1. A short history of western painting
Unit 1 Art
A short history
of western painting
Reading
广东 林慧