2016届高三英语一轮复习讲义：Book 6 Unit 17_高考复习指南

2016届高三英语一轮复习讲义：Book 6 Unit 17

　　Ⅰ.阅读理解

　　Soutine was born in Belarus (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1893.He was the tenth of eleven children.From 1910 to 1913 he studied in Vilnius at the Vilna Academy of Fine Arts.In 1913，he emigrated to Paris，where he studied at the École des BeauxArts under Fernand Cormon.He soon developed a highly personal vision and painting technique.

　　For a time，he and his friends lived at La Ruche，a residence for struggling artists in Montparnasse where he became friends with Amedeo Modigliani.Modigliani painted Soutine’s portrait several times，most famously in 1917，on a door of an apartment belonging to Léopold Zborowski，who was their art dealer.Zborowski supported Soutine through World War Ⅰ，taking the struggling artist with him to Nice to escape the German bombing of Paris.

　　After the war，Paul Guillaume，a highly influential art dealer，began to champion Soutine’s work.In 1923，in a showing arranged by Guillaume，the prominent American collector Albert C．Barnes bought 60 of Soutine’s paintings on the spot.Soutine，who had been virtually penniless in his years in Paris，immediately took the money，ran into the street，hailed a Paris taxi，and ordered the driver to take him to Nice，on the French Riviera，more than 400 miles away.

　　Soutine once horrified his neighbors by keeping an animal carcass in his studio so that he could paint it (Carcass of Beef)．The smelly smell drove them to send for the police，whom Soutine promptly lectured on the relative importance of art over hygiene.There’s a story that Marc Chagall saw the blood from the carcass leak out onto the corridor outside Soutine’s room，and rushed out screaming，“Someone has killed Soutine.”