There is a colorless tiger. He seems like something out of an old black and w【小题1】 movie. His lack (缺乏) of color makes him so famous that the world’s great painters want to come to his zoo to t【小题2】 to put some color on him. But the colors always just drips (滴) down off his skin (皮肤).

Then along comes a p【小题3】 called Van Cough. When he travels around, he likes to paint 【小题4】 (happy) with his brush. He never puts any paint on his brush, and he doesn’t u【小题5】 canvas (画布) or paper. He paints the air.

When going into the tiger’s cage, he begins saying some words to the big animal, and 【小题6】(move) his dry brush up and d【小题7】 the tiger’s body. Later, people can see c【小题8】 on the tiger’s skin. Everyone wants to k【小题9】 what the painter’s secret is. He says to them that his brush is only good for painting real life and he needs no colors. He can do it because of the words he kept s【小题10】 to the tiger: “In just a few days you will be free again, you will see.”

At the time they were created, the Impressionist paintings were【小题1】, but today they are accepted as the beginning of【小题2】we call “modern art’. This is because the Impressionists 【小题3】artists to look at their environment in new ways. There are scores of modern art styles, but 【小题4】the Impressionists, many of these painting styles might not exist. On the one hand, some modern art is abstract; that is, the painter doesn’t 【小题5】to paint objects as we see them with our eyes, 【小题6】instead concentrates on certain qualities of the object, 【小题7】color, line and shape to represent them. On the【小题8】hand, some paintings of modern art are so 【小题9】 that they look photographs. These styles are so different. Who can【小题10】what painting styles there will be in the future?