答案:
22(B)
开篇介绍一种对Luminist/landscape painting的view,然后转入“What this view fails to do is to identify the true significance of this transcendental atmosphere in Luminist paintings.”并通过Lane例证commercial activity在painting中的反映,即
“the way one artist’s work illustrates a tradition of painting”
23(E)
根据“nature is portrayed in Lane’s pictures”定位原文
“Lane usually depicts places like New York Harbor, with ships at anchor (at anchor: (船)抛锚, 停泊着), but even when he depicts more remote, less commercially active harbors, nature appears pastoral and domesticated rather than primitive or unexplored.”
即
“subordinate to human concerns”
24(D)
原文信息有
“From 1848 until his death in 1865,
Lane lived in a house with a view of the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and he made short trips to Maine, New York, Baltimore, and probably Puerto Rico. In all of these places he painted the harbors with their ships—the instruments of expanding trade”作者详述Lane的经历就是了为说明Lane的painting中的商业元素—ship
“Knowing about the environment in which an artist lived can aid in an understanding of a work by that artist”
25(C)
根据“a supporter of the view of Luminism described in the first paragraph”定位原文
“the Luminists are distinguished by their focus on atmosphere and light. The accepted view of Luminist paintings is that they are basically spiritual and imply a tranquil mysticism that contrasts with earlier American artists’ concept of nature as dynamic and energetic. According to this view, the Luminist atmosphere, characterized by “pure and constant light,” guides the onlooker toward a lucid transcendentalism, an idealized vision of the world.”与此相近表述为
“interpret the Luminist depiction of nature incorrectly”
26(B)
根据“the sea is significant in Lane’s paintings”定位原文
“For Lane the sea is, in effect, a canal or a trade route for commercial activity, not a free powerful element, as it is in the early pictures of his predecessor, Cole”,即
“commerce”
27(B)
根据“author’s primary purpose”,结合第一题分析,可知
“replace an inadequate analysis”
28(E)
根据“a critic writing about Lane”定位原文
“One critic, in describing the spiritual quality of harbor scenes by Fitz Hugh Lane, an important Luminist, carefully notes that “at the peak of Luminist development in the 1850s and 1860s, spiritualism in America was extremely widespread.” It is also true, however, that the 1850s and 1860s were a time of trade expansion.”作者是在反驳critic的说法
“illustrate a common misconception concerning an important characteristic of Lane’s paintings”