Impressionism is a form of art that began in the 1870’s. When you look closely at an impressionist painting, you see little dots of different colored paints.
When you move away from the picture, the dots of colors blend together and the p
ainting looks like it has light playing on the people and objects in the picture
. Impressionist art is different from traditional art. Traditional painters
were interested in the form of objects. The impressionists were interested in light
and color. The impressionist painters wanted to paint natural light that was lively
and bright. They tried to express the feeling of pure sunshine in their paintings.
When traditional artists mixed paints, they could not create the feeling of bright,
natural light. Therefore, instead of mixing colors, the impressionists used small dots of pure colors. The viewers’ eyes put these unmixed colors together the same way they add color in light together. When you look at an impressionist painting,
it feels the same as when you look at an object in lively, natural sunlight.
Traditional painters worked inside. Impressionist painters worked outside
because they wanted to paint the effect of sunlight on objects. Monet, for example, made a series of paintings of a haystack. Every morning he went to a field with eight
or ten paintings. All day, he sat in front of a haystack painting. Every hour he
worked on a different picture. All of these paintings are pictures of the haystack,
but they do not look the same. Monet made his paintings directly from the changing
of nature, especially from different hours of sunlight. His study of the haystack
is an hourbyhour record of the artistry（藝術(shù)性） of light.
Questions:
1. Why are there many dots on an impressionist painting?
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2. If an impressionist painter draws an apple, what part of the
apple will attract the painter’s attention most?
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3. What do traditional painters fail to do?
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4. By saying that traditional painters worked inside, we can con
clude that they ignore ____________________________________________
5. Why did Monet work on a different picture every hour?
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答案部分
短文大意
本文主要介紹印象派繪畫的特點(diǎn)。印象派繪畫起源于十九世紀(jì)七十年代，與傳統(tǒng)繪畫藝術(shù)
不同：傳統(tǒng)派重在表現(xiàn)物體的形態(tài)；而印象派則強(qiáng)調(diào)物
體外表的光與色，他們用不同顏色的純色小點(diǎn)使人們視線離開繪畫后自然形成一種栩栩如生的自然界光與色著物的美好畫景。法
國畫家莫內(nèi)曾經(jīng)就干草堆做了一系列繪畫，表現(xiàn)各個(gè)不同時(shí)辰太陽光在干草堆上不同的光影之美。
When you move away from the picture, the dots of colors blend together and the p
ainting looks like it has light playing on the people and objects in the picture
. Impressionist art is different from traditional art. Traditional painters
were interested in the form of objects. The impressionists were interested in light
and color. The impressionist painters wanted to paint natural light that was lively
and bright. They tried to express the feeling of pure sunshine in their paintings.
When traditional artists mixed paints, they could not create the feeling of bright,
natural light. Therefore, instead of mixing colors, the impressionists used small dots of pure colors. The viewers’ eyes put these unmixed colors together the same way they add color in light together. When you look at an impressionist painting,
it feels the same as when you look at an object in lively, natural sunlight.
Traditional painters worked inside. Impressionist painters worked outside
because they wanted to paint the effect of sunlight on objects. Monet, for example, made a series of paintings of a haystack. Every morning he went to a field with eight
or ten paintings. All day, he sat in front of a haystack painting. Every hour he
worked on a different picture. All of these paintings are pictures of the haystack,
but they do not look the same. Monet made his paintings directly from the changing
of nature, especially from different hours of sunlight. His study of the haystack
is an hourbyhour record of the artistry（藝術(shù)性） of light.
Questions:
1. Why are there many dots on an impressionist painting?
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
2. If an impressionist painter draws an apple, what part of the
apple will attract the painter’s attention most?
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
3. What do traditional painters fail to do?
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
4. By saying that traditional painters worked inside, we can con
clude that they ignore ____________________________________________
5. Why did Monet work on a different picture every hour?
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
答案部分
短文大意
本文主要介紹印象派繪畫的特點(diǎn)。印象派繪畫起源于十九世紀(jì)七十年代，與傳統(tǒng)繪畫藝術(shù)
不同：傳統(tǒng)派重在表現(xiàn)物體的形態(tài)；而印象派則強(qiáng)調(diào)物
體外表的光與色，他們用不同顏色的純色小點(diǎn)使人們視線離開繪畫后自然形成一種栩栩如生的自然界光與色著物的美好畫景。法
國畫家莫內(nèi)曾經(jīng)就干草堆做了一系列繪畫，表現(xiàn)各個(gè)不同時(shí)辰太陽光在干草堆上不同的光影之美。