The Collectors

It can be inferred from the passage that the Arts and...

Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
The Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States was responsible for sweeping changes in attitudes toward the decorative arts, then considered the minor or household arts. Its focus on decorative arts helped to induce United States museums and private collectors to begin collecting furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork, and textiles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The fact that artisans, who were looked on as mechanics or skilled workers in the eighteenth century, are frequently considered artists today is directly attributable to the Arts and Crafts Movement of the nineteenth century. The importance now placed on attractive and harmonious home decoration can also be traced to this period, when Victorian interior arrangements were revised to admit greater light and more freely flowing spaces.
The Arts and Crafts Movement reacts against mechanized processes that threatened handcrafts and resulted in cheapened, monotonous merchandise. Founded in the late nineteenth century by British social critics John Ruskin and William Morris, the movement revered craft as a form of art. In a rapidly industrializing society, most Victorians agreed that art was an essential moral ingredient in the home environment, and in many middle- and working-class homes craft was the only form of art. Ruskin and his followers criticized not only the degradation of artisans reduced to machine operators, but also the impending loss of daily contact with handcrafted objects, fashioned with pride, integrity, and attention to beauty.
In the United States as well as in Great Britain, reformers extolled the virtues of handcrafted objects: simple, straightforward design; solid materials of good quality, and sound, enduring construction techniques. These criteria were interpreted in a variety of styles, ranging from rational and geometric to romantic or naturalistic. Whether abstract, stylized, or realistically treated, the consistent theme in virtually all Arts and Crafts design is nature.
The Arts and Crafts Movement was much more than a particular style; it was a philosophy of domestic life. Proponents believed that if simple design, high-quality materials, and honest construction were realized in the home and its appointments, then the occupants would enjoy moral and therapeutic effects. For both artisan and consumer, the Arts and Crafts doctrine was seen as a magical force against the undesirable effects of industrialization.
It can be inferred from the passage that the Arts and Crafts Movement would have considered all of the following to be artists EXCEPT_______
A. creators of textile designs
B. people who produce handmade glass objects
C. operators of machines that automatically cut legs, for furniture
D. metalworkers who create unique pieces of jewelry
Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu
Giải thích:
Có thể suy ra từ đoạn văn rằng phong trào nghệ thuật và thủ công có lẽ đã coi những người nào dưới đây là nghệ sĩ trừ
A. những người tạo ra thiết kế may dệt
B. người mà sản xuất các đồ bằng kính thủ công
C. những người điều hành máy móc mà tự động cắt chân cho các đồ nội thất
D. công nhân luyện kim người mà tạo ra những mảnh trang sức độc đáo
Thông tin: Its focus on decorative arts helped to induce United States museums and private collectors to begin collecting furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork, and textiles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The fact that artisans, who were looked on as mechanics or skilled workers in the eighteenth century, are frequently considered artists today is directly attributable to the Arts and Crafts Movement of the nineteenth century.
Tạm dịch: Sự tập trung của nó vào nghệ thuật trang trí đã giúp thúc đẩy các viện bảo tàng của Mĩ và nhà sưu tập tư nhân bắt đầu thu thập đồ nội thất, thủy tinh, gốm sứ kim loại và các sản phẩm dệt vào cuối thế kỷ 19 và đầu thế kỷ 20. Việc các nghệ nhân, những người được coi là thợ cơ khí hoặc công nhân lành nghề trong thế kỷ thứ mười tám, thường được coi là nghệ sĩ ngày nay thì trực tiếp liên quan đến phong trào nghệ thuật và thủ công của thế kỷ 19.
Chỉ có đáp án C không được đề cập
Đáp án C.
 

Câu hỏi này có trong đề thi

Quảng cáo

Back
Top