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Artists over the centuries have chosen all sorts of seemingly unusual things
Artists over the centuries have chosen all sorts of seemingly unusual things
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2023-11-12
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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] How does the author feel about Lew’s painting method?
选项
A、Vague.
B、Critical.
C、Skeptical.
D、Favourable.
答案
D
解析
态度题。第三段第二、三句用了四个褒义词对鲁的作品进行赞扬并阐明其题材广泛,充分说明作者的态度是支持的,所以[D]”喜欢的”正确。[A]”含糊的”、[B]”批评的”以及[C]”怀疑的”都与文意不符,可排除。
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