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A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than is possible to learn in general history classes. M
A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than is possible to learn in general history classes. M
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2012-12-13
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A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than is possible to learn in general history classes. Most typical history courses concentrate on politics, economics, and war. But art history focuses on much more than this because art reflects not only the political values of a people, but also religious beliefs, emotions, and psychology. In addition, information about the daily activities of our ancestors — or of people very different from our own — can be provided by art. In short, art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place, and a study of it clearly offers us a deeper understanding than can be found in most history books.
In history books, objective information about the political life of a country is presented; that is, facts about politics are given, but opinions are not expressed. Art, on the other hand, is subjective: it reflects emotions and opinions. The great Spanish painter Francisco Goya was perhaps the first truly "political" artist. In his well-known painting The Third of May 1808, he criticized the Spanish government for its misuse of power over people. Over a hundred years later, symbolic images were used in Pablo Picasso’s Guernica to express the horror of war. Meanwhile, on another continent, the powerful paintings of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros — as well as the works of Alfredo Ramos Martines — depicted these Mexican artists’ deep anger and sadness about social problems.
In the same way, art can reflect a culture’s religious beliefs. For hundreds of years in Europe, religious art was almost the only type of art that existed. Churches and other religious buildings were filled with paintings that depicted people and stories from the Bible. Although most people couldn’t read, they could still understand biblical stories in the pictures on church walls. By contrast, one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is) its absence of human and animal images. This reflects the Islamic belief that statues are unholy.
The passage is mainly discussing______.
选项
A、the difference between general history and art history
B、the making of art history
C、what we can learn from art
D、the influence of artists on art history
答案
C
解析
可定位在整篇文章,题干问“本篇文章的主旨是什么”,通篇都在谈论艺术能够反映特定地点、特定时期人们的政治观点、情感、心理以及宗教信仰,即“我们能从艺术中学到什么”(what we can learn from art),故正确选项为C。A项虽也涉及,但不是主要论述的问题。
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