Artwork Competition - Create a Character!
Are you an artist? This may be the perfect competition held by Teen Ink to check your creative abilities. We want you to create your own character. You must create a backstory for the character and give it a name. Your character must be completely original.
Rules:
● You must be a teen (aged 13—19) with a Teen Ink account (账户) to enter.
● No improper content.
● Submissions (提交的材料) must relate to the topic (Create a Character).
● The competition is open to all the individuals. Character must be your own - The character you create must be entirely your own idea and design. The backstory and name must be original as well. Ideas that do not belong to you will not be considered for the competition.
Guidelines and Details:
● All art types are accepted.
● There is no limit to the number of pieces you can submit.
● Give your character a name and backstory. Leave these in the “Author’s Comments” section of your submission.
How to Submit:
● Submit entries through our website. All entries submitted to Teen Ink are automatically considered for the competition. See our submission guidelines for more information.
● Include the words “Character Competition” in your submission’s title.
● Submit your reviews to the “Artwork” category on our site. Select the art type connected with what you are submitting. Hand in your entries before March 1, 2023.
Prizes:
Winners and honorable mentions will have their characters published in Teen Ink magazine. The overall winner will receive a $25 Amazon gift card.
1. What else should the competitors create besides creating a character?| A．They need to create a bank account. |
| B．They need to create a website. |
| C．They need to create a backstory for the character and give it a name. |
| D．They need to check creative abilities. |
| A．The content should be related to the character. |
| B．The participants should be under 13. |
| C．A teen can copy ideas from others. |
| D．Teamwork is accepted in this competition. |
| A．The overall winner will receive $25 in cash. |
| B．The winners will have chance to publish their characters. |
| C．The winners will get honorable gifts. |
| D．The winners will be given many books form Amazon. |
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1. Which trip is best for an art lover?| A．Countryside Bike Tour. | B．Personalized Day Tour in the Netherlands |
| C．Day Trip to Bruges. | D．Guided Canoe Adventure. |
| A．Length of time. | B．Means of transport. |
| C．Place of departure. | D．Size of group. |
| A．A science report. | B．A guide to Bruges. |
| C．A sports magazine. | D．A travel brochure. |
1. The poster is designed to _________.
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| B．introduce “The Land of the Pharaohs” |
| C．promote a children’s publication, AQUILA |
| D．feature summer topics of AQUILA 2022 |
| A．April issue. | B．May issue. | C．June issue. | D．July/August Issue. |
| A．Purchasing the back-issues. |
| B．Downloading online issues. |
| C．Subscribing to the double issues. |
| D．Buying current issues at the newsstand. |
【推荐3】VISIT OR AVOID?
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Then travel overland to Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Angkor Wat is a huge temple complex which contains the largest religious building in the world. About 500 years ago, Angkor Wat was mysteriously abandoned and only rediscovered 150 years ago.
After that, fly to Halong Bay in the north of Vietnam. Thousands of tiny islands seem to float in the blue waters of the bay. Some people call it the Eighth Wonder of the World. There’s certainly nowhere quite like it.
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Valentina is from Chile. She’s 27 years old and she loves shopping and the sun. She wants to go somewhere special during January and February. |
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1. The passage is most likely to be found in a column named________.| A．Travel Experts | B．Memorable Journeys |
| C．Places Worth Visiting | D．Those Who Love Travelling |
| A．modern | B．isolated | C．traditional | D．noisy |
| A．It’s hot all year long. | B．It is good for shopping. |
| C．It’s far away from her hometown. | D．It doesn’t have much sunshine in January. |
【推荐1】More than 2, 500 tiny glass jars — each containing brightly colored powders — line the walls of a museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The pigment(颜料)samples make up the Forbes Pigment Collection. Art experts rely on the collection for an important scientific purpose — the colors act as standards to help them conserve and authenticate artists’ paintings.
About a century ago, Edward Forbes, an art historian and art museum director at Harvard, noticed that the paint on some 14thcentury paintings in his museum’s collection was deteriorating. To figure out how to save the paintings, he realized he would have to learn more about the materials used to make their paint.
Today, people can buy paint in every color of the rainbow. But variety in paint colors — and the ability to purchase those paints at a store — wasn’t always possible. For centuries, artists collected and crushed(碾碎) everything from shells to rare stones to create the pigments that colored their artworks. They also used metal oxides(氧化物).
From 1910 to 1944, Forbes travelled the globe collecting powdered pigments. The samples helped art conservators understand how paint behaves on a chemical level. Paint might react to changes in light, temperature, or humidity, depending on its pigments’ compositions. This can affect the colors of a painting over time or even cause paint to come off the painted surface.
Today, Narayan Khandekar, a senior conservation scientist at the Harvard Art Museums, is building on Forbes’s work by adding newer, chemically made pigments to the collection. The collection also plays an important role in helping to stop counterfeiters(伪造者). In 2007, experts compared pigments from the collection with those from a painting thought to belong to abstract artist Jackson Pollock. Chemical analysis showed that a red pigment in the painting was actually made 20 years after the artist’s death, proving that the artwork was a fake.
1. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “deteriorating” in Paragraph 2?| A．Dropping off. | B．Breaking down. |
| C．Cleared away. | D．Gathered together. |
| A．He was good at chemistry. |
| B．He collected many pigments. |
| C．He created pigments by himself. |
| D．He repaired a lot of old paintings. |
| A．Colorful Collection |
| B．Looking for Pigments |
| C．Every Pigment Has Its Own Story |
| D．Edward Forbes and His Collection |
【推荐2】Anastasiya and Sergey Lutsenko, a couple of talented artists from the Russian City of Krasnoyarsk, are famous, among doll collectors all around the globe as two of the world’s most careful doll makers. They can spend several months on a single piece, but it is this attention to details that makes the final product so impressive.
To say that the Lutsenkos’ dolls look like tiny human beings is not that much of an exaggeration(夸张). With their shiny, little eyes, perfectly proportionate faces and carefully painted details like freckles and moles, these dolls often look like mini-sized people. To add to the realism, no two dolls are the same. They are all hand-made and hand-painted. Plus they are customizable, with the owners being able to change their clothes, accessories(配饰), and hair.
Anastasiya and Sergey are both professional artists, graduates of the Krasnodar Art College and the Kuban State University of Culture and Arts. However, they never trained in doll making. During her last year at university, Anastasiya had started experimenting with jewelry made from polymer clay(软陶)and decided to use the material to create a doll for one of her teachers, as a birthday gift. It took her two weeks, during which she struggled with many problems, but the process also interested her.
Over the next few years, the artistic couple uncovered all the secrets of human-like dolls, from the right combination of materials to the right way to bake the dolls and paint them. They started making dolls in 2011 and they’re still learning, but their skill has definitely been attracting a lot of attention from doll collectors.
The Lutsenkos’ dolls sell for tens of thousands of rubles, but the price tag has never scared away enthusiasts. Collectors in Russia as well as foreign countries like Germany and the UK are willing to pay extra money for these incredible masterpieces.
The Lutsenkos’ dolls are some of the most wanted among private collectors, but getting your hands on one is easier said than done, because they’re so rare.
1. What probably impressed customers most about the Lutsenkos’ dolls?| A．Their body shapes. | B．Their materials. | C．Their details. | D．Their prices. |
| A．Similar. | B．Lifelike. | C．Perfect. | D．Exaggerated. |
| A．The couple have never trained in art. |
| B．Anastasiya created her first doll for Sergey. |
| C．One of Anastasiya’s teachers was an excellent doll maker. |
| D．Anastasiya became a doll maker quite by chance. |
| A．beautiful but too costly |
| B．masterpieces worth higher prices |
| C．products made from a rare material |
| D．available anytime with enough money |
【推荐3】According to Americans for the Arts, more than two-thirds of U.S. adults say that the arts “lift me up beyond everyday experiences.” Still, only 30 percent attended a concert of any type in 2017; 23 percent visited an art museum; six percent attended a literary event. Fewer than half actively created art of any kind.
What has caused this phenomenon is that we do not have time for art — we are weighed down by our day-to-day responsibilities. Maybe you like to play a little background music while you work but most of us rarely, if ever, went to see a live performance, let alone visited a gallery. And reading poetry? Perhaps not since high school.
Too often, we let the realities of life get in the way of the arts, which can feel insignificant by comparison. But this is a mistake. The arts might be the single most in-depth experience you will ever be given to explore the nature and meaning of life. And if you make time to consume and produce art, you will find your life become fuller and happier.
Some philosophers address the problem of life consumed by work and material pursuits. They argue that art provides relief from this routine, expanding our perspective and bringing us closer to true reality.
Think of a time when you heard a piece of music and wanted to cry. Or recall your fast heartbeats as you stared at a delicate lifelike sculpture. Chances are that it probably stimulated (刺激) a sudden awakening, much like the shock from a lungful of pure oxygen after breathing in smoggy air.
If you are among those who feel that art is “pure pleasure to experience and participate in,” you might see it the same way you see eating out, or skydiving: as a luxury (奢侈品) item in your limited budgets of time and money. As such, it probably gets the same sort of treatment as any minor hobby. Don’t make this error. Treat art more like exercise or sleep: a necessity for a life full of deep satisfaction.
1. What does paragraph 1 focus on?| A．The opinion of U.S. adults about art. |
| B．The types of art that U.S. adults engage with. |
| C．The mismatch between value and behaviour as to art. |
| D．The connection between everyday experiences and art. |
| A．Art reveals the nature of life. | B．Art gives way to material pursuits. |
| C．Life without art is meaningless. | D．Background music is a kind of art. |
| A．Art awakes people’s talents. | B．Art improves physical health. |
| C．Art brings us closer to nature. | D．Art makes life fuller and happier. |
| A．Art: A Habit, Not a Luxury | B．Art: A Bridge, Not a Barrier |
| C．Art: A Decoration, Not a Reality | D．Art: A Pleasure, Not a Burden |
