Mi Fu, also known as Mi Fei, was a Chinese painter, poet, and calligrapher born in Taiyuan, Shanxi during the Song dynasty. In painting he gained     1     (recognize) for his style of painting misty landscapes. This style was considered as the “Mi Fu” style and involved the use of large wet dots of ink     2     (apply) with a flat brush. His poetry followed the style of Li Bai and his calligraphy that of Wang Xizhi.

He is best known for his calligraphy,     3     he is regarded as one of the four     4     (great) calligraphers in the Song dynasty. His style arises from that of calligraphers in earlier dynasties, but with a unique mark     5     his own.

As     6     famous calligrapher, Mi Fu was also noted as an eccentric (怪人). At times he    7     (call) “Madman Mi” because he was     8     (true) crazy about collecting stones. He even declared one stone to be his brother. He would bow to his “brother” rock     9     (show) the devotion given to older brothers. His son, Mi Youren, was also a famous painter in his father’s artistic style. Unlike his father, Mi Youren lived to be quite elderly,     10     (die) at the age of 79.

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Taylor Swift is ending her year with another honor. The pop superstar     1     (name) Time magazine’s 2023 “Person of the Year,”     2     (beat) out Barbie and King Charles III. “While her popularity     3     (grow) across the decades, this is the first year     4     Swift, 33, achieved a kind of nuclear fusion (核聚变): shooting art and commerce together     5     (release) an energy of historic force,” the magazine said. Time said Swift was selected     6     she found a way to give people around the world hope in some seriously dark times. “No one else     7     the planet today can move so many people so well,” Time said in its profile, “    8     giving too much credit to     9     star ignores her skill and her power.” The magazine also interviewed Swift, with the artist revealing that “this is the proudest and happiest I’ve ever felt, and the most     10     (creative) fulfilled and free I’ve ever been.”

What a fantastic horse! Even after more than a thousand years     1    (pass), we can still feel the power within its burning eyes and kicking hooves(马蹄). Night-Shining White is regarded as one of the     2    (important) horse paintings in the history of Chinese art.

Its artist, Han Gan, was born into a poor family in the early Tang Dynasty. His talent was discovered by the poet Wang Wei, who sponsored him to study painting. Due to Han Gan’s natural talent and years of hard work, he     3    (choose) to serve Emperor Xuanzong in the royal palace.

The Tang emperors were fond of horses,     4     meant that the animal was a frequent subject for artists. At that time, the most common way to study horse painting was by copying the works of other painters. Han Gan’s method,     5    , was different. He moved to live in the horse stable (马厩) and watched the animal itself. The horses,     6     resting or on the move, offered him plenty of inspiration. The more time he spent     7    (watch) these animals, the more his understanding grew. It is said that when Han Gan was asked to take a master of horse painting     8     his teacher, he replied, “All the horses are my teachers.”

Those who saw Han Gan’s horse paintings all expressed their     9    (admire) for him, saying that the horses     10     (paint) by Han Gan are real.

Over eighty years ago, the internationally praised Chinese-French painter     1     (begin) his artistic journey of Zao Wou-Ki in the beautiful city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, where his     2     (creative) was carried forward.

Now, on the 10th anniversary (周年) of his death, Zao’s famous art works have found their way back to their home before.

Exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki opened at the Art Museum of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou last month. Divided    3     six units, the exhibition shows around 200 of Zao’s most important works, including oil paintings, Chinese ink-wash paintings, watercolors,     4     works of literature.

As     5     important cultural program, held as part of the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games, the exhibition is also linked with the 2024 China-France Year of Culture and Tourism, and a key project     6     is supported by the Zhejiang Culture and Art Development Fund.

“His works create a modern Eastern style by     7     (bridge) the distance between Eastern and Western cultural traditions, and it allows the spirit of Chinese culture     8     (develop) quickly in the rich soil of modern painting,” Gao says.

Zao’s work has found a proper place in the collections of 150 major     9     (museum) and art galleries around the world.

In 2017, Zao’s painting “29.01.64” (1964)     10     (buy) for around HK $200 million (US $25.6 million) at Christie’s in Hong Kong, setting a new record for his works and the world record for an oil painting by an Asian artist.

Lust for Life (《渴望生活：梵高传》) is a biographical (传记的) novel about the life of the famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh．    1     (write) by US author Irving Stone, this work of historical fiction provides a vivid description of the artist．

The novel traces Van Gogh’s life from his early years in the UK to his final days in France. Stone weaves together historical facts, and     2     (imagine) storytelling to create the artist’s journey. The title, Lust for Life,     3     (perfect) shows Van Gogh’s enthusiasm both in his art and his life.

    4     impresses people most in this book is that,     5     (add) color to his paintings, Van Gogh would set aside the sketches (素描) to which he had devoted all his efforts and start over．    6    , among the Impressionist of the 19th century, this hardworking painter was still regarded as an abnormal person．

Another strength of Lust for Life lies     7     its ability to immerse the readers in the world of 19^th century Europe．Its vivid descriptions of the landscapes and cities contribute to a sensory experience that     8     (help) the readers better understand the environment where Van Gogh lived．Stone mixes the social and cultural contexts of the era effectively into the book,    9     (offer) readers a broader perspective on the challenges faced by artists during that period．

In conclusion, this book is a well-deserved     10     (celebrate) of the artist and his spirit of creation．

Peking Opera has always had an excellent reputation as the “National Opera”. When the opera troupes of Anhui entered Beijing, they were mixed with the Kunqiang and Hubei opera troupes,     1     (eventual) becoming the perfect example of Chinese culture. In the two centuries that followed, theaters began to flourish all over China. Among them, the Mei school of art     2     (create) by Mr. Mei Lanfang has never faded.     3     (it) influence spread far and wide, and even became famous overseas.

