Unit One Art

Warming up and reading

painting photography pottery sculpture calligraphy literature embroidery art fashion music opera architecture paper cutting There are great v_________ of art forms. arieties

Have you ever wished you could paint as well as a professional artist? brush canvas drawing oil painting watercolour painting quick sketch palette easel paints

How much do you know about the Chinese art? landscape _______ figure drawing ________ water color ______ oil painting ________ handicraft _______ carvings ________ murals _______ pottery __________ sketch______ imitating________ charcoal drawing______ life drawing ________ folk paper cutting ________ 风景画 人物画 水彩画 油画 手工艺 雕刻 壁画 陶艺 速写 临摹 素描 写生 民间剪纸

A Short History of Western Painting

1. What’s the main idea? Fast reading: The style of Western art has __________ a lot with time going by. Art is influenced by the ________and_______ of a people. changed customs faith

A Short History of Western Painting 2. How many styles of Western painting are mentioned in the text? What are they? Period Time The Middle Ages AD5th---15th The Renaissance 15th---16th Impressionism Late 19th---early 20th Modern art 20th ---today A Short History of Western Painting

Careful reading The Middle Ages 天使报喜 织锦画 圣母与圣婴

respect and love for God Period Painting style Characteristic Representa- tive painter 5th--15th century Main aim: to ____________ _________________ Created a feeling of _________________________ represent religious themes The Middle Ages Giotto di Bondone respect and love for God

Giotto di Bondone 乔托·迪·邦多纳 犹大之吻 The kiss of Judas

the Renaissance

Painted_______________as____________________; Period Painting style Characteristic Representative painter 15th--16th century Began to___________ less on religious themes and ______a more __________ attitude to life. Painted_______________as____________________; Two important discoveries: ______________________ concentrate The Renaissance adopt humanistic Masaccio people and nature they really were perspective; oil painting

Masaccio (1401-1427), the first great painter of the Italian Renaissance, whose innovations(创新) in the use of scientific perspective inaugurated（使开始）the modern era in painting.

Masaccio的作品： Madonna with Child and Angels Crucifixion (十字架）

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Mona Lisa

(达·芬奇 Leonardo Da Vinci) 最后的晚餐 Lord's Supper (达·芬奇 Leonardo Da Vinci)

Michelangelo (1475－1564) 米开朗基罗 Creation of Adam

莫瑞桥--阿尔弗莱德·西斯莱 赛艇--局斯塔夫·卡耶博特 蓬图瓦兹. 埃尔米塔日的坡地 --卡米耶·毕沙罗 Impressionism

how light and shadow fell on objects Period Painting style Characteristic Representative painter The first to paint __________; Wanted to show____________ ___________________________ Paintings were not so ____________as before. outdoors late 19th-early 20th century how light and shadow fell on objects Impressionism detailed

日出·印象 (油画/1872年-1873年) 　　　 法国印象派画家 克劳特-莫奈(1840-1926)

花园中的女人 (油画/1866年-1867年) 克劳德·莫奈 花园中的女人 (油画/1866年-1867年)　　　 克劳德·莫奈

Sunflower 凡高 《向日葵》

Starry Night 凡高Van Gogh

开花的栗树Chestnut blooming 凡高 (Vincent Van Gogh)

Modern Art

Scores of a photograph Period Characteristic Painting style Characteristic Representative painter 20th century - today _________modern art styles; Some abstract: not paint as _________________;concentrate on_________________________ Some realistic: look almost like ___________________________ Scores of Modern art we see with our eyes certain qualities of the object a photograph

(Picasso毕加索) 　梦(Dream)

坐着的女人 (Seated Woman) (Picasso)

戴帽的自画像--塞尚作 被称为”现代艺术的起源”

白杨树 (油画/约作于1879年-1880年) 　　　保罗·塞尚

2. Choose the words or phrases that have the similar meanings to the underlined words in the text.

1) People began to concentrate less on religious themes and adopt a more humanistic attitude to life. A. put one’s hands …on B. focus… on C. depended…on 2) When people first saw his paintings they were convinced they were looking through a hole in the wall at a real scene. A. suggested B. told C. persuaded to believe

3) In the late 19th century, Europe changed a great deal from a mostly agricultural society to a mostly industrial one. a great many B. a lot C. plenty of 4) At the time they were created, the impressionists’ paintings were controversial, but today they are accepted as the beginning of what we now call “modern art”. A. hard to believe B. easy to accept C. causing public argument

5) Some modern art is abstract; that is, the painter does not attempt to paint objects as we see them with our eyes. A. intend B. tried C. hope 6) Who can predict what painting styles there will be in the future. A. tell B. guess C. say in advance

Post-reading Choose the correct answer 1) Which of the following statements is true? A. Paintings in Middle Ages were very realistic. B. Western art has changed a lot since the 5th century. C. Impressionist paintings were painted mainly indoors. D. Modern art began in the Renaissance.

2). In the Renaissance, painters___. A. Painted religious scenes in a more realistic style. B. focused more on religion than on humans. C. began to paint outdoors. D. returned to classical Roman and Greek ideas about art.

3). ____discovered how to make paintings look more real by using perspective. A. Giotto di Bondone. B. Masaccio. C. Claude Monet. D. Pablo Picasso.

4). Who began to paint religious scenes in a more realistic style? A. Giotto di Bondone. B. Masaccio. C. Claude Monet. D. Pablo Picasso.

5). At first most people hated the impressionists’ style of painting, because _____. A. their painting were very abstract. B. their painting were very realistic. C. They broke away from the traditional style of painting. D. their paintings were very ridiculous.

Retelling Styles in Western art have changed __________. Art is _________ by the ________ and ______________. During the Middle Ages, the main ____ of painters was to _________________ themes. A typical picture at this time was full of religious symbols, which created a feeling of ______ and ____ for God. many times influenced customs faith of a people aim represent religious respect love In the Renaissance, people began to____________ less on religious themes and _____a more __________ attitude to life. Artists tried to paint ______ and ______ __ they really ____. Masaccio used __________ in his paintings which made people ________ they were ______________ a hole in the wall ____ a real scene. concentrate adopt humanistic people nature as were perspective convinced looking through at

In the late 19th century, Europe changed __________ from a mostly __________ society to a mostly ________ one. The ____________ were the first to paint ________. They had to paint ______ and their paintings were not __ ______________ of earlier painters. a great deal agricultural industrial impressionists quickly outdoors as detailed as those Today people accept _____________ ________ as the _________ of _______ _______. Some modern art is _______while some is _______. impressionists’ paintings beginning modern art abstract realistic

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a speaking picture. 画是无言的诗, 诗是有声的画。 2. Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained 好的画犹如佳肴，可以品其美味，却无法解释。

Life is short; art is long. When viewing a painting, the more you enter into the painting, the more you forget yourself and the more you meet and discover yourself. Again, this is true of any activity, the more you give of yourself to it, the more you forget yourself and the more you come closer to your true self, that then is the art of living! Life is short; art is long.