4 . The following four world-famous artists have stood the test of time. You can see their artworks in most important galleries.

Botticelli (1445-1510)

Sandro Botticelli was an extremely successful Italian painter during the Early Renaissance. As well as standard religious works, his paintings are filled with imaginative mythological (神学的) figures. Realism was ignored in his paintings because he used allegories (寓言) within delicate color and poetic lines.

Michelangelo Merisi (1573-1610)

Probably the most revolutionary artist of his time, the Italian painter Michelangelo abandoned the rules that had guided a century of artists before him. He is known for his desire to show the realism and the emotion in the paintings. He used ordinary working people with irregular, rough and characterful faces as models.

Edouard Manet (1832-1883)

One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a vital painter in changing from Realism to Impressionism. Almost all the paintings of Edouard Manet represent scenes of the streets of Paris. His paintings of cafe scenes are observations of social life in nineteenth century Paris.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881 - 1973)

He is probably the most important figure in 20th Century art. No painter before him had had such an effect on the art world in his own lifetime. Known as the father of modern art, Picasso experimented with different colors and shapes. His greatness lies in his role both as revolutionary and traditionalist at once.

5 . “Today, at 28, the young German Violinist Anner Sophie Mutter is at the top. She gives radiance (光辉) to the music,” wrote Geoffrey Norris in The Daily Telegraph, London. Mutter was also one of the world’s youngest professors.

Born in Rhweinfelden on June 29, 1963, Anner Sophie grew up in Wehr, a small town just five kilometers from the Swiss border. Her father, Karl Wilhelm Mutter, and her mother, Gerlinde, considered music lessons part of a good education. Thus, their first son, Andreas, began practicing the violin at eight, and his younger brother, Christoph, had piano lessons. It came as no surprise when Anner Sophie said she wanted a violin for her fifth birthday.

Her parents thought she was too young for the violin, and persuaded her to start on the piano. But Anner Sophie has always had a mind of her own. “I longed to play the violin,” she said. “It seemed to me a much more interesting instrument.” After six months, her parents gave in.

The famous violin teacher Ema Honigberger, who lived nearby, became Anner Sophie’s tutor (家庭教师). After only nine months of lessons, she entered the six-year-old in a nationwide competition for young musicians. With Christoph accompanying her on the piano, Anner-Sophie won first prize.

In 1974, Ema Honigberger died. Anner Sophie’s new teacher was Aida Stucki. She taught Anner Sophe to develop her own ideas on how a piece should be played, not just to imitate (模仿) others. This is one of the violinist’s strongest, most distinctive (与众不同的) characteristics today.

Though the Mutters were short of money at times, they limited their daughter’s performances to one or two a year. “We are glad we went the family road,” said her father. “No outsider (外人) can ever have an effect on our daughter’s career or push her into playing more concerts than she wants to.” Later she was allowed to give six to eight concerts a year and make some recordings. Only when she turned 18 did she begin her professional career.

6 . ZhangZongyi, with the stage name of LiuLingTong, was one of China’s most household Monkey King performers. And his son ZhangJinlai is also a_______name to millions of Chinese. But he was_________known as LiuXiaoLingTong, “the little six-year-old actor”. He immortalized(使永恒) the role of the Monkey King in the Chinese TV series “Journey to the West”. And it was in 1988, at 23_______he became a nationwide star.

Indeed the 1982 Monkey King production was regarded as a milestone in the history of Chinese TV series. According to_______estimates, China Central Television and local TV stations_______the series more than 3,000 times_________its debut(初次表演) in 1988. And it_______such fame for LiuXiaoLingTong that_________he went, he was called MeiHouwang or Beautiful Monkey King.

Performing as the Monkey King in local operas has been a tradition of Zhang family_________back to the Qing Dynasty. Zhang’s grandfather performed as the Monkey King. Then Zhang’s father__________to raise monkeys as pets as well as his teachers to__________them. Zhang said, “I often examine__________expressions and movements, not only at home but also in zoos,________I can act more vividly in my performances.”

Zhang has only a daughter, he said it’s________for her to play as the Monkey King, ________, he__________an art school to teach people to act as the Monkey King. He________that the art of acting as the Monkey King can continue among__________is interested in learning the art, whether they are Chinese or foreigners.

“__________born in China, the art of Monkey King __________the whole world,” Zhang insisted.