首页
登录
职称英语
The Ozarks are America’s least appreciated mountain range. Lacking the majes
The Ozarks are America’s least appreciated mountain range. Lacking the majes
游客
2023-12-13
21
管理
问题
The Ozarks are America’s least appreciated mountain range. Lacking the majesty of the Rockies, the breadth of the Appalachians or the mournful grandeur of the Cascades, there they sit, somewhere in the middle of the country, south of the Midwest, north of the south, east of the mountainous west. They have long drawn fishermen and hikers; until now, however, art fanciers have had little reason to visit.
That changes with the opening of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. With 120 acres (48.6 hectares) of forests and gardens and long hiking trails connecting it with downtown Bentonville, Crystal Bridges is not just in but also of the Ozarks. Its patron, Alice Walton, is the scion of the Ozarks’ first family: her father, Sam Walton, opened a discount store called Wal-Mart in nearby Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. Today Walmart is America’s largest private employer. The Walton Family Foundation gave the museum a $ 1.2 billion endowment and Ms Walton and the museum have been on something of a buying spree for several years.
The museum is not simply Ms Walton’s own private collection. Like Nancy Aldrich Rockefeller she has been the driving force behind its creation. Ms Walton has long spoken of wanting to bring art to a region that has little of it, and in that ambition she has without question succeeded. Though admission is free thanks to a $ 20m bequest, the museum sells memberships roughly 4, 600 of the 5, 000 memberships have been bought by Arkansans.
Crystal Bridges takes its name from Crystal Spring, which flows on the grounds, and from the multiple bridges around which the museum is designed. The architect is Moshe Safdie, best known for his half-brutalist, half-playful Habitat 67 complex in Montreal. Crystal Bridges comprises several discrete but linked structures that meander around and above two spring-fed reflecting ponds, a design that Mr. Safdie says is meant to echo the surrounding topography. Much of the museum’s roofing is copper, which currently has the umbral hue of the foliage around it—the leaves dying in autumn, the copper brand new—but which will of course gradually darken, turning a deep rust red and then dark brown before taking on the familiar light green patina in years to come.
And just as the buildings nestle into and hug their surroundings, with few right angles, so the roofs arch and swoop and fall, mimicking the region’s mountains. Trees surround the museum; as they grow they will enshroud it with leaves in full summer and expose it in winter. Crystal Bridges does not look like a traditional Japanese structure, but something of the Japanese aesthetic—simplicity and cleanness of design, reverence for nature, the impulse to build in harmony with rather than atop the natural world -pervades it.
The museum’s collection manages to be both thorough and surprising. Those who wish to see works by major American artists such as Winslow Homer, Thomas Hart Benton and Robert Rauschenberg will not be disappointed. But Don Bacigalupi, the museum director, says that in building a collection at this late date he looked at "identifying new scholarship and new research that led us toward artists and moments less well discovered". That has inspired a particularly strong focus on women in American art—as patrons, subjects and creators. Janet Sobel, who made drip paintings several years before Jackson Pollock, gets her due. Among the museum’s first-rate collection of portraits, nothing exceeds Dennis Miller Bunker’s sombre, haunting image of Anne Page; and in its contemporary galleries Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s marquetry "Room" is, like the museum itself, a chamber of wonders in an unexpected place. [br] We can infer from the passage that
选项
A、women artists usually receive less attention than men.
B、the works of top artists worldwide will be displayed.
C、young artists will have a chance to show their works.
D、Dennis Miller Bunker is the most well-known American artist.
答案
A
解析
推断题。按照试题顺序定位至末段。第三句指出“But Don Bacigalupi,the museum director,says that in building a collection at this late date he looked at ‘identifying new scholarship and now research that led us toward artists and moments less well discovered’.”,之后紧接着指出“That has inspired a particularly strong focus on women in American art”,这说明女艺术家的作品是less well discovered,故[A]为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3268306.html
相关试题推荐
ThehighestmountaininBritain,BenNevis,liesin______.A、theHighlandsB、the
The"firstAmericans"were______.A、theBlackSlavesB、thePilgrimsC、theIndians
OneofthesignsoftheawakeningoftheAmericanIndiansis______.A、thereappea
Before1973,abortionwasillegalinAmericaunlessthewoman’shealthwas
Before1973,abortionwasillegalinAmericaunlessthewoman’shealthwas
Before1973,abortionwasillegalinAmericaunlessthewoman’shealthwas
Before1973,abortionwasillegalinAmericaunlessthewoman’shealthwas
Before1973,abortionwasillegalinAmericaunlessthewoman’shealthwas
Before1973,abortionwasillegalinAmericaunlessthewoman’shealthwas
DemographicindicatorsshowthatAmericansinthepostwarperiodweremore
随机试题
[originaltext]W:HeyNeal,nowthatthemidtermsareoverabunchofusareget
[originaltext]M:DoyouthinkLaurawillaccepttheproposal?W:Noway!Q:W
Childrenshouldbetaughthowtogetalo
下列各项中,属于证券投资基本分析方法优点的是( )。A.对证券价格预测精度较高
以下()交易机制中,证券交易价格是由市场上买方和卖方订单共同驱动的。A.定
A、B两个仓库分别存放有8台和12台挖掘机,现需要往C工地和D工地各运10台挖掘
C解题指导:阴影逆时针转动,点数按3+1=4,1+4=5,4+5=9的规律变化,且上方和下方黑点、白点依次出现。故答案为C。
宜集中布置,形成居住区各级公共活动中心的公共服务设施是()。A.商业服务中
A.未骨化密生茸毛的幼角 B.胃结石 C.除去内脏的干燥体 D.角 E.
关于工期延误的论述,以下不正确的是()。A.可索赔延误与不可索赔延误同时发生
最新回复
(
0
)