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

游客2023-11-12  26
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] According to Lew’s opinion about wine, which of the following is CORRECT?
选项 A、Every kind of wine can be used for painting.
B、Flavor of a wine plays the most important role.
C、White wine can be used alone for painting.
D、Pinot grigio is more enjoyable than Coca Cola.
答案 A
解析 细节题。最后一段Lew提到there’s no wine too uncool to paint with，意为“每一种酒都很酷，都可以用来作画”，所以[A]正确。第四段第一句谈到关于酒的产地和味道，鲁对前者更感兴趣，说明酒的味道并非是最重要的，故[B]错误；第五段首句提出鲁不用“未加工的酒”，而是将其与颜料混合，白葡萄酒也包括其中，可知[C]与之不符；第八段首句谈到，鲁喜欢酒，但是他却宁愿饮用伏特加和汽水，并且从第七段中可以得出，Pinot grigio是他喜欢的葡萄酒之一，而Coca Cola则为最知名的汽水，所以[D]与文意相悖。
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