Born into a family of famous actors, Mei Lanfang’s performance style was elegant and beautiful, appearing reserved but actually full of complexity. The Mei Lanfang art school he founded     4     (be) totally different from the previous Peking Opera style of having the laosheng (an aged male role) as the main focus. He created a new era by     5     (divide) the main focus equally between the laosheng role and the dan role,     6     was imitated by others in the opera world. On stage,     7     Mei presented were artistic creations full of Oriental elegance. And     8     a cultural ambassador, he visited Japan, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries many times,     9     (demonstrate) the unique value of Chinese opera in the world’s great houses of art. He made positive     10     (contribute) to exchanges and mutual learning between the Chinese and foreign civilizations.

When Xu Beihong(1895~1953)     1     (return) to his home country in 1927, the painter had lived and studied art in Europe for nearly ten years, primarily in France,     2     has long been known as the “land of art”.

As one of the earliest Chinese    3    (artist) to study fine arts in Europe,   Xu was well received in art and education communities back home. It then seemed a natural choice for him    4     (put) his time and effort into teaching at art schools     5     holding exhibitions (展览) of modern Chinese painting.

However, Xu     6     (touch) by the bad situation of his country and     7     (it) people at that time, so he spoke for the serious condition of the people through painting. The subjects in his works included those    8     (live) in mountainous Chongqing who had to go up and down to get water, boatmen working on the Yangtze River and women praying (祈祷) for the     9     (safe) of husbands who worked far away from home.

For those in the art community, Xu is remembered mostly for blending (融合) Eastern and Western styles and doing a great job on the higher education of fine arts in China. While for his people,     10     artist is best known for showing the true life of those at the grassroots.

In the history of Chinese painting, the Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties was a very important period. Gu Kaizhi, a painter of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was     1     figure that had to be mentioned during this period.

Gu kaizhi was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu province in the year 344 and     2    (occupy) an important place in the history of Chinese literature. He was also a talented poet and calligrapher. Meanwhile,     3    (extreme) uninterested in fame and wealth, he made his living on the philosophy of “being half sly (狡黠) and half silly”     4     was given the title of “three excellences”, namely “excellence in poems”, “excellence in painting” and “excellence in stupidity”.

As the first painter     5     (maintain) influence on the development of Chinese painting, Gu Kaizhi not only created the basic model of figure painting, leaving     6     his most famous work, Nymph of the Luo River (《洛神赋图》 ), but also proposed the principles of painting     7     influence has lasted a thousand years, such as “realizing perfection through empathy”, “exposing spirit with form”, as well as his “six methods”.

The story of Nymph of the Luo River     8     (root) in historical records and the poetry of Cao Zhi, a prince and poet from the Three Kingdoms period. According to accounts, Cao Zhi wrote a poem called “Rhapsody of the Goddess of Luo” which described a goddess of extraordinary     9     (attractive).

Inspired by Cao Zhi’s poem, Gu Kaizhi set out to illustrate the charming nymph. His painting exhibits the soul of the poem,     10     (display) the nymph’s unique elegance and appealing charm. The work exemplifies Gu Kaizhi’s skill in bringing literary inspiration to life through art.

Xiao Han and He Ting, are now full-time artists and they run their own studios. They graduated from Shanghai Normal University     1     they majored in traditional Chinese painting,     2     unique ancient art form, which is created by using ink and water-based colors on materials such as paper or silk.

Xiao     3     (use) to creating paintings on round silk fans. His creative     4     (inspire) comes from the pure and simple life of people in the Southern Song Dynasty, “That is the very ideal painting and life style in a busy world     5     I dream of,” says Xiao, who set up a home studio in Shanghai     6     a window allowing him to enjoy the sunrise.

Despite drawing people and life, He Ting, from the coastal city of Xiangshan in Zhejiang Province, decorates the folding fans     7    (feature) paintings that are focused on landscapes. And he loves the views of Jiangnan water towns, which can bring people much     8     (warm).

“We are lucky to be living in a time when the government supports the culture industry     9     (complete). Now the revival(复兴) of traditional Chinese culture     10     (promote) in the whole country. And I believe that artists will get more chances to spread the culture both at home and abroad,” says He Ting.

During the Spring and Autumn Period (770 — 476 BC), there was a musician,     1     lived alone in a forest where he played the guqin, and his name was Yu Boya. One day, a passing woodcutter     2    (name) Zhong Ziqi was intrigued (陶醉于) by the sounds of the musical instrument, and Mr. Zhong Ziqi     3    (he) listened with full attention. Yu     4    (sincere) played the guqin, causing various pictures in Zhong’s imagination, such as flowing clouds and plunging waterfalls. Such was the     5    (connect) between performing and listening. They became bosom friends (挚友). After many years, when the woodcutter died, Yu decided     6    (smash) his instrument and never to play again since he was sure that he would never again have someone like Zhong to so intuitively understand his music.

Indeed, the guqin — the favored instrument of Confucius — was     7     essential musical instrument of ancient China’s educated elite (精英). It     8    (add) to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2008.

In April, when President Xi Jinping     9    (meet) with French President Emmanuel Macron, a classic guqin piece, High Mountain and Flowing Water, was played to celebrate the friendship and mutual understanding     10     the two countries.