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  3. Lithography is an art process of printing from a plane surface on which the image to be printed is ink-receptive and the blank a

Lithography is an art process of printing from a plane surface on which the image to be printed is ink-receptive and the blank a

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问题     Lithography is an art process of printing from a plane surface on which the image to be printed is ink-receptive and the blank area ink-repellent. Lithography is based on the antipathy of oil and water. A drawing is made in reverse on the ground surface of the stone with a crayon or ink that contains soap or grease. The image produced on the stone will accept printing ink and reject water. Once the grease in the ink has penetrated the stone, the drawing is washed off and the stone kept moist. It is then inked with a roller and printed on a lithographic press. As a process, lithography is probably the most unrestricted, allowing a wide range of tones and effects. Several hundred fine prints can be taken from a stone.  The medium was employed by many 19th century artists, including Goya, Delacroix, Daumier, Degas, and remains popular with contemporary artists. Among American artists noted for their lithographs are Currier and Ives.
    The Currier and Ives firm of lithographers was founded by Nathaniel Currier in 1834. James Ives joined the firm as a bookkeeper eighteen years later just after becoming Currier’s brother-in- law, and was made a partner in 1857. The pair showed an uncanny ability to predict what the American public would rush to buy in the way of cheap art, and literally hundreds of thousands of prints from as many as 7,000 individual pictures were named out and sold from the firm’s shop in lower New York by street vendors and over shop counters throughout the country and even in Europe. Though in the course of time the firm employed some of America’s finest artists, artistic excellence could certainly not be counted among the firm’s real goals. Nevertheless, some time after it went out of business in 1907, the prints enjoyed new popularity as collectors’ items, the rarer examples fetching thousands of dollars in the 1920’s.
In terms of artistic printing ,lithography can be best described as being very
选项 A、costly
B、vulgar
C、prolific
D、surrealistic
答案C
解析 本题为细节辨析及词义理解题。costly 意为“昂贵的”；vulgar意为“粗俗的”；prolific意为“多产的，丰富的”；surrealistic 意为“超现实主义的”。文章第二段提到，有多达七千幅的绘画作品被印制成数以万计的图片，并且从该公司售出，提到这是一种 cheap art(廉价的艺术)。由此可见，C 选项正确。
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