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Watercolor is the oldest painting medium known. It dates back to the early cave dwellers ’who discovered they could add lifelike
Watercolor is the oldest painting medium known. It dates back to the early cave dwellers ’who discovered they could add lifelike
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Watercolor is the oldest painting medium known. It dates back to the early cave dwellers ’who discovered they could add lifelike qualities to drawings of animals and other figures on the walls of caves by mixing the natural colors found in the earth with water.
Fresco, one of the greatest of all art forms, is done with watercolor. It is created by mixing pigments and water and applying these to wet plaster. Of the thousands of people who stand under Michelangelo’s heroic ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, very few are aware that they are looking at perhaps the greatest watercolor painting in the world.
The invention of oil painting by the Flemish masters in the fifteenth century led to a decline in fresco painting, and for the next several centuries watercolor was used mainly as a medium for doing preliminary sketches or as a tool for study. It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that English painters reinstated watercolor as a serious art form. The English have a notorious love for the outdoors and also great fondness for small, intimate pictures. The subdued tones of watercolor had a remarkably strong appeal for them.
The popularity of watercolor continued to grow until in the twentieth century the United States passed England as the center for watercolor, producing such well - known watercolor artists as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth.
Which of the following can be inferred about what 16th and 17th century artists thought of watercolor painting in comparison to oil painting?
选项
A、Watercolor waft more costly, but was better.
B、Oil painting was less permanent, but more vivid.
C、Watercolor was not appropriate for finished works.
D、Oil painting tended to be difficult to use.
答案
C
解析
文章第三段中提到,15世纪油画的发明使得用水彩做的壁画走.向衰落。在以后的两个世纪中,水彩画只是用来画草图和用作学习绘画的工具。直到18、19世纪,英国的画家才使水彩画恢复了其作为严肃的艺术形式的地位。因此正确答案为C。
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