单选题
The brush is held in a vertical position, and no
part of the hand touches the paper or silk. Controlled flexibility of the wrist
is therefore of great importance, and can be attained only after constant and
intensive practice. Experience in handling the brush usually comes in the course
of learning to write and in its subsequent daily use. When the brush is applied
in painting, the habit of practicing the strokes is still indispensable to
attaining skill and ease. The emphasis on brushstrokes led to the preference for
line and to the attention given to linear rhythm. Line is the primary means of
expressing movement. Line in relation to space creates rhythm in the composition
and also represents the inner rhythm and harmony of the young line on the yin
paper, of yang expression across yin space, of light (yang) and dark (yin) tones
in the line itself. Full appreciation of Chinese painting thus depends a great
deal on the spectator's sensibility to the tempo of the brush, following it with
eye and imagination as it dots, flicks, or moves forward, sweeping, turning,
lifting, plunging, thinning out, swelling, sometimes stopping abruptly,
sometimes crouching to leap again. It has often been remarked that the brush
dances and the ink sings. Calligraphy at its finest and most expressive is
indeed the dance of the brush and ink at its highest point of achievement, when
movment, vitality, rhythm, and harmony are uppermost and the intellectual
content of the written characters purposely is abandoned in the swift rendering
of them by the perfectly disciplined and therefore completely free brush.
Absolutely natural and spontaneous (tzu jan) brushwork is like the flight of a
bird. And works of calligraphy of this caliber might truly be described as the
prime examples of abstract art.
单选题
We can learn from the text that using a brush to write can be mastered
by ______ .
A. one writing course
B. long time practice
C. the composition
D. expressing movement
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】
单选题
"The flight of a bird" in "Absolutely natural and spontaneous brushwork
is like the flight of the bird" denots a moment ______ .
A. careless and imprudent
B. random and aimless
C. light but sophisticated
D. natural but static
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】
单选题
Even though a definition of art has not been given by the author but
with consideration on such key descriptions as "controlled flexibility" (line
2), "perfectly disciplined" (line 25), "tempo of the brush" (15-16) and many
often striking examples, one can easily perceive that art in the author's
implied perspectives is ______ .
A. basically an imitation
B. the represented itself
C. the representation represented
D. the imitation imitated
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】
单选题
The "dance of brush and ink" with which the Chinese calligraphy is made
denotes ______ .
A. the Chinese calligraphy and the art of dancing
B. the artist's ability to design dancing on his calligraphy
C. the disciplined artistical imagination of the artist
D. the incidental resemblance of writing and dancing
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】
单选题
The works of Chinese calligraphy are considered as "abstract art"
because ______ .
A. Chinese calligraphy is abstract in essence
B. the artist's mind does not follow fixed roles
C. all works of art are abstract
D. artistic spontaneity is related to abstractness