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On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Sir Winston Churchill was presented with his portrait by a well-known modem artist, Graham
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Sir Winston Churchill was presented with his portrait by a well-known modem artist, Graham
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On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Sir Winston Churchill was presented with his portrait by a well-known modem artist, Graham Sutherland. The painting had been ordered and paid for by the members of Parliament,
Though moved by this mark of respect and affection, neither Sir Winston nor Lady Churchill liked it. "It makes me look stupid — which I am not!" protested Churchill in private. Publicly, he only remarked that it was "a fine example of modern art."
The Churchills were so unhappy about the portrait that finally they had it destroyed. Churchill died at ninety in 1965. Lady Churchill followed him in 1977. Shortly after her death, the public learned what had happened to Sutherland’s painting, and a heated argument broke out. The painter was understandably sad. The artistic community, shocked and angry, claimed that the destruction of the picture had been a crime. Historians said that they regretted the disappearance of a historical document. All agreed that the Churchills didn’t have the right to do what they had done.
Well — did they? A good part of the public felt that the subject (and owner) of a portrait had the right to get rid of it if it made him so unhappy. The question, however, has been raised many times before: who has the right to a work of art — the sitter, the owner, the donor, or the artist who created it? And when the painting is the portrait of a historical figure, should the right of descendants be considered, as the historians claimed?
Another question comes to mind: who is qualified to judge a portrait? Graham Sutherland had told Sir Winston that he would paint him "as he saw him." Churchill never had a chance to see the work in progress since the painter refused to show it to him. He found out only when he received his present that Sutherland had seen him as a heavy, sick, tired old man.
None of these questions have been answered yet to everybody’s satisfaction.
The word "subject" in the fourth paragraph can be best replied by which of the following words in the same paragraph?
选项
A、Sitter.
B、Donor.
C、Descendant.
D、Figure.
答案
A
解析
词汇理解。从第四段的上下文中可以看出,subject与sitter都是指画像上的人。所以是同一个意思。
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