Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The year 1850 may be considered the beginning of a new epoch in America art, with respect to the development of watercolor painting. In December of that year, a group of thirty artists gathered in the studio of John Falconer in New York City and drafted both a constitution and bylaws, establishing The Society for the Promotion of Painting in Water Color. In addition to securing an exhibition space in the Library Society building in lower Manhattan, the society founded a small school for the instruction of watercolor painting Periodic exhibitions of the members' paintings also included works by noted English artists of the day, borrowed from embryonic private collections in the city. The society's activities also included organized sketching excursions along the Hudson River. Its major public exposure came in 1853, when the society presented works by its members in the "Industry of All Nations" section of the Crystal Palace Exposition in New York.
The society did not prosper, however, and by the time of its annual meeting in 1854 membership had fallen to twenty-one. The group gave up its quarters in the Library Society building and returned to Falconer's studio, where it broke up amid dissension. No further attempt to formally organize the growing numbers of watercolor painters in New York City was made for more than a decade. During that decade, though, Henry Warren's Painting in Water Color was published in New York City in 1856-the book was a considerable improvement over the only other manual of instruction existing at the time, Elements of Graphic Art, by Archibald Roberson, published in 1802 and by the 1850's long out of print.
In 1866 the National Academy of Design was host to an exhibition of watercolor painting in its elaborate neo-Venetian Gothic building on Twenty-Third Street in New York City. The exhibit was sponsored by an independent group called The Artists Fund Society. Within a few months of this event, forty-two prominent artists living in and near New York City founded The American Society of Painters in Water Colors
The year 1850 was significant in the history of watercolor painting mainly because____________ .
A. watercolor painting was first introduced to New York City
B. the first book on watercolor painting was published.
C. John Falconer established his studio for watercolor painters
D. a group of artists established a watercolor-painting society
D Hai câu đầu của đoạn: “The year 1850 may be considered the beginning of a new epoch in America art, with respect to the development of watercolor painting. In December of that year, a group of thirty artists gathered in the studio of John Falconer in New York City and drafted both a constitution and
bylaws, establishing The Society for the Promotion of Painting in Water Color.” = Năm 1850 có thể được coi là bắt đầu kỷ nguyên hội họa ở Mỹ, với sự phát triển của tranh màu nước. Trong tháng 12 năm đó, một nhóm 30 nghệ sĩ đã tập trung tại studio của John Falconer tại thành phố New York và đã
soạn thảo cả văn bản thành lập và văn bản dưới luật, thành lập nên Cộng đồng Thúc đẩy Hội họa
Màu nước.