新GRE阅读理解36套每日讨论--31（群178674184）

普渡哥

   All of Francoise Duparc‘s surviving paintings blend
   portraiture and genre. Her subjects appear to be acquain-
   tances whom she has asked to pose; she has captured
   both their self-consciousness and the spontaneity of their
5 everyday activities, the depiction of which characterizes
   genre painting. But genre painting, especially when it
   portrayed members of the humblest classes, was never
   popular in eighteenth-century France. The Le Nain
   brothers and Georges de La Tour, who also chose such
10 themes, were largely ignored. Their present high standing
   is due to a different, more democratic political climate
   and to different aesthetic values: we no longer require
   artists to provide ideal images of humanity for our moral
   edification but rather regard such idealization as a falsifi-
15 cation of the truth. Duparc gives no improving message
   and discreetly refrains from judging her subjects. In brief,
   her works neither elevate nor instruct. This restraint
   largely explains her lack of popular success during her
   lifetime, even if her talent did not go completely unrecog-
20 nized by her eighteenth-century French contemporaries.


7. According to the passage, modern viewers are not
likely to value which of the following qualities in a
painting?
(A) The technical elements of the painting
(B) The spontaneity of the painting
(C) The moral lesson imparted by the painting
(D) The degree to which the painting realistically
depicts its subject
(E) The degree to which the artist‘s personality is
revealed in the painting


8. If the history of Duparc‘s artistic reputation were
to follow that of the Le Nain brothers and Georges
de La Tour, present-day assessments of her work
would be likely to contain which of the following?
(A) An evaluation that accords high status to her
work
(B) Acknowledgement of her technical expertise
but dismissal of her subject matter as trivial
(C) Agreement with assessments made in her own
time but acknowledgements of the excep-
tional quality of a few of her paintings
(D) Placement of her among the foremost artists of
her century
(E) A reclassification of her work as portraiture
rather than genre painting


9. Select the sentence in the passage in which the author
indicates that aesthetic judgments can be influenced
by the political beliefs of those making the judgment.

sbhsy

b a Their present high standing...

josie0710

C
E
Their present high standing
  is due to a different, more democratic political climate
  and to different aesthetic values: we no longer require
  artists to provide ideal images of humanity for our moral
  edification but rather regard such idealization as a falsifi-
  cation of the truth.

hanzhenhuayou

b a  their present high standing  is due to a different, more democratic political climate  and todifferent aesthetic values: we no

普渡哥

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普渡哥

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bontravail

C  A their present high standing is ...

元宝盒子

C A  their present high standing is ...

普渡哥

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