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ginny, the main character of the story, is 16. she's turning out to be a brilliant she like her mother, who died when she was a baby. in the extract, you're going to read ginny sees her mother's picture in the art gallery.when ginny was first becoming interested in art and the history of painting, dad had given her a big book with hundreds of reproductions in it. she 'd was the book told her about the renaissance, and the Impressionists, and the Cubists, about Boticelli and monet and picasso. and among the pictures in the book, there were two that made her gasp. one was whistler's arrangement in grey and black, "the portrait of his mother sitting on an upright chair, and the other was el greco's" view of toledo ". she remembered her - it was a physical shock.and when she looked at the big painting that in the end wall, the same thing happened. it would have affected her the same way whoever had painted it, because it was a masterpiece. what it showed was a middle - aged blak man in a bar / cafe with epaulettes and medals, in the act of falling on to the red - carpeted floor of a very comfortable hotel. he 'd been eating a meal, and on the table, beside him was a plate of yellow soup. beyond him, through the open door and at the open window, and stood a crowd of people, watching some of them carried objects that helped you understand who they were.and all that was important, but just as important is the strange discord of the particular red of the carpet and the particular yellow of the soup, so that you knew it was something significant, and you guessed the soup had been for. and the way the dying man was isolated by the acid red from every other word in the picture, so that it looked as if he were sinking out of sight in a pool of blood. and on what was important was the thing that was impossible to put into words: the arrangements of the shares on the canvas. the same elements put together differently would have been an interesting picture, but put together like this, they made ginny catch her breath.she was thinking of what her mother had wanted to say by the picture. tell the story of the corrupt officer? yes... but not good. it was what she had wanted to do was just to see what happened when she put that red and that yellow together. that was what could start it. some little technical thing like that. and the shape of the man as he falls. because there 's no shadow, you can' t see well where he is in relation to the floor. he seems to be floating in space, almost. but at the same time one could say that the picture wasn't technically correct. it was amazing, brilliant! ginny got a lump in her throat.
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