2014 英语二 阅读B 真题 解析
2014-01-04 22:19阅读：
Part B
Uncommon Ground – Land Art in
Britain
The term Land Art brings to mind
epic interventions in the land such as Robert Smithson’s Spiral
Jetty, 6,500 tons of basalt, earth and salt projecting into Utah’s
Great Salt Lake, or Roden Crater, an extinct volcano in Arizona,
which James Turrell has been transforming into an immense naked-eye
observatory since 1979.
Richard Long’s A Line Made By Walking, however,
involved nothing more strenuous than a 20-minute train ride from
Waterloo. Having got off somewhere in suburbia, the artist walked
backwards and forwards over a piece of grass until the squashed
turf formed a line – a kind of drawing on the
land.
Emerging in the late Sixties and reaching a peak in the
Seventies, Land Art was one of a range of new forms, including Body
Art, Performance Art, Action Art and In
stallation Art, which pushed
art beyond the traditional confines of the
studio and gallery. Rather than portraying landscape, land artists
used the physical substance of the land itself as their
medium.
The message of this survey of British land art – the
most comprehensive to date – is that the British variant, typified
by Long’s piece, was not only more domestically scaled, but a lot
quirkier than its American counterpart. Indeed, while you might
assume that an exhibition of Land Art would consist only of records
of works rather than the works themselves, Long’s photograph of his
work is the work. Since his “action” is in the past the photograph
is its sole embodiment.
That might seem rather an obscure point, but it sets
the tone for an exhibition that contains a lot of black-and-white
photographs and relatively few natural objects.
Long is Britain’s best-known Land Artist and his Stone
Circle, a perfect ring of purplish rocks from Portishead beach laid
out on the gallery floor, represents the elegant, rarefied side of
the form. The Boyle Family, on the other hand, stand for its dirty,
urban aspect. Comprising artists Mark Boyle and Joan Hills and
their children, they recreated random sections of the British
landscape on gallery walls. Their Olaf Street Study, a square of
brick-strewn waste ground, is one of the few works here to embrace
the mundanity that characterises most of our experience of the
landscape most of the time.
Parks feature, particularly in the earlier works, such
as John Hilliard’s very funny Across the Park, in which a
long-haired stroller is variously smiled at by a pretty girl and
unwittingly assaulted in a sequence of images that turn out to be
different parts of the same photograph.
Generally however British land artists preferred to get
away from towns, gravitating towards landscapes that are
traditionally considered beautiful such as the Lake District or the
Wiltshire Downs. While it probably wasn’t apparent at the time,
much of this work is permeated by a spirit of romantic escapism
that the likes of Wordsworth would have readily understood. Derek
Jarman’s yellow-tinted film Towards Avebury, a collection of long,
mostly still shots of the Wiltshire landscape, evokes a tradition
of English landscape painting stretching from Samuel Palmer to Paul
Nash.
In the case of Hamish Fulton, you can’t help feeling
that the Scottish artist has simply found a way of making his love
of walking pay. A typical work, such as Seven Days, consists of a
single beautiful black-and-white photograph taken on an epic walk,
with the mileage and number of days taken listed beneath. British
Land Art as shown in this well selected, but relatively modestly
scaled exhibition wasn’t about imposing on the landscape, more a
kind of landscape-orientated light conceptual art created passing
through. It had its origins in the great outdoors, but the results
were as gallery-bound as the paintings of Turner and
Constable.
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[A] originates from a long
walk that the artist took
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41. Stone
Circle
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[B] illustrates a kind of
landscape-orientated light conceptual art
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42. Olaf Street
Study
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[C] reminds people of the
English landscape painting tradition.
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43. Across the
Park
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[D] represents the
elegance of the British land art
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44. Towards
Avebury
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[E] depicts the ordinary
side of the British land art
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45. Seven
days
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[F] embodies a romantic
escape into the Scottish outdoors
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[G] contains images from
different parts of the same photograph.
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41题选D：对应原文“Long
is Britain’s best-known Land Artist and his Stone
Circle, a perfect ring of purplish rocks from Portishead beach
laid out on the gallery floor, represents the elegant,
rarefied side of the
form.”（朗是英国最著名的“土地艺术家”，他的作品“石环”所用石头是来自于波蒂斯黑德海滩，展示在画廊的地板上，体现了该类作品优雅和稀缺的一面）
D选项represents the
elegance of the British land
art（体现了英国土地艺术中的优雅的特点），其中represent对应文中represent，elegance
对应文中elegant,
British对应文中Britain’s, land
art对应文中Land Artist.
42题选E：对应原文“Their
Olaf Street Study, a square of brick-strewn waste ground, is
one of the few works here to embrace the mundanity
(尘俗) that characterises most of our
experience of the landscape most of the time.
E选项 depicts the ordinary side of
the British land art，其中ordinary
side是对原文mundanity和most
of our experience的概括。
43题选G: 对应原文“Parks feature,
particularly in the earlier works, such as John Hilliard’s very
funny Across the Park, in which a long-haired stroller is
variously smiled at by a pretty girl and unwittingly assaulted in a
sequence of images that turn out to be different parts of the same
photograph.” G选项contains images from
different parts of the same
photograph，其中contain对应原文in which, images
from different parts of the same
photograph与原文一致。
44题选C：对应原文
“Derek Jarman’s yellow-tinted film Towards
Avebury, a collection of long, mostly still shots of the
Wiltshire landscape, evokes（唤起） a
tradition of English landscape painting stretching from Samuel
Palmer to Paul
Nash.”C选项reminds
people of the English landscape painting
tradition，其中reminds对应原文evokes，English
landscape painting tradition对应a tradition
of English landscape painting.
45题选A：对应原文
“…you can’t help feeling that the Scottish artist has simply
found a way of making his love of walking pay. A typical work, such
as Seven Days, consists of a single beautiful
black-and-white photograph taken on an epic walk, …”
A选项originates from a long walk that the
artist took，其中a long walk
对应原文walking和epic walk
(远足)，the artist
took对应原文find a way of making
his love of walking
pay（找一种办法让他尝到了酷爱步行的回报），说明该艺术家喜欢步行，并在途中创作出作品。
