and get to know more about this issue. Though, a good artical can't be evaluated by it's price. But price is a way to make an art a direct observation.So, money is an audiovision for layman.
As to the paintings, I always focus on the colour, the beauty and the back story of them. But, many commercials now just pay attentionm to the value of money. They regard the expensive things as good things. This remiands me of a famouse book called little prince to some extend. At the begining of this book, the little prince told us a commen phnomenon. If you( a child) told your parents there is a reallu beautiful huose with amazing outlook and a wonderful  garden in front of it , your parents will just nod their heads perfunctorily and say nothing. Because they don't even think it might be a beautiful house. But when you told them the big house is XX squares and worthy XX dollars, they will stare at you and say it must be a very pretty house at once. See this is the sense of worth of adult and of most art buyers now.
Another phenomenon attracts me is some pieces out of dates gain great fame and adoration again. However, in my mind this is a good thing , and it's a way to turn up things down. People in diffrent eras, of course have diffrent aethestic standards. It is also a method to show the positive and progressed part of our society.Just as the work of Vincent Vangogh, it used to be regarded as rubbish in people's eyes, but later, it became one of the most famouse pieces and even till now.
So if you are doing  something about art, you should never give up the special style of your work . It may be not so popular around your circle in this period .But ,by insisting on making it better,one day , your work will be appreciated by public for sure.

番茄斗斗UID: 2720914

27# sunflower_iris

Thanks to dealers, we have an opportunity to see masters' works. However, dealer himself is a business man rather than a critic. Apple in his eye is the potential value rather than art itself. I have been long informed that Vincent Van Gogh's brother is a dealer, and he can hardly sell Vincent Van Gogh's paintings until his death. Ideas like"why after?" keep haunting me.I'm not familiar with the running system of art market, but what i see in this field is that fate of an artist is determined by merchant rather by expertise.

You may argue, Vincent Van Gogh was not lucky enough to meet the right guy. I'd rather to take my stand from the article above. As the author put it，“They are happy to pay over the odds for top-ranking pictures, but leave the rest untouched.” If dealers boost the art market, they shrink it as well. Choosen ones fetch a great amount of money, while the unpicked ones can only stand aside. Who is judging the rules? Merchant only."Mr Mason said he bought the picture forstock, with no particular collector in mind.“To them, art is only a goods to invest, a better investment under the economical crisis.

When animal bronze heads from Old Summer Palace appears in the auction hall, we are lost under mere patriotism. What kind of art they are? Being titled with the heritage of Old Summer Palace alone,enables these kind of heads valve themself millions. Ironical, they are only faucets, even not a delicate decoration comparatively to the other lost heritage. What indeed make it valuable is the merchant, because they are known it by heart, Chinese will buy it someday out of patriotism.

谢谢小九～这样写写好像在写ISSUE，嘿嘿，不过表达的有些还是不够～～