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In 1993, artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid oversaw an international poll of artistic preferences. In every nation surveyed, the overwhelmingly favored subjects for painting were lush landscape vistas with trees, hills, water, human figures, and animals. Oddly, this held even for nations without natural terrain or cultural traditions conducive to such paintings. Melamid concluded that the modernist dream of creating universal art through geometric abstraction had been misguided-the artistic subject with truly universal appeal is the landscape.
Art critic Arthur Danto hypothesized that worldwide, calendars depicting landscapes have influenced most people’s concepts of art. In other words, aesthetic indoctrination by the global calendar industry could explain the survey results. But since calendars with other imagery are also available, the question of why calendars with landscapes are especially popular remains.
Perhaps the preference for lush landscapes is not a social construct, but rather an evolved human instinct. Our Paleolithic ancestors would have been more likely to survive if they had been attracted to areas with water to drink, vegetation and wildlife to eat, and hills that provided vantage points and hiding places. Thus those who instinctively preferred such landscapes would have had more offspring survive, spreading this aesthetic preference through the human population
文章如上，第六题问题如下，但是答案到底是A还是E呢？ 国外网站说是A 但是我看整理出的jj答案说是E。
高亮部分我也不清楚，但大概就是 oddly这句 后面的部分。
RC6:
The passage most clearly implies that the cultural traditions mentioned in the first paragraph
(see highlighted text)
A. do not fully determine the aesthetic preferences of most people with those traditions
B. conflict with a dream of creating universal art
C. have been altered by corporate aesthetic indoctrination
D. reflect the instinctive aesthetic preferences that evolved among our Paleolithic ancestors
E. are conducive to creating aesthetically appealing paintings of subjects other than landscapes
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