“Withoutthefog,Londonwouldn'tbeabeautifulcity,”theFren...
问题详情:
“Without the fog, London wouldn't be a beautiful city,” the French painter Claude Monet wrote to his wife, Alice, during one of his long visits to England from France. Few Londoners would have agreed with his statement at the time, when the city was choked by the smog of the Industrial Revolution, but no one argues with the beauty of the colorful skies he began painting there between 1899 and 1901. Pollution has never looked quite as attractive as when seen through Monet's eyes.
Now there is evidence that Monet's images of London were not only Impressionist creations, but a result of highly accurate observation. According to a paper published by two environmental scientists, the paintings may “provide useful information in the analysis of the London fogs and air quality during this period” — a period before pollution levels were routinely recorded.
In their study, Jacob Baker and John E. Thomas of the University of Birmingham analyzed the position of the sun in 9 of the 19 paintings in Monet's “House of Parliament” series. There was “a perfect correlation(吻合)”,Thomas says, between the solar positions in the images, the actual solar positions from astronomical records and the dates on which Monet began the works. ”We believe,” Thomas says, “that we can basically work out how much smoke would have to be in the air to create that visibility and those colors in, say, February 1900 through the images.”
Some art historians doubt the London paintings hold this much documentary evidence, pointing out the Monet continued to work on many of the images after he returned to his studio in Giverny, France. They also argue that there's no question that Monet was astonishingly realistic to what lay in front of him, but at the same time, for example, he had a penchant for pinks. He always was trying to put pinks into pictures throughout his career.
Thomas admits that “it's still just a hypothesis” but maintains that “we're fairly optimistic that we'll get something out of it”.
25. We may infer from the passage that .
A. modern people have known what caused the fog in London through early record
B. most painters were attracted and inspired by the fog of London
C. many citizens were once proud of their mysterious and beautiful foggy air
D. London used to suffer a lot from the Industrial Revolution
26. About Monet's paintings, which of the following statements is true?
A. They are not so popular and attractive today because too many still exist.
B. They are full of the painters' imagination rather than realistic drawings.
C. Many of the paintings by Monet are colored pink.
D. They have recorded the London fogs and air quality by the painter routinely.
27. According to the passage, the study of Jacob Baker and John E. Thomas has .
A. been questioned by some art historians
B. found the answer to what contributed to the foggy air in London
C. provided enough evidence to carry out more research
D. attracted great attention from many scientists
【回答】
DCA
知识点:人物传记 故事类阅读
题型:阅读理解
-
造成太平天国运动与以往农民起义具有新的不同特点的主要原因是( )A.领导阶级不同 B.所处的...
问题详情:造成太平天国运动与以往农民起义具有新的不同特点的主要原因是( )A.领导阶级不同 B.所处的时代不同C.指导思想不同 D.起义*组成不同【回答】B知识点:近代*反侵略求*的斗争太平天国运动题型:选择题...
-
我国现存最早的数学名著是A.《九章算术》 B.《缀术》 C.《大明历》 ...
问题详情:我国现存最早的数学名著是A.《九章算术》 B.《缀术》 C.《大明历》 D.《水经注》【回答】A知识点:大河流域人类文明的摇篮题型:选择题...
-
如图所示,细绳MO与NO所能承受的最大拉力相同,长度MO>NO,则在不断增加重物G重力的过程中(绳OC不...
问题详情:如图所示,细绳MO与NO所能承受的最大拉力相同,长度MO>NO,则在不断增加重物G重力的过程中(绳OC不会断): ( ) A.ON绳先被拉断B.OM绳先被拉断C.ON绳和OM绳同时被拉断D.因无具体数...
-
命题“若aA,则b∈B”的否命题是( )(A)若aA,则bB (B)若a∈A,则bB(C)若b∈B,...
问题详情:命题“若aA,则b∈B”的否命题是()(A)若aA,则bB (B)若a∈A,则bB(C)若b∈B,则aA (D)若bB,则a∈A【回答】B.命题“若p,则q”的否命题为“若﹁p,则﹁q”,故该命题的否命题为“若a∈A,则bB”.知识点:常用逻辑用语题型:选择题...
相关文章
- 任务型阅读Whatdoyouwanttobewhenyougrowup?It'sadifficultquest...
- 任务型阅读Whatdoyouwanttobewhenyougrowup?It'sadifficultquest...
- 任务型阅读Whatdoyouwanttobewhenyougrowup?It'sadifficultquest...
- “Idon'tfeelrightaboutthis,”Isaidtooneofmycousinsinalow...
- 七选五阅读There'splentyofadviceoutthereaboutwhattodotogettos...
- —Iknownothingaboutthehistoryofthetelephone.Couldyoutell...
- 任务型阅读Whatdoyouwanttobewhenyougrowup?It'sadifficultquest...
- 任务型阅读Whatdoyouwanttobewhenyougrowup?It'sadifficultquest...
- “Idon'tfeelrightaboutthis,”Isaidtooneofmycousinsinalow...
- “Idon'tfeelrightaboutthis,”Isaidtooneofmycousinsinalow...