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　　第一段：古希腊时期人们喜欢忠于自然的艺术

　　第二段：人们也很喜欢能够准确表达自然的艺术家，提到了两个艺术家，比较之下， P 更胜一筹(有题)

　　第三段： 17 世纪艺术家借鉴了古希腊的艺术家，依然忠于表达自然，提到了一幅画 flower piece with curtain(有题)

　　第四段：人们用忠于自然的艺术来表达时间和短暂的富裕，但是以达芬奇为首的一些艺术家认为，艺术要表达内在的 energy，而不是只流于表面

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　　Rock Art of the Australia Aborigines

　　Ever since European first explored Australia, people have been trying to understand the ancient rock drawings and cavings created by the Aborigines, the original inhabitants of the continent. Early in the nineteenth century, encounters with Aboriginal rock art tended to be infrequent and open to speculative interpretation, but since the late nineteenth century, awareness of the extent and variety of Australian rock art has been growing. In the latter decades of the twentieth century there were intensified efforts to understand and record the abundance of Australian rock art.

　　The systematic study of this art is a relatively new discipline in Australia. Over the past four decades new discoveries have steadily added to the body of knowledge. The most significant data have come from a concentration on three major questions. First, what is the age of Australian rock art? Second, what is its stylistic organization and is it possible to discern a sequence or a pattern of development between styles? Third, is it possible to interpret accurately the subject matter of ancient rock art, bring to bear all available archaeological techniques and the knowledge of present-day Aboriginal informants?