【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文] We're now going to spend some time, class, talking about the most revolutionary, the most amazing artist in the history of Modem Western art. Do you know who I'm talking about? Of course it's Pablo Picasso. He was the artist who invented Cubism, and he was the artist who experimented with more styles and media than probably any other artist in history, with the possible exception of Leonardo da Vinci. And what I'm passing out to you now are figures of some of Picasso's most famous and most revolutionary paintings. 1901 to 1904 is known as Plcasso's 'Blue Period', when he was a starving artist and sometimes had to bum his own drawings to keep warm. All his paintings during this period were done in grave shades of blue, and they depicted thin, depressed figures, beggars and homeless people. If you look at the handout I gave you, you'll see an example of his Blue Period—The Old Guitarist, painted in 1903. Not a very happy looking fellow, is he? From 1904, then, to 1905, Picasso passed through his 'Rose Period', when he began to use warmer, more tender colours—and his subjects became circus performers and clowns. You can see his most famous painting from this period on the sheet. You'll notice, though, that this quiet group of circus performers still look alienated and uncommunicative, though they are treated more kindly than he treated the old guitar player. All of Picasso's paintings were rather two-dimensional up to this point, but then he began exploring pictorial volume, and this led to one of his most revolutionary works, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, which he painted in 1917. This is usually considered the first Cubist painting. You can see how Picasso reduces the ladies' figures to a series of wide, intersecting planes. In this way, they suggest a multiple view of the world. This was a radically new, abstract pictorial language. In my handout, you'll also find some other examples of how Picasso's Cubism developed between 1907 and 1921—Woman with a Guitar is from 1912, for instance, and Three Musicians which is a masterpiece of his later 'synthetic cubism' style, was painted in 1921. You can see in the Three Musicians how Picasso's works have become much broader and more simple, and how they exploit colour so much more. By 1945, Picasso was well established as one of the great masters of modem art, but he continued to experiment with styles and techniques throughout his life. We'll be looking at him again later in the term, when we examine Cubism and other modem visual movements in more detail. Why does the lecturer mention Leonardo da Vinci? 本段录音第1小题选项中重复出现的Picasso以及art，artist和第2小题选项中的作品名称表明，录音很可能与毕加索本人或其作品有关。 选项均为由as引导的名词短语，结合其中重复出现的Picasso以及measure，art，key figure，artist可知，本题可能考查文中所提人物或例子对毕加索或其作品的影响。教授在谈及毕加索在艺术上的高深之处时提到，毕加索尝试过很多种风格和媒体的结合，这可能是历史上除了达·芬奇之外，其他艺术家无法能比的。由此可知，教授在此提到达·芬奇是为了正明毕加索的作品之多，范围之广，故答案为A。