Welcome to our collections! We have so much for you to enjoy, explore and experience!
The LIFE Picture Collection
The LIFE Picture Collection(LIFE) is one of the most important picture files in the United States of the 20th century. From 1936 to 2000, LIFE collected more than 10 million photos across 120,000 stories. The original photos and articles were collected by Meredith, a well-known photographer who created LIFE.
LIFE works with individuals and organizations to research, show, and reproduce our pictures for new visitors. If you’re interested in teaming up with us, please check out the information on this page.
Other Collections
In addition to LIFE, we have also got a number of picture collections for you to view, including:
●DMI Collection: pictures about famous people from the late 1970s to the early 2000s.
●Dahlstrom Collection: 7000 photos of New York and the mid-Atlantic area.
●Hugo Jaeger Photographic Collection: color photos of Europe.
●Mansell Collection: works focusing on art and culture.
Using Our Content
We are happy to work with you. You are permitted to use our pictures. Please contact us for any of the following:
●Photos for book, magazine and website
●Museum and Art Show
●Research
【小题1】What can we learn about LIFE?A.Its photos add up to 120,000. | B.It includes many old pictures. |
C.It only works with individuals. | D.Its photos were all taken by Meredith. |
A.DMI Collection. | B.Mansell Collection. |
C.Dahlstrom Collection. | D.Hugo Jaeger Photographic Collection. |
A.A letter. | B.A speech. | C.An Interview. | D.An introduction. |
The following four famous paintings—from Jan van Eyck’s portrait to Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece—have stood the test of time.
The Arnolfini Portrait
The Arnolfini Portrait of Jan van Eyck, an oil painting on wood produced in 1434, in which a man and a woman hold hands with a window behind him and a bed behind her, is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces in the National Gallery, London. This painting is as visually interesting as it is famed. It is also an informative document on fifteenth-century society, through Jan van Eyck’s heavy use of symbolism—while husbands went out to engage in business, wives concerned themselves with domestic duties.
The Starry Night
During his 12—month stay at the mental hospital near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France between 1889 and 1890, Vincent Willem van Gogh painted The Starry Night, an oil on canvas(帆布), a moderately abstract landscape painting of an expressive night sky over a small hillside village. When the Museum of Modern Art in New York City purchased the painting from a private collector in 1941, it was not well known, but it has since become one of Van Gogh’s most famous works.
The Harvesters
The Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565. It depicted the harvest time which most commonly occurred within the months of August and September. Nicolaes Jonghelinck, a merchant banker and art collector from Antwerp, commissioned this painting. The painting has been at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 1919.
Guernica
Guernica, a large black-and-white oil painting, was painted by the Cubist Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso in 1937. The title “Guernica” refers to the city that was bombed by Nazi planes during the Spanish Civil War. The painting depicted the horrors of war and as a result, has come to be an anti-war symbol and a reminder of the tragedies of war. Today, the painting is housed at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.
【小题1】Which of the following paintings was produced earliest?A.Guernica. | B.The Harvesters. |
C.The Starry Night. | D.The Arnolfini Portrait. |
A.Pieter Bruegel the Elder. | B.Vincent Willem van Gogh. |
C.Jan van Eyck. | D.Pablo Picasso. |
A.It was an oil painting on wood. |
B.It depicted the painter’s life in mental hospital. |
C.It wasn’t widely recognized before 1941. |
D.It was given away to the museum by a private collector. |
A Canadian addicted to Chinese ink wash painting
Canadian Brandon Collins-Green calls himself a Chinese culture “addict”. He has lived in China for over six years, spending his time in painting in the Chinese ink wash style and translating Chinese classics into English.
Collins-Green, 37, is a doctoral candidate in classical Chinese literature at Jiangxi Normal University in Nanchang. About 15 years ago, his first encounter with a stage adaption of the classic Chinese novel The Dream of the Red Chamber in Singapore inspired him to study Chinese in the following years. Learning Chinese as a second language, Collins-Green found it was not easy to understand a novel written in Chinese. “Besides the stories, I am interested in the poems, dialogues and lantern riddles in the book,” he said, “Because of The Dream of the Red Chamber, I wanted to get a closer look at China.”
His strong curiosity about China and Chinese culture prompted Collins-Green to travel to the city of Nanchang in 2015, in the hope of learning what the real China was like. During a visit to Badashanren Memorial Hall in Nanchang, where paintings of a famous Chinese artist were on exhibition, Collins-Green was interested in how a tiny brush could depict (描画) the curves of hills, shade and light on paper.
In his years spent translating The Dream of the Red Chamber into English, he has gradually found his way of combining Chinese and foreign cultures into his paintings, writing poems in English as the backdrops of his figures. As of this year, Collins-Green has completed over 2,500 works, including translations of The Dream of the Red Chamber, landscape paintings and portraits.
He lives a life greatly influenced by The Dream of the Red Chamber, renting a loft of about 9 square meters beside his university as a studio. Since this March, his paintings have been exhibited at art festivals in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Xi’an, bringing him a group of fans. Some have sent him emails, asking about the meanings of the poems in his paintings.
“We can see from Collins-Green that traditional Chinese culture is becoming more attractive to people in other countries,” said Li Shunchen, Collins-Green’s mentor at Jiangxi Normal University. “I really recommend that more people come to China to see how fast it is changing and to enjoy the charm of its culture,” Collins-Green said.
【小题1】What first inspired Collins-Green to study Chinese according to the passage?A.His love for Chinese paintings. | B.The stage version of a classic Chinese novel. |
C.The need of his translation work. | D.His second language learning. |
A.amazed. | B.disappointed. | C.relaxed. | D.frightened. |
A.His strong curiosity about China gradually faded away. |
B.He studied Chinese well in China. |
C.He made great achievements as an addict to Chinese culture. |
D.His works produced some negative reactions in viewers. |
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