1. The world of colours and light
Unit 3
The world of colours and light
Reading
Visiting the Masters

2. Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it!
艺术远没有生活重要，但是没有艺术, 生活是多么乏味呀！
Teaching aims:
To help the students learn some masters’ life stories and their famous paintings.
To help the students to learn how to read a travelogue.
To improve students’ ability to cooperate with others.
To arouse students’ interest in art.

3. Read the e-mail quickly and answer these questions.
1.Which countries has Li Ming visited on his trip?
Spain, France, Netherlands.
2. How many days did they spend in Pairs?
4 days.
3.What did Monet love to paint when he was older?
Water lilies.

4. Read the e-mail again, then answer.
1. What did Li Ming think about Malaga?
2. What is cubism?
He thinks Malaga is a lovely city and that the architecture there is beautiful.
Cubism is a type of art which often uses acute angles and where the world is represented as being.

5. 3. What did Li Ming do in Pairs?
4. What is the most valuable painting in
the world?
5. What did da Vinci do besides painting?
He went to the Louvre Museum and the Musee d’Orsay.
Mona Lisa.
He designed many new inventions, including a primitive from of a helicopter and tank.

6. 6. In which museum can you see Monet’s work?
7. What was the sad thing about van Gogh?
8. In which city did Li Ming see Rembrandt’s paintings?
The Musee d’Orsay.
He received little reward for his effort. Only one painting had been sold before he died.
In Amsterdam.

7. Another museum
Amsterdam
The Van Gogh Museum
Paris
The Louvre Museum
The Musee d’Orsay
Picasso’s house
Malaga

8. Name: Pablo Picasso
Birthplace:_______________________
Nationality:______________________
Dates of birth and death:
Number of his art works: ___________
His profession:______________
Characteristic of cubism he created:_________________________
_____________________________________
the city of Málaga, Spain
Spanish
over 20,000
painter, sculptor and photographer
a type of art where things are represented as geometric shapes.

9. A Weeping Woman

10. Self-portrait

11. Name: Leonardo da Vinci
Nationality:___________
Dates of birth and death:
His masterpiece:_________________
His profession:__________________
_______________________________
The place where the painting is kept:________________________
Italian
Mona Lisa
a painter, a sculptor,
an architect, an engineer and a scientist
the Louvre Museum, Paris

12. The Madonna of the Rocks

13. Mona Lisa

14. The Last Supper

15. Name:_________________
Nationality:_____________
Dates of birth and death:
__________
The place where some of his paintings are kept: the Musee d’Orsay, Paris
The favourite things in his painting:________________________
Claude Monet
French
lotus flowers

16. water Lilies
Lotus flowers floated on the surface of a pond

17. Name: Vincent van Gogh
Nationality:_____________________
Dates of birth and death:
Number of his art works: ________
_____________________________
His masterpieces:________________
________________________________
His early painting style:____________
Towards the end of his life, he created ___________________
The place where some of his paintings are kept:___________________
Dutch
about 800 oil paintings and 1,600 drawings
The Potato Eaters, Starry Night ,Sunflowers
Impressionism
more abstract artwork
the Van Gogh Museum

18. Starry Night

19. Sunflowers

20. A Village

21. Self-Portrait

22. the museum in Amsterdam
Name: Rembrandt
Nationality:______________________
Dates of birth and death:_________
His masterpiece:________________
The place where some of his
paintings are kept:_________________
Dutch
The Night Watch
the museum in Amsterdam

23. The Night Watchman

24. Scan the article again and look for the specific information asked in Part C2. Then complete the following table with the correct information about these artists.

25. Years of birth and death
Artist
Nationality
Years of birth and death
Pablo Picasso
Leonardo da Vinci
Claude Monet
Van Gogh
Spanish
Italian
French
Dutch
Rembrandt
Dutch
Dutch

26. Artist
Famous painting
Year of painting
Pablo Picasso
Guernica
1937
Leonardo da Vinci
Claude Monet
Van Gogh
Mona Lisa
Impression, Sunrise
1872
The potato eaters
starry night
1885
1889
The night watchman
Rembrandt
1642

27. New words
Match the new words in Part D with the correct definitions.
Answers:
1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____
5. _____ 6. _____ 7. _____ b d f a g c e

28. oil painting consensus was off to
Read the life story of Pablo Picasso in Part E. Complete it with the given words.
oil painting consensus was off to
reward agents acute

29. Answers:
1) ___________ 2) ___________
3) ___________ 4) ___________
5) ___________ 6) ___________
acute
oil painting
was off to
agents
reward
consensus

30. Work in groups
Work in small groups. Introduce each artist mentioned in the article to other group members. You can search more information about these artists after class.

31. Discussion
1. Is there an art museum in your city or town? If there is one, have you visited it? If you have, what did you think of the art there?

32. 2. Do you think we need art museums? Why or why not?
3. Do you think art is important? Why
or why not?

33. Homework Go to the school library to search
more information about the famous
and painters and their works we have
read about.
Find the important words/expression
in your eyes and try to understand it
by yourself.