阅读理解 Questions 40-50 In the years leading up to the First World War, the realist tradition in the United Stateswas given new life within the ranks of the so-called Ashcan School, a term that looselydescribes a group of artists in New York who favored, as the name implies, commonplace subjects, even ones that emphasized the seedy aspects of daily life. In an era when the5 United States was shifting from an agricultural to an industrially based economy, artiststurned to the vitality of the city for their themes, sometimes documenting the lives of thenation's urban inhabitants with a literalness that shocked viewers accustomed to the blandgeneralizations of academic art. Thus, the first modern American revolution in painting inthe early twentieth century was not away from, but toward, realism. The developments toward realism and new pictorial subject matter introduced by this revolution are explained in part by the fact that the academic spirit had become anathemato many young painters by the beginning of the twentieth century, when the professionalsurvival of an artist was largely contingent on membership in the National Academy ofDesign, the American equivalent of the French Academy of Aits. The National Academyof Design perpetuated the Traditions of ftp French Academy, such as annual juried exhibitions. Although it merged with the more tolerant Society of American Artists in1907, it remained steadfastly intolerant of new developments. At the same time, important venues in New York, particularly Alfred Stteglitz's galleryknown as 291 and* in 1913, the gigantic exhibition of modern art known as the Armory20 Show, introduced European modernists to American audiences and nurtured a numberof American artists committed not to realism but to experimental art During the 1930's,the country's focus turned inward, giving rise to new varieties of realist art based onintrinsically American themes. These were practiced by the so-called Regionalists, whorecorded the rural lire of the Midwest, and the more politically engaged Social Realists,who documented the social consequences of extreme economic change. Also a fertileperiod for American photography, the era before the Second World War witnessed the development of photojournalism, as well as social documentary and advertising photography.

单选题 What aspect of twentieth-century art in the United States does the passage mainly discuss?

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单选题 According to the passage, all of the following are characters-tics of the Ashcan School EXCEPT –

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单选题 Which of the following developments in [he art world contributed to a renewal of realism in the early twentieth century?

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单选题 Why docs the author mention the Armory Show in lines 19-20?

单选题 According to the passage, the Regionalist (line 23) were artists who

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