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THE ART OF EMILY CARR 1 Born in 187 I, Emily Carr grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, surrounded by a rugged landscape that
THE ART OF EMILY CARR 1 Born in 187 I, Emily Carr grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, surrounded by a rugged landscape that
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THE ART OF EMILY CARR
1 Born in 187 I, Emily Carr grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, surrounded by a rugged landscape that
fostered
her passion for nature, animals, and painting.Carr started taking drawing lessons at the age of nine and decided to become an artist in her early teens.Before she was sixteen, both of her parents had died, so she lived with her sister until she went to art school in San Francisco.Later she studied in England and France before returning to Canada.Carr’s early paintings were well received by local critics in Victoria and Vancouver, yet it was difficult to make a living flom painting alone, so she supported herself by teaching children’s art classes, raising dogs, and operating a boarding house.
2 Early in life, Carr developed an interest in painting the aboriginal culture of British Columbia.At the age of twenty-six, she made her first sketching trip to Ucluelet, an Indian Reserve on the west side of Vancouver Island.Her paintings of the First Nations people documented their
fishing villages
, totem poles, and life in the forest.Her fondness for aboriginal culture can be seen in Totem Forest, a series of totem poles painted in a bold style as Cart attempted to capture the spirit of the scene that would transcend its physical reality.The people of the villages affectionately called her "Klee Wyck," which means "the laughing one."
3 For the next forty years, Carr returned to the aboriginal villages to sketch and paint.These camping trips were unusual for a woman of her time, but to paint successfully Carr had to
wrestle with the elements
, with all of her senses alert.She drew inspiration from the cold, raw dampness of the coast, the sounds of the forest, and the sting of the smoke from campfires-experiences that she distilled to their essence in her large body of work.
4 Carr began to receive national recognition in 1927.At her first major exhibition outside of British Columbia, her paintings were shown in Toronto along with those of the Group of Seven.Carr met some of the Group when she traveled east for the show, and she liked what she saw of their work, especially the paintings of Lawren Harris.She eventually became a close friend of Harris and other prominent Canadian artists who treated her as a kindred spirit.The Toronto exhibition was a turning point for Carr, establishing her reputation as a leading figure in Canadian art.Encouraged by Harris, Carr revisited her earlier themes, creating the monumental paintings of totem poles that are her best-known works.She combined modernism with aboriginal form and color to create a powerful and unique visual landscape that captured the transcendental qualities of the wilderness.
5 At the age of seventy, Carr realized that the ancient First Nations culture might one day be lost, so she began to write stories about the beautiful, calm places of her earlier life among her aboriginal friends.As she lay in her bed, disabled by failing health, she recounted her days as Klee Wyck, which after forty years were still fresh in her mind because she had lived
them
so deeply at the time.In 1941 Carr published these stories in her first book, Klee Wyck, which united art and literature in a highly original way and won the Governor-General’s award for general literature.
6 The art profession recognized Carr during her lifetime, and galleries in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Seattle displayed her paintings in solo exhibitions.While art historians have characterized her works as showing the influence of the Group of Seven, they also acknowledge that Carr produced paintings that were uniquely hers and
credit
her for raising Canadian art to a new height.The subjects Carr chose to paint, the region of the country in which she painted, and her own ideas about art combined to produce a vision that distinguished her from other artists.
Carr’s paintings endure as visual icons that Canadians can most easily associate with an individual artist, and for this reason she is the best-known woman artist in Canadian history.
Glossary:
aboriginal: existing in a region from the beginning; native
Group of Seven: a group of influential Canadian artists
transcendental: mystical; spiritual; supernatural
Look at the four squares, A, B, C, and D, which indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage.Where would the sentence best fit?
Her later paintings applied the same intensity to the deep forests of British Columbia as did her earlier works.
ACarr began to receive national recognition in 1927.At her first major exhibition outside of British Columbia, her paintings were shown in Toronto along with those of the Group of Seven.Carr met some of the Group when she traveled east for the show, and she liked what she saw of their work, especially the paintings of Lawren Harris.B She eventually became a close friend of Harris and other prominent Canadian artists who treated her as a kindred spirit. CThe Toronto exhibition was a turning point for Carr, establishing her reputation as a leading figure in Canadian art.Encouraged by Harris, Carr revisited her earlier themes, creating the monumental paintings of totem poles that are her best-known works.D She combined modernism with aboriginal form and color to create a powerful and unique visual landscape that captured the transcendental qualities of the wilderness.
选项
A、
B、
C、
D、
答案
D
解析
In the added sentence, Her later paintings refers to the monumental paintings of totem poles that are her best-known works, mentioned in the previous sentence.The added sentence compares her later paintings to her earlier works, which further develops the idea that Carr revisited her earlier themes, mentioned in the previous sentence.The next sentence further develops the topic of her later paintings.(l .8)
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