Some artists are often not famous during their lifetime. Vincent van Gogh (梵高) was such an artist. People did not pay much attention to his ____1___. He began to think he was not a very good painter.
But he did not give up painting. He was so ____2____ in what he was painting that he did not want to stop.
He would even ____3____ to eat!
____4____, his paintings were dark. He used pencils or charcoal sticks (炭条) to make them. Then he ____5____ colour. He used lots of brown and dark green.
Later, Vincent moved to France. He wanted to learn from the artists who ____6____ there. They were trying new ____7___ of painting. In France, Vincent began using bright colours. He used oil paints (油画颜料) to create his art. He painted both the countryside and people. He ____8____ painted self-portraits (自画像). He created more than 20 portraits of himself!
Vincent completed more than 2,000 paintings in his life. ____9____ people did not buy his paintings during his lifetime, his paintings sell for a lot of money today. People think his paintings are masterpieces (杰作). For example, the painting Sunflowers is very ____10____ all over the world.