This was a great honor, but Alexandra's style of painting was all her own.

这是一个巨大的荣誉，但亚历山德拉的绘画风格完全是她自己的。

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When Watts looked into the history of "the greatest painting of all time", he discovered that, for most of its life, the "Mona Lisa" remained in relative obscurity.

当瓦茨调查这幅“有史以来最伟大的画作”的历史时，他发现在大部分时间里，《蒙娜丽莎》都处于相对默默无闻的状态。

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One by one, they all started to politely refuse to make a painting of the king.

一个接一个，他们都开始委婉地拒绝为国王作画。

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When this painting was first shown to the public, one critic wrote that all other works were paintings, but this one represented truth.

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If you go down into France, if you go to la belle France, the painting is dominated by nobles who want pictures of themselves, or the tiresome Sun King and all his sort of miserable and all his sort of miserablehangers-on, very rich, miserable hangers-on.

如果你到了法国,"美丽"的法兰西,这些画作被,那些想为自己留像的士绅们所拥有,或者被令人讨厌的"太阳王",以及他可悲的走狗们,富有但却可悲的走狗们所拥有

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I'll just give you a few. First of all, there are the tears looking at Remedios Varo"s painting of the women in the tower embroidering the long tapestries that become the world.

我会说一些,当她在墨西哥看Remedios，Varo画的女人在塔中绣着挂毯的画,眼泪不断地出现在她的泡沫阴影里,那孤立在塔中的景象。

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So, I eventually dropped all my painting lessons after 5 years of trying and dutifully became the stereotype I was expected to be.

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Thanks to his vastly greater campaign chest, and his superior get-out-the-vote mechanisms, he could win all three, painting the whole of America's north-eastern quadrant Democratic blue.

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Experts argued that the large format, the location of the signature, and the huge number of flowers in the composition all suggested the painting was the creation of an unidentified artist, rather than the famed Dutch painter, and the work was officially "dismissed" from his catalogue in 2003.

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