Modern artworks more and more expensive

时间：2007-11-21 06:41:40

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Chinanews, Shanghai, November 21 – Nowadays, the works of modern Chinese artists have become more and more expensive.

 

A china lute1 is priced at 500,000 yuan, and an oil painting can be at hundreds of thousands of yuan. Though the standard of Chinese artists has not greatly improved, the price of their works has increased unreasonably2.

 

The price hike started two year ago. Some critics describe Chinese artists as “children with the income of adults”.

 

Art in China has finished the development in several years that took its Western counterparts nearly a century.

 

A mere3 ten years ago, there were hardly any collectors interested in modern artworks produced in China, but their overheated popularity today has also caused great panic among Chinese artists, as it is beyond their ability to control the situation.

 

“Though our paintings are more profitable today, a large proportion of art-lovers can no longer afford them. Art today has become a symbol of vainglory,” said Mr. Fang4, the director of a prestigious5 art gallery in Shanghai.

 
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1 lute moCzqe     
n.琵琶，鲁特琴
参考例句：
  • He idly plucked the strings of the lute.他漫不经心地拨弄着鲁特琴的琴弦。
  • He knows how to play the Chinese lute.他会弹琵琶。
2 unreasonably 7b139a7b80379aa34c95638d4a789e5f     
adv. 不合理地
参考例句：
  • He was also petty, unreasonably querulous, and mean. 他还是个气量狭窄，无事生非，平庸刻薄的人。
  • Food in that restaurant is unreasonably priced. 那家饭店价格不公道。
3 mere rC1xE     
adj.纯粹的；仅仅，只不过
参考例句：
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
4 fang WlGxD     
n.尖牙，犬牙
参考例句：
  • Look how the bone sticks out of the flesh like a dog's fang.瞧瞧,这根骨头从肉里露出来，象一只犬牙似的。
  • The green fairy's fang thrusting between his lips.绿妖精的尖牙从他的嘴唇里龇出来。
5 prestigious nQ2xn     
adj.有威望的，有声望的，受尊敬的
参考例句：
  • The young man graduated from a prestigious university.这个年轻人毕业于一所名牌大学。
  • You may even join a prestigious magazine as a contributing editor.甚至可能会加入一个知名杂志做编辑。

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