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The Vincent Van Gogh exhibition
文森特·梵高画展
An exhibition of some of the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh will open at the Cultural Centre next week.
文森特·梵高画展下周将在文化中心开幕。
Read an art critic's review of Van Gogh's life and work.
阅读一名艺术评论家对梵高生活和工作的评论。
Vincent Van Gogh is probably the world's most famous painter.
文森特·梵高大概是世界上最著名的画家。
Many people wonder if he deserves such a reputation.
许多人怀疑他是否值得享有这样的声誉。
Certainly, he was not a success in his lifetime.
当然，他这一生不能算是个成功者。
Although he produced more than 800 paintings, he sold only one, for about US $80.
尽管他画了800多幅画，却只卖出去一幅，价钱大概是80美元。
No gallery showed his work during his life.
他在世时没有美术馆陈列他的作品。
Few people may have even heard of him.
甚至可能很少有人听说过他的名字。
His fame developed slowly after his death in 1890, but it has never stopped growing.
于1890年去世后，他渐渐有了名气，而这名气一直越变越大。
One hundred years later, in 1990, a Japanese businessman paid US $82 million for one of his works - a world record.
一百年后，1990年，一位日本商人花8200万美元买了他的一件作品—世界记录。
He was born in the Netherlands in 1853.
他于1853年出生在荷兰。
As a young man, he tried many different jobs.
年轻时，他尝试过做很多不同的工作。
He worked in an art dealer's company, but he must have disliked it, because he left.
他曾在一家艺术品经营公司谋生，但他肯定不喜欢那份工作，因为他离职了。
He went to England and became a language teacher.
他去英国，成了一位语言教师。
Then, looking for a deeper purpose in life, he worked as a missionary among the poor in Belgium,
然而，他一直在寻找人生中更远大的目标，他当了传教士，穿梭在比利时的穷人间。
but he quarrelled with his superiors and abandoned that career as well.
但由于和院长们吵架，他放弃了这份工作。
Finally, he decided to become a painter.
最后，他决定当一名画家。
For the rest of his life, he depended on the financial support of his brother Theo, the only person who believed in his ability.
他的余生，都依靠弟弟西奥养活，那是世界上唯一相信梵高能力的人。
For ten years, from 1880 to 1890, Van Gogh produced his best paintings, until, sadly, he took his own life.
在1880到1890这十年间，梵高创作了他最优秀的作品，直到他自杀身亡，令人遗憾。
