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重庆市2021-2022学年(上)10月月度质量检测
高一英语
学校:___________姓名:___________班级:___________考号:___________
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一、阅读理解(本大题共15小题,共30.0分)
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What makes Pablo Picasso such a great 20th-century artist?It's partly down to the visual ground he broke with his painting techniques,but some also has lo do with the fact that his interests extended far beyond painting.
Picasso's innovations in perspective and technique were highly spoken of in the art world for decades,paving the way for many of the important artistic movements of the last century.As art historians and critics emphasize the great achievement he made with his Cubist painting,Picasso's poetry and other written works are often overlooked in discussions of his long and varied career.The artist did not begin to write until the age of 53.His literary endeavors resulted in hundreds of poems with a unique fusion(融合)of words and visual imagery.
A recent exhibition tour,organized by the Instituto Cervantes and the Museo Picasso Malaga,frames Picasso as a poet and analyzes his fascination with Chinese art forms through a variety of documents and photos.A newly produced documentary,screened at the exhibition hall,offers visitors a comprehensive view on Picasso's poems. "In this documentary of 30 minutes,you will discover how experts and lovers of Picasso think about his poetry," said Jose Lebrero Stals,artistic director of Museo Picasso Malaga.He also talked about Picasso's experiments with poetry,his love for Chinese ink and the interactions between Picasso and a number of Chinese artists. "Picasso said once that 'I was born in Spain.I'm a painter.But if I had been born in China.I would be a poet,'" Lebrero said. "We know he loved Chinese writings and representation,and Picasso was very excited and curious about the old tradition of Chinese calligraphy." In the 1950s,the artist met with a cultural delegation from China and Chinese painter Zhang Daqian in