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The Vincent Van Gogh exhibition
文森特·梵高畫展
An exhibition of some of the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh will open at the Cultural Centre next week.
文森特·梵高畫展下周將在文化中心開幕。
Read an art critic's review of Van Gogh's life and work.
閱讀一名藝術評論家對梵高生活和工作的評論。
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畫家。
Many people wonder if he deserves such a reputation.
許多人懷疑他是否值得享有這樣的聲譽。
Certainly, he was not a success in his lifetime.
當然，他這一生不能算是個成功者。
Although he produced more than 800 paintings, he sold only one, for about US $80.
盡管他畫了800多幅畫，卻只賣出去一幅，價錢大概是80美元。
No gallery showed his work during his life.
他在世時沒有美術館陳列他的作品。
Few people may have even heard of him.
甚至可能很少有人聽說過他的名字。
His fame developed slowly after his death in 1890, but it has never stopped growing.
于1890年去世后，他漸漸有了名氣，而這名氣一直越變越大。
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8200萬美元買了他的一件作品—世界記錄。
He was born in the Netherlands in 1853.
他于1853年出生在荷蘭。
As a young man, he tried many different jobs.
年輕時，他嘗試過做很多不同的工作。
He worked in an art dealer's company, but he must have disliked it, because he left.
他曾在一家藝術品經營公司謀生，但他肯定不喜歡那份工作，因為他離職了。
He went to England and became a language teacher.
他去英國，成了一位語言教師。
Then, looking for a deeper purpose in life, he worked as a missionary among the poor in Belgium,
然而，他一直在尋找人生中更遠大的目標，他當了傳教士，穿梭在比利時的窮人間。
but he quarrelled with his superiors and abandoned that career as well.
但由于和院長們吵架，他放棄了這份工作。
Finally, he decided to become a painter.
最后，他決定當一名畫家。
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，都依靠弟弟西奧養活，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這十年間，梵高創作了他最優秀的作品，直到他自殺身亡，令人遺憾。
