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Listen to an Academic Talk Test #063
Listen to an Academic Talk
1. What is the main topic of the talk?
A) The biography of Georges Seurat
B) A specific style of painting
C) Color theory in the 19th century
D) The science of human vision
2. According to the professor, how is the color green created in a Pointillist painting?
A) By mixing pigments on a palette
B) By placing blue and yellow dots near each other
C) By painting a large green shape first
D) By using a special kind of green paint
3. What can be inferred about the traditional method of painting at that time?
A) It was considered more scientific than Pointillism
B) It involved mixing paints before applying them
C) It produced paintings that looked dull
D) It was easier for artists to learn
4. Why does the professor say Pointillism was a "scientific approach"?
A) It was developed by a team of scientists
B) It was based on theories of how the eye perceives color
C) Its subject matter was often scientific discoveries
D) It required the use of special laboratory tools
Professor: Let's turn our attention to a really distinctive late 19th-century painting technique called Pointillism. Instead of mixing colors on a palette, artists like Georges Seurat applied small, distinct dots of pure color directly onto the canvas. Seurat developed this method around 1886. From a distance, these tiny dots of color blend in the viewer's eye. This is called optical mixing. So, for example, instead of mixing blue and yellow paint to get green, the artist would place tiny blue dots next to tiny yellow dots. The viewer's eye then does the work of blending them into a vibrant green. The effect is often much more luminous and brilliant than what you'd get from physically mixing the pigments. It was a very scientific approach to painting, but it required immense patience from the artist.
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