Every artist knows in his heart that he

问题单项选择题

Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something which has not been said before. He hopes the public will listen and understand—he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him.
What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist.
Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and repose; their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary artists might say that they merely choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose entirely without reference to the character of their subjects.
If one painter chooses to paint a gangrenous leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something, showing us something, emphasizing something m all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to teach us.

Implied but not stated, ______ .

A．a painting is more easily understood than a symphony

B．art is merely the arranging of shape and color

C．every artist tries to say something to the public

D．one must look beyond shape and color to find what the artist is saying

答案

参考答案：D

解析：

[分析]：推断题型从第一段可看出作者讲的是：每一个画家都从内心深处了解自己想要对公众说些什么；而且他们不光是想说，还想说些以前没有人说过的东西；画家希望公众能倾听和理解他们；第四段又讲到尽管画家选择的主题各不相同(但只是表现形式不一样罢了)，但有意无意地都希望能教育大众，且希望大家能倾听和理解；由此可推断出本文表达的是人们应从画家作品上看出除图形和颜色之外，画家想要表达的意思。因此D为答案。