"Visual Music" is a fine-tuned, highly
diverting, deceptively radical exhibition about the relationship of music and
modem art, lately arrived here at the Hirshhorn Museum. In its hippy-trippy way,
it rewrites a crucial chapter of history. Its subtitle is "Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900." Aristotle formulated the idea that each of the five senses -- smell, taste, touch, hearing and sight -- had its own proper and distinct sphere of activity. There were overlaps, he said (movement pertained both to sight and touch); and he speculated that the mysteries of color harmony might have something to do with musical harmony, an idea that would resonate for centuries. Musical harmony, as an expression of geometry, was thought to be useful to the study of art and architecture from the Renaissance on. Bu A. It means that people may appreciate two kinds of beauty at the same time. B. It means that people may enjoy beauty with all senses at the same time. C. It holds that different spheres of senses may overlap. D. It is thoroughly studied by modem science. [单项选择] Passage 2
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