Emerging in the late Sixties and reaching a peak in the Seventies, Land Art was one of a range of new forms, including Body Art, Performance Art, Action Art and Installation Art, which pushed art beyond the traditional confines of the studio and gallery. Rather than portraying landscape, land artists used the physical substance of the land itself as their medium.
The British land art, typified by Richard Long’s piece, was not only more domestically scaled, but a lot quirkier than its American counterpart. Indeed, while you might assume that an exhibition of Land Art would consist only of records of works rather than the works themselves, Long’s photograph of his work is the work. Since his “action” is in the past, the photograph is its sole embodiment.
That might seem rather an obscure point, but it sets the tone for an exhibition that contains a lot of black- and-white photographs and relatively few natural objects.
Long is Britain’s best-known Land Artist and his Stone Circle, a perfect ring of purplish rocks from Portis- head beach laid out on the gallery floor, represents the elegant, rarefied side of the form. The Boyle Family, on the other hand, stands for its dirty, urban aspect. Comprising artists Mark Boyle and Joan Hills and their children, they recreated random sections of the British landscape on gallery walls. Their Olaf Street Study, a square of brick-strewn waste ground, is one of the few works here to embrace the commonplaceness that characterises most of our experience of the landscape most of the time.
Parks feature, particularly in the earlier works, such as John Hilliard’s very funny Across the Park, in which a long-haired stroller is variously smiled at by a pretty girl arid unwittingly assaulted in a sequence of images that turn out to be different parts of the same photograph.
Generally however British land artists preferred to get away from towns, gravitating towards landscapes that are traditionally considered beautiful such as the Lake District or the Wiltshire Downs. While it probably wasn’t apparent at the time, much of this work is permeated by a spirit of romantic escapism that the likes of Wordsworth would have readily understood. Derek Jarman’s yellow-tinted film Towards Avebury, a collection of long, mostly still shots of the Wiltshire landscape, evokes a tradition of English landscape painting stretching from
Samuel Palmer to Paul Nash.
In the case of Hamish Fulton, you can’t help feeling that the Scottish artist has simply found a way of making his love of walking pay. A typical work, such as Seven Days, consists of a single beautiful black-and-white photograph taken on an epic walk, with the mileage and number of days taken listed beneath. British Land Art as shown in this well selected, but relatively modestly scaled exhibition wasn’t about imposing on the landscape, more a kind of landscape-orientated light conceptual art created passing through. It had its origins in the great outdoors, but the results were as gallery-bound as the paintings of Turner and Constable.
1.Stone Circle （ ）
2.Olaf Street Study （ ）
3.Across the Park （ ）
4.Towards Avebury （ ）
5.Seven Days （ ）
问题1选项
A.originates from a long walk that the artist took.
B.illustrates a kind of landscape-orientated light conceptual art.
C.reminds people of the English landscape painting tradition.
D.represents the elegance of the British land art.
E.depicts the ordinary side of the British land art.
F.embodies a romantic escape into the Scottish outdoors.
G.contains images from different parts of the same photograph.
问题2选项
A.originates from a long walk that the artist took.
B.illustrates a kind of landscape-orientated light conceptual art.
C.reminds people of the English landscape painting tradition.
D.represents the elegance of the British land art.
E.depicts the ordinary side of the British land art.
F.embodies a romantic escape into the Scottish outdoors.
G.contains images from different parts of the same photograph.
问题3选项
A.originates from a long walk that the artist took.
B.illustrates a kind of landscape-orientated light conceptual art.
C.reminds people of the English landscape painting tradition.
D.represents the elegance of the British land art.
E.depicts the ordinary side of the British land art.
F.embodies a romantic escape into the Scottish outdoors.
G.contains images from different parts of the same photograph.
问题4选项
A.originates from a long walk that the artist took.
B.illustrates a kind of landscape-orientated light conceptual art.
C.reminds people of the English landscape painting tradition.
D.represents the elegance of the British land art.
E.depicts the ordinary side of the British land art.
F.embodies a romantic escape into the Scottish outdoors.
G.contains images from different parts of the same photograph.
问题5选项
A.originates from a long walk that the artist took.
B.illustrates a kind of landscape-orientated light conceptual art.
C.reminds people of the English landscape painting tradition.
D.represents the elegance of the British land art.
E.depicts the ordinary side of the British land art.
F.embodies a romantic escape into the Scottish outdoors.
G.contains images from different parts of the same photograph.
第1题:D
第2题:E
第3题:G
第4题:C
第5题:A
第1题:
1.根据左栏专有名词Stone Circle可定位到第4段第一句："…his Stone Circle，a perfect ring of...，represents the elegant，rarefied side of the form.他的作品 Stone Circle 体现了该艺术形式（the form 指代地景艺术）优雅和阳春白雪的一面。D项the elegance对应原文the elegant, rarefied side， D 项 the British land art对应原文 the form，正确。
第2题:
根据左栏专有名词Olaf Street Study可定位到第4段第四句：Their Olaf Street Study, a square of".，is one of the few works here to embrace the commonplaceness that characterises most of our experience of the landscape most of the time.他们的作品Olaf Street Study是这里为数不多的贴近世俗生活的作品之一，刻画了我们大多数时间里对景观的主要感受。E项 depicts‘描绘’对应原文embrace‘贴近’或characterises‘刻画’，E项the ordinary side对应原文 the commonplaceness‘世俗生活’，所以E项正确。
第3题:
根据左栏专有名词Across the Park可定位到第5段：…such as John Hilliard’s very funny Across the Park，J in which a long-haired stroller is variously smiled at by a pretty girl and unwittingly assaulted in a sequence of images that turn out to be different parts of the same photograph.在这部作品的一系列图像中，一个漂亮女孩对一个长发的流浪汉不时地报以微笑，而流浪汉莫名其妙地遭到攻击，这些图像其实是同一张照片的不同部分。G项images ‘图像’对应原文a sequence of images‘一系列图像’，G项from different parts of the same photograph‘来自同一张照片的不同部分’对应原文that turn out to be different parts of the same photograph‘这些图像其实是同一张照片的不同部分’，所以G项正确。
第4题:
根据左栏专有名词Towards Avebury可定位到第6段第三句：Derek Jarman’s... Towards Avebury，
a collection of... evokes a tradition of English landscape painting". Derek Jarman 的影片 Towards Avebury唤起了……英国风景画的传统。C项reminds people‘提醒人们记起’对应原文evokes‘唤起’，C项the English landscape painting tradition‘英国风景画的传统’对应原文a tradition of English landscape painting‘英国风景画的传统’，所以C项正确。
第5题:
根据左栏专有名词Seven Days可回文定位到第7段第二句：...such as Seven Days, consists of a…photograph taken on an epic walk…Seven Days这幅作品是一张拍摄于一次史诗般徒步之旅的照片。A项originates from“源自于”对应原文taken“被拍摄于”，A项a long walk“一次长途步行”对应原文an epic walk “一次史诗般的徒步之旅”，所以A项正确。
