YOU are that oil canvas, absolutely priceless, because there will never in the history of the universe be another YOU.

你就是那份油画，那份无价之宝，因为纵观历史，整个宇宙里都没有与你一模一样的另一个你。

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What is more valuable, an art poster that Wal-mart ordered fifty thousand copies of, or a hand-signed, one of a kind oil canvas?

想想哪个更值钱：是一份沃尔玛里卖的50000份艺术海报中的一份呢，还是一位油画家亲手签名的油画？

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However, the most expensive artwork by a living Chinese artist sold at auction in 2009 was still a contemporary piece done in oil on canvas.

然而，2009年拍出最高价的中国在世艺术家作品仍是一幅当代油画作品。

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Oil paints are usually put on canvas cloth.

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Degas's painting "Absinthe" (1875-76) or Van Gogh's "Corner in Montmartre" (1887) depict the territory and atmosphere of 19th-century Bohemia in Paris in oil on canvas.

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While these were only oil on canvas, cast in bronze or forged in steel, not living people, the tragedy is minimized but their destruction is almost as sad, because it was equally needless and equally barbaric.

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"It's one of my proudest moments, " says Mr. Hardberger, who also has a more conventional canvas oil portrait hanging in city hall.

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