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Artists over the centuries have chosen all sorts of seemingly unusual things

游客2023-11-12  23
问题     Artists over the centuries have chosen all sorts of seemingly unusual things with which to create their art, from ground-up roots, soils and foods to blood and even urine, as Andy Warhol so infamously proved.
    For Matthew Lew, the chosen medium is wine. And his reason for taking the unexpected step is identical to that given by many when asked why they love drinking wine: its terroir. Terroir is the French word for soil, but it means so much more than that. Terroir is a uniqueness rooted in a sense of a place. That’s important to Lew, who began a few years ago to use wines made around the world to link his work with specific geographical areas. " It gives a different essence to the piece, " the Chicago artist explained.
    A just completed painting, a Tuscan landscape, used two Italian wines, a 2005 Fresco-baldi Nipozzano Chianti Riserva, and a sparkling non-vintage Canella Prosecco di Conegli-ano. His works are colorful, contemporary, expressive and often bold. Themes range from Buddhas and cityscapes to elegant abstracts. Usually, he’ll mix in a client’s favorite wine to give a commissioned piece a special significance.
    Lew is usually more interested in where the wine comes from than how it tastes. That explains the bottle of brownish Cana Wedding Wine, with a label that boasts it’s "a souvenir from the Holy Land, " in his art supply cabinet. He also collects waters from around the world, many of them gifts from friends, to use in his paintings. Lew paints a lot with Rioja, Spanish red, because he lived for three years in Basque country before moving to Chicago five years ago.
    The artist really doesn’t use the wine "raw". Instead, he mixes the wine into acrylic paints. Stirring in wine results in a richer effect and a watercolor-like texture, he said. " White wines tend to be a bit more subdued, and I use more paint with them to get a richer tone, " Lew said. "What is great, too, is mixing in a bubbly, like a rose. It gives the paint a really great texture and has a pink tone that stands out better than the white wine.
    The wine adds an element of unpredictability too. He’s not always sure what the final color will be. "You never really know what’s going to happen, " he said. "Usually it will not let you down.
    The wine Lew paints with is not necessarily the wine he drinks. He likes pinot grigio in the glass, especially Santa Margherita from Italy, but chardonnay on the tip of his paint brush. "Chardonnay has a yellowish tone to it which brings out more of a golden color, while pinot grigio is lighter, I would use it if I wanted something light and creamy, " he said.
    Lew likes wine, but he’d rather enjoy a vodka and soda. There were only two wine bottles on hand during a recent visit, both Californian, a 1999 merlot from Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars and a shiraz from Barefoot Cellars.
    Ultimately, he said, there’s no wine too uncool to paint with.  [br] Which of the following is INCORRECT about the wines Lew uses?
选项 A、The wines he uses will often satisfy his customers’ demand.
B、Without wines, his painting may be duller than present.
C、The uncertainty of wine added will ruin his paintings.
D、The wine he drinks may not be used to paint.
答案 C
解析 细节题。虽然第六段开头提出酒的添加具有不确定性，而鲁本人对此也持认可态度，但是本段最后一句点明酒的添加通常不会让人失望，所以是不可能毁坏整幅油画的，故[C]为答案。第三段末句谈到鲁通常会添加顾客最喜欢的酒品，可以看出鲁使用的酒通常都会满足顾客的需求，所以排除[A]；第五段第三句说加人酒会使油画带有水彩的特性而且色调变得更加丰富，后文也举例进行了论证，所以[B]说法正确，排除；第七段首句点明鲁画画所用的酒并不必要是他所喝的酒，也排除[D]。
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