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  3. One of the first lessons that you learn if you want to be a painter is that it takes only a few basic colors to mix just about a

One of the first lessons that you learn if you want to be a painter is that it takes only a few basic colors to mix just about a

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问题 One of the first lessons that you learn if you want to be a painter is that it takes only a few basic colors to mix just about any conceivable color. And once that fundamental skill has been acquired, mixing colors, which is well nigh impossible for the uninitiated, becomes practically automatic, almost as easy as tiding a bike. As for what colors can do, singly or in combination, this only becomes more mysterious the longer an artist works.
    Much of the mystery is buried deep in the nitty-gritty of technique. The impact of color, the very nature of color, is experienced in relation to other colors and also in relation to a medium. A certain red pigment, for example, will make an utterly different impression if it is presented in a water-based or oil-based medium, in a scumbled or impastoed fashion, as a mark left by a stick of pastel, as ink printed from an etching plate or a woodblock. And all of this still leaves aside the emotional or poetic or psychological ramifications of colors -- the question of what this red or that blue suggests or does not suggest, and to whom, and under what conditions. Color, which most of us begin life by regarding as one of the verities, red-yellow-blue being as fundamental as the ABCs, can eventually seem to be an experience of the most radical subjectivity. Artists aim to give that coloristic subjectivity a power that is both immediate and enduring.
    A walk through New York’s galleries will tell you that there are a vast number of ways in which color can be presented to the public. A look through the impressive literature on the development of color in art, which has been growing rapidly in the past decade, will tell you that history prepares us for this situation. Painters who want to pull emotional nuances out of subtly mixed colors will be said by some to be nostalgic for the tonal modulations of another age. Although we may be inclined to think of "modem" color as abstract color -- as color that is detached from representation -- it can be argued that abstract color is at least as old as naturalistic color, embracing both the heraldic imagery of the Middle Ages and the polychrome architecture of ancient times.
    Nowadays color, which reaches us in so many kinds of keyed-up, eye-popping technologically generated forms, can seem more a matter of "culture" than of "nature." The zingy, cheerfully artificial color that Jeremy Blake uses to considerable effect in the kinetic flood of images that fill his DVD projections is selfevidently computer-based. There are also many painters who, while working with brush and canvas, like to mirror the riot of contemporary color. Trevor Winkfield, who showed new paintings this winter, will strike some gallerygoers as an artist who never met a color he didn’t like.
Why does the author mention abstract color (para. 3)?
选项 A、To point out that abstract color is the most powerful color.
B、To illustrate that color has long been presented in vast numbers of ways.
C、To make the point that it is very difficult to tell modem color from abstract color.
D、To stress the fact the abstract color has been a poor way of presenting color.
答案B
解析 根据第3段，将颜色展现在公众面前的方式是多种多样的，这并不是什么新鲜事。现代的所谓抽象颜色和自然颜色一样久远，被用在中世纪的文章图案和古代的多色建筑中。因此作者提到颜色是为了说明颜色的多种展示方式是过去就有的一种情况。选项B为正确答案。  
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