2. famous artist & his masterpiece mentioned in the film? Lead-in Watch the video and answer the questions. 1. the name of the film 2. famous artist & his masterpiece mentioned in the film? The Davinci Code Mona Lisa / the Last Supper
Reading Visiting the masters
Fast reading 1.How many famous artists are mentioned in the email? Who are they? five 2. How many museums are mentioned? What are they? And where are they? five a museum in Spain Louvre Museum Musee d’Orsay Van Gogh Museum Museum in Amsterdam Spain Paris, France Holland the Netherlands
Spain (Malaga) France (Paris) Holland (Amsterdam)
An ______ from ________ to his friend about his ____to some famous ___________ in ___________.And it tells us some masters’ life stories. email Li Ming art museums visit Europe
Reading strategy: Life story ( biography) in the order that things happened begin : discuss: talk about: compare: mention: date & place of birth childhood/ education/ early influences famous works/ the style of works compare them to other famous people date of death what people thought about their work
Malaga, Spain Nationality: Spanish Pieces of art: more than 20,000 painter, sculptor, photographer Jobs: Pablo Picasso Famous painting: self-portrait Style of painting: cubism a type of art where things are represented as geometric shapes(几何形状)
Leonardo da Vinci Nationality: Italian Mona Lisa( ) 1503-1506 his masterpiece Nationality: Italian Mona Lisa( ) 1503-1506 painter, sculptor engineer ,scientist Jobs: a lady with dark hair and a mysterious smile
hundreds of lotus plants floated on the surface of a pond Claude Monet love to paint lotus flowers hundreds of lotus plants floated on the surface of a pond Claude Monet (French) It feels peaceful to live there (1840-1926)
Number of his art works: 800 oil paintings and 1,600 drawings Van Gogh Amsterdam, Holland Nationality: Dutch Number of his art works: 800 oil paintings and 1,600 drawings Van Gogh Type of art: impressionism; abstract artwork paintings of himself (36) His masterpieces: Starry Night (1889) Sunflowers The Potato Eaters(1885)
Language points His sad life devote his whole life to… sell one painting distribute…to…. unable to negotiate a successful sale
Rembrandt Nationality: Dutch Time of birth and death: (1606-1669) His masterpieces: The Night Watchman (1642)
Pablo Picasso Self-portrait
Van Gogh Starry Night Sun- flowers
The Night Watchman Rembrandt
Discussion Do you like art? Do you think art is important to us? Why?
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The Louvre Museum The Musee d’Orsay __ _______ _____ the works of da Vinci, it has more than _________ other European paintings, which ___ ______ the 13th______the 19th _______. We can’t find any _______________ in it. If you want to see the modern painting, you will have to go to another museum ____ Musee d’ Orsay. In addition to 6,000 rang from to century modern paintings called