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When we consider great painters of the p
When we consider great painters of the p
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2022-08-02
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When we consider great painters of the past, the study of art and the study of illusion cannot always be separated. By illusion I mean those contrivances of color, line, shape, and forth that lead us to see marks on a flat surface as depicting three-dimensional objects in space. I must emphasize that I am not making a plea, disguised or otherwise, for the exercise of illusionist tricks in painting today, although I am, in fact rather critical of certain theories of non-representational art. But to argue over these theories would be to miss the point. That the discoveries and effects of representation that were the pride of earlier artists have become trivial today I would not deny for a moment. Yet I believe that we are in real danger of losing contact with past masters if we accept the fashionable doctrine that such matters never had anything to do with art. The very reason why the representation of nature can now be considered something commonplace should be of the greatest interest to art historians. Never before has there been an age when the visual image was so cheap in every sense of the word. We are surrounded and assailed by posters and advertisements, comics and magazine illustrations. We see aspects of reality represented on television, postage stamps, and food packages. Painting is taught in school and practiced as a pastime, and many modest amateurs have mastered tricks that would have looked like sheer magic to the 14th?century painter Giotto. Even the crude colored renderings on a cereal box might have made Giotto’s contemporaries gasp. Perhaps there are people who concluded from this that the cereal box is superior to a Giotto; I do not. But I think that the victory and vulgarization of representational skills create a problem for both art historians and critics. In this connection it is instructive to remember the Greek saying that to marvel is the beginning of knowledge and if we cease to marvel we may be in danger of ceasing to know. I believe we must restore our sense of wonder at the capacity to conjure up by forms, lines, shades, or colors those mysterious phantoms of visual reality we call “pictures.” Even comics and advertisements, rightly viewed, provide food for thought. Just as the study of poetry remains incomplete without an awareness of the language of prose, so, I believe, the study of art will be increasingly supplemented by inquiry into the “linguistics” of the visual image. The way the language of art refers to the visible world is both so obvious and so mysterious that it is still largely unknown except to artists who use it as we use all language—without needing to know its grammar and semantics.The passage asserts which of the following about commercial art?A.There are many examples of commercial art whose artistic merit is equal to that of great works of art of the past.B.Commercial art is heavily influenced by whatever doctrines are fashionable in the serious art world of the time.C.The line between commercial art and great art lies primarily in how an image is used, not in the motivation for its creation.D.The pervasiveness of contemporary commercial art has led art historians to undervalue representational skills.
选项
A.There are many examples of commercial art whose artistic merit is equal to that of great works of art of the past.
B.Commercial art is heavily influenced by whatever doctrines are fashionable in the serious art world of the time.
C.The line between commercial art and great art lies primarily in how an image is used, not in the motivation for its creation.
D.The pervasiveness of contemporary commercial art has led art historians to undervalue representational skills.
答案
D
解析
文中:But I think that the victory…we may be in danger of ceasing to know.作者认为商业广告的推行和通俗化给艺术历史学家和评论家们造成了一定的难题,即他们会低估这种具象技能。
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