首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
At the start of her talk Rebecca points out that new graduates can find it hard to ______. When she had developed a portfolio o
At the start of her talk Rebecca points out that new graduates can find it hard to ______. When she had developed a portfolio o
admin
2009-05-13
72
问题
At the start of her talk Rebecca points out that new graduates can find it hard to ______.
When she had developed a portfolio of illustrations, Rebecca found publishers ______.
Lecturer: I’d like to introduce Rebecca Bramwell, an artist and illustrator, who has come along today to talk to you all about getting your first job or commission as an artist ... Over to you Rebecca.
Rebecca: Thank you for inviting me. I remember when I graduated back in 1983, I was very excited about getting my first commission. My degree was in Fine Art and I’d worked long and hard to get it. I was an enthusiastic student and I never found it difficult to find the incentive to paint. I think as a student you’re pushed along by fellow students and tutors and the driving force is there. However, when you leave college you find yourself saying things like ’l’ll have one more cup of coffee and then I’ll sit down to work’. I hate to admit it but I say it myself. Suddenly it isn’t finding the inspiration or getting the right paper that’s a problem, it’s you. In my view, there are a number of reasons why this happens. It’s a real challenge making a decent living as a new artist ... you have to find a market for your work, often you work freelance and need to take samples or portfolios of your work from place to place ... these experiences are common to a lot of professional people ... but artists also have to bare their souls to the world in a way ... more than anything they want praise ... if people don’t like what they create then it can be a very emotional and upsetting experience hearing them say this. I began to realise that these problems were preventing me from having a career in art and so I decided to experiment. I was a painter but I started to dabble in illustration ... drawing pictures for books, cards ... and this offered me the opportunity to become more emotionally detached from my work. I was no longer producing images from the heart but developing images for a specifed subject ... taking a more practical approach.I began to develop a collection of my illustrations which I put into a portfolio and started to carry around with me to show prospective clients and employers. But it was still tricky because publishers, for example, want to know that your drawings will reproduce well in a book but without having had any work published, it’s hard to prove this. Having a wonderful portfolio or collection of original artwork is, of course, a first step but what most potential clients would like to see is printed artwork and without this ’evidence’ they tend to hold back still when it comes to offering a contract.
Well, I overcame this problem in two ways. And I suppose this is my advice to you on preparing your portfolio of your best work. The first way was by submitting my work for a competition, and the one I chose was for a horoscope design and was sponsored by a top women’s magazine. There are a few of these competitions each year and they offer new illustrators an opportunity to showcase their work. The other approach I took was to design and print some mock-up pages of a book. In other words, I placed some of my illustrations next to some text in order to demonstrate how my work would look when it was printed. Perhaps I was lucky in that I had taken a degree that provided me with all-round creative skills so that I could vary my style and wasn’t limited to a certain technique. I think that is important. The art world, and many other creative fields, do try to pigeon-hole people into snug boxes with an accompanying label. I think you should try to resist this if you feel it happening to you. If you don’t, you’ll find it difficult to have new work accepted if you try to develop your style at a later stage in your career.
Nevertheless, when you start out and particularly when you’re going for an interview, it’s important not to confuse people by having a lot of different examples in your portfolio. One remedy for this is to separate your work into distinct categories. In my case, I did this by dividing my design-inspired illustrations from my paintings. It is then easier to analyse the market suited to each portfolio; such as magazines, book jackets, CD covers etc. Working under two names is also useful as it clarifies the different approaches and offers a distinction between them. I think it’s been hard for artists to be recognised in anything other than the pigeon-holes that they have been placed in. Luckily these barriers are slowly being demolished ...
选项
A、more receptive to her work.
B、equally cautious about her work.
C、uninterested in her work.
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/L2AO777K
本试题收录于:
雅思听力题库雅思(IELTS)分类
0
雅思听力
雅思(IELTS)
相关试题推荐
Recently,agroupofresearchersfromTokyodevelopedadevicethatallowsthemtoidentifyindividualsoftheendangeredGanges
Peoplefrequentlystatethatbooksaboutrecentcatastrophesaremorally(i)______attemptstoprofitfromthemisfortuneofothe
Afteraslumpinsales,theboardofdirectorsdecidedto______withanothercorporation,formingoneofthelargestconglomerat
AlthoughcosmicobjectshavestruckEarthsincetheplanet’sveryformation,humanityhasonlyrecentlybecomeawareoftheseev
Thispassageisadaptedfrommaterialpublishedin2001.FrederickDouglasswasunquestionablythemostfamousAfricanAmerican
PardisSabetihasearneddistinctionin______ways:shedevelopedameansoftracingnaturalselectioninthegenomeandshesang
Someteachersworrythathistorycourseswillbecome(i)______forstudentsduetocurricularpressuresthatare(ii)______thesu
Anyoneservingastransportationcommissionermustbecomeaccustomedtopubliccriticism,andindeedHendersonisnowquite_____
TheauthormakesreferencetothreeconsultantsintheReadingPassage.Whichofthelistofpointsbelowdotheseconsultantsm
TheauthormakesreferencetothreeconsultantsintheReadingPassage.Whichofthelistofpointsbelowdotheseconsultantsm
随机试题
将一组话路所需的各种控制信号集中到一条与话音通路分开的公共信号数据链路上进行传送的是_______。
人体最大、最复杂的关节是()
G-6-PD缺陷
临床上壶腹癌最重要的症状是
甲市某公司与乙市某公司在丙市签订了一份购销合同,约定合同于丁市履行。合同中的仲裁条款约定:若因本合同发生争议,提交设立于丙市的丙仲裁委员会进行仲裁。现两公司因合同发生争议,甲市某公司欲申请仲裁却得知丙市并没有设立仲裁委员会,但甲、乙、丁市均设有仲裁委员会。
二级以下公路、技术不太复杂的分项和分部工程可不编写监理细则。()
出境货物通关单的有效期为:一般货物为( )天;鲜活类货物( )天;植物和植物产品为( )天,北方冬季可适当延长至35天。
企业在社会进步、经济发展中所应担当的角色和责任是指()。
当前我国学生早恋现象呈上升趋势,早恋成为教育和管理中的一个重要问题。下列关于学生早恋的措施中,合理的有()。
下列选项中不属于破坏社会主义市场经济秩序罪的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)