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  3. Modern technology and science have produced a wealth of new materials and new ways of using old materials. For the artist this m

Modern technology and science have produced a wealth of new materials and new ways of using old materials. For the artist this m

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问题      Modern technology and science have produced a wealth of new materials and new ways of using old materials. For the artist this means wider opportunities. There is no doubt that the limitations of materials and nature of tools both restrict and shape a man’s work. Observe how the development of plastics and light metals along with new methods of welding has changed the direction of sculpture. Transparent plastic materials allow one to look through an object, to see its various sides superimposed on each other (as in Cubism or in an X-ray). Today, welding is as prevalent as casting was in the past. This new method encourages open designs, where surrounding and intervening space becomes as important as form itself.
     More ambiguous than other scientific inventions familiar to modern artists, but no less influential, are the psychoanalytic studies of Freud and his followers, discoveries that have infiltrated recent art, especially Surrealism. The Surrealists, in their struggle to escape the monotony and frustrations of everyday life, claimed that dreams were the only hope. Turning to the irrational world of their unconscious, they banished all time barriers and moral judgements to combine disconnected dream experiences from the past, present and intervening psychological states. The Surrealists were concerned with overlapping emotions more than with overlapping forms. Their paintings often become segmented capsules of associative experiences. For them, obsessive and often unrelated images replaced the direct emotional message of expressionism. They did not need to smash paint and canvas; they went beyond this to smash the whole continuity of logical thought.
     There is little doubt that contemporary art has taken much from contemporary life. In a period when science has made revolutionary strides, artists in their studios have not been unaware of scientists in their laboratories. But this has rarely been a one-way street. Painters and sculptors, though admittedly influenced by modern science, have also molded and changed our world. If break-up has been a vital part of their expression, it has not always been a symbol of destruction. Quite the contrary: it has been used to examine more fully, to penetrate more deeply, to analyze more thoroughly, to enlarge, isolate and make more familiar certain aspects of life that earlier we were apt to neglect. In addition, it sometimes provides rich multiple experiences so organized as not merely to reflect our world, but in fact to interpret it.
The sentence" But this has rarely been a one-way street." in the last paragraph means that ______.
选项 A、contemporary art has been nourished by modern science
B、modern science has been nourished by art
C、artists can become scientists and scientists can become artists
D、the impacts of modem art and science are actually mutual
答案D
解析 细节理解题。此题考查的是对句意的理解。这句话的意思是“但这几乎从来就不是单行道”。联系上下文，这句话是说明科学与艺术之间的影响不是单方面的，而是相互的。A项和B项的说法都是单方面的，不全面的；C项意思是艺术家可以成为科学家，科学家也可以成为艺术家，理解有偏差；D项的mutual一词意思是“相互的”，正确表达了句意，故选D。
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