填空题

Saying that Pablo Picasso dominated Western art in the 20th century is, by
now, the merest commonplace. In his 50th birthday, the little Spaniard from (1)______
Malaga had become the very prototype of the modem artist as public figure No
painter before him had a mass audience in his own lifetime. The total public for (2)______
Titian in the 16th century or Velazquez in the 17th were probably no more than (3)______
a few thousands of people—but that included most of the crowned heads, (4)______
nobility and intelligentsia of Europe. Picasso’s audience—meaning people who
had heard him and seen his work, at least in republication—was in tens, (5)______
possibly hundreds, of millions. He and his work were the subjects of unending
analysis, gossip, dislike, adoration and rumor.
There seems a little doubt that the greatest of Picasso’ work came in (6)______
the 30 years between Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Guerin.
Sometimes he would be folded up series of variations on the old masters (7)______
and 19th century painters he needed to measure himself up, such as (8)______
Velazquez and Goya, or Poisson, Delacroix, Magnet and Curbed. In his
last years particularly, is production took on a manic and obsessive
quality, is though the creative act can forestall death. Which it could not.
His death left the public with a nostalgia for genius that no talent today, on (9)______
the field of painting, can satisfy with. (10)______