西方文化导论Unit12

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Multiple choice. 3. _________refers to a kind of usually avant-garde or conceptual art as early as in the 1960s, which often challenges the audience to think in new and unconventional ways. A. Performance art
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Multiple choice. (1) Impressionism got its name from ________famous painting Impression: Sunrise. A. Pissarro’s B. Monet’s
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performance art 行为艺术: A term referring to a kind of usually avant-garde or conceptual art which grew out of the visual arts and began to be identified in the 1960s. Performance art is unconventional and often challenges the audience to think in new and unconventional ways.
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True or false questions. __ T 1. Cinema has greatly changed the ways of living in the West since its invention by Thomas Edison in 1894. __ F 2. Hollywood consolidated and expanded its position by producing more popular films after the 1970s, which was called its “Golden Age”. __ T 3. The role of TV is an important link between the individual and the public or social side of life. __ F 4. The major four Western agencies are: Associated Press, BBC, Reuters and Press de France Nouvelle. __ T 5. Jazz was initially influenced by two kinds of Negro music: ragtime and blues.
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True or false questions. F 1. The end of the two world wars brought real sense of security __ and stability to the West. T 2. In the midst of the 1950s and 1960s, Western society was on __ the threshold of drastic transformation from the phase of postwar recovery to an industrial and commercial boom. __ T 3. Postmodernism is both an reaction against modernism and a successor to modernism. T 4. Existentialism had widespread dissemination and acclaim after __ WWII. F 5. In the post-war period, Protestantism has become more open __ and more popular to the public, while Catholicism has stuck to conventions.
C. van Gogh’s
D. Paul Gauguin’s
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Multiple choice. 2. __________is called “the father of the modern painting”. A. Paul Gauguin B. Paul Cezanne C. van Gogh D. Degas
B. Impressionism
C. Photo-realism
D. Futurism
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Multiple choice. 4. Which of the following artists does not belong to the school of Impressionism in painting? A. Manet. B. Monet. C. Cezanne. D. Piccasso.
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Fill in the blanks. 1. _________ New York became a new centre of world art during and after the WWII, taking over from Paris. 2. One of the representative of abstract expressionism is Hans Hofmann, who benefited from the movements like cubism, _______ fauvism and expressionism. expressionism . ___________________ 3. Action painting is a branch of abstract Minimal art is an art form which purports to pursue a 4. __________ completely pure and perfect quality of art by reducing its art creation to its mere natural attributes. Pop art intends to set up a style of impersonality by 5. _______ employing the imagery of commercialized art or other art forms of the mass media.
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Multiple choice. 5. Who initiated the ideals of the expressionist movement in modern music? A. Arnold Schoenberg. B. Igor Stravinsky. C. Claude Debussy. D. Paul Hindemith.