A rebel and his art 阅读理解

A rebel and his art 阅读理解
No artist has affected modern art more than Pablo Picasso.The thousands of masterpieces he created changed the way people thought about art.Picasso was perhaps the most talented and successful artist who ever lived.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in 1881 in a small town on the southern coast of Spain.His father was a painter who taught art.Picasso showed exceptional talent at an early age and,by the time he was in his teens,painted better than his father or any of the local art teachers.At sixteen,Picasso was sent to the Royal Academy of Madrid,where students drew from plaster casts and copied works of the old masters.Picasso felt these assignments were pointless and began to work on his own.Picasso’s father soon became angry with his son’s rebellious behavior,long hair,and strange clothes.He believed that Picasso was wasting his talent and scolded him,“ Why don’t you cut your hair and paint sensibly?”
In 1900,Picasso left for Paris- then the center of the art world.He lived in a cold,rundown building,painting constantly,sometimes surviving for days on only a piece of bread.During these years,his art reflected his dismal surroundings.Homeless outcasts were the subject of many of his fairly realistic early paintings.After seeing African masks and sculptures,his works became more simplified and angular leading up to the revolutionary new style known as Cubism.”
Picasso didn’t sell much of his work during these early years.(On May 8,1995,Picasso’s Angel Fernandez de Soto was sold at auction for $29 million.The next day a Picasso from his Blue Period,one of his later works,sold for $ 5 million.But he worked continuously,always experimenting with different styles of painting.Though Picasso lived to be ninety-two and became the most famous artist in the world,he spoke of his youthful days in Paris as “ the happiest time in my life.” As a matter of fact,everyone knows that in his late years,Picasso was inordinately frustrated about his age,death,his loss of sexuality- that’s in all his work.
1.This selection mainly discusses_____.
A) Picasso’s Cubism as a revolutionary style in art
B) Picasso as a rebel and his art
C) Picasso’s life and painting in Paris
D) Picasso’s influences on the development of modern art
2.Pablo Picasso showed unusual talent for painting______.
A) in his early childhood
B) in his early teens
C) at the age of sixteen
D) when he painted better than any of the local art teachers
3.Pablo Picasso started to reveal his rebellious spirit_______.
A) when he was a child
B) in his early teens
C) when he was studying in the Royal Academy
D) after he moved to Paris
4.What marks something of a turning point in his career as an artist?
A) Those miserable but fruitful youthful days in Paris.
B) Those realistic paintings reflecting dismal social surroundings.
C) The influences of masks and sculptures created by native African artists.
D) Experimenting with new different styles of painting.

再没有比毕加索对现代艺术影响更大的艺术家了.他的几千幅杰作改变了人们对艺术的看法.毕加索可能是有史以来最有天才最成功的画家了.
毕加索1848年出生于西班牙南部海岸的一座小城.他的父亲是位教美术的画师.毕加索在早期即显露出其非凡的天才,十几岁时他的画技已经超过了他的父亲和当地的美术老师.十六岁时,他被送往马德里皇家艺术学会,在那里,学生们画石膏像,临摹前人的杰作.毕加索觉得这些作业毫无意义,就开始自己琢磨了.很快,他父亲就被儿子的叛逆行为---长发和奇装异服--激怒了.他觉得毕加索在浪费他的天才并责怪他说：“为什么不剪掉长发,理智地画画呢?”
1900年,毕加索动身去了当时的世界艺术中心---巴黎.他住在一幢阴冷破房子里,不停地作画,有时往往几天只吃一块面包度日.在这几年里,他的作品反映了凄惨的周围环境.无家可归的流浪者是他早期现实主义作品中的主题.在他看到非洲面具和雕塑以后,他的作品变得更加简单化和棱角分明,这逐渐形成了他有革命意义的新风格,即人们熟知的“立体主义”.
毕加索在早期并没卖掉多少作品,（1995年5月8日,他的作品“ Angel Fernandez de Soto”以二千九百万美元被拍卖.第二天,另一幅他蓝色时期的作品---他的晚期作品之一,卖了五百万美元.但他仍然不停地创作,总是尝试不同的风格.尽管毕加索活到了92岁高龄,成了世界最著名的艺术家,他谈及他年轻时代的巴黎岁月时,称其为“我一生中最快乐的时光”.实际上,人人都知道,在晚年,他对年龄、死亡、性能力的丧失感到过度沮丧---那些都在他的作品中表露无遗.）