托福阅读艺术类文章该如何解决

在我们的出国语言考试中，艺术历史类背景文本在中多次出现，这样的材料对于大多数理工科同学来说都非常头疼，学生往往会说：翻译成汉语我都不知道这篇文章想表达什么。比如托福TPO40介绍The origins of writing, 提及了Assyrian亚述人；TPO42讲述古希腊雕塑，提到了August屋大维和Michelangelo。

综合TPO中以人类艺术为题材的文章，我们发现，要么分析一种艺术形式在一定时期的存在方式、意义、起源；要么以时间为轴线，分析一种艺术形式的演变进程。中艺术类文章怎么解决？每当同学请教这个问题，我通常会讲“最短平快的见效方法就是记忆学科词汇”，然而当我们把承载着大师们天赋与情感的艺术仅仅用几个抽象名词表示的时候，可能是最拙劣的方法。所以，在时间允许的情况下，如果能接触艺术，适当看几次展览，可能事半功倍。 

比如：
The Exhibition of Michelangelo
Open Time: present -2017.03.20
Location: Modern Art Museum, Beijing Main Road, Pudong New District,Shanghai

再比如，Remembering Antiquity： The Ancient World through

In a rare juxtaposition of antiquities from the Getty Villa and manuscripts from the Museum’s collection, this exhibition explores medieval responses to the ancient world. For more than a thousand years following the fall of Rome (476 A.D.), classical culture lived on in European literature and art. Medieval scribes translated and preserved classical texts, while artists adapted and embellished images of ancient rulers and mythical heroes for inclusion in Christian manuscripts. Although the “rediscovery” of Greek and Roman culture is often associated with the Renaissance, antiquity was never forgotten.

Skylla and Sirens, from Mirror of History ( text in French), Ghent, about 1475,tempera colors, gold leaf, and gold paint on parchment   

Initial P: Alexander the Great Carried A loft by Griffins (detail), from Historic Scholastica, Austria, about 1300.tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment

Coin with Alexander the Great with the Horn of Zeus
Ammon, Greek, minted in Lysimachia, 297-281 BC, silver

The Angel Slaying the Assyrians and the Death of Sennacherib, leaf from a book of Old Testament prophets, Sicily, about 1300, tempera colors and gold on parchment.

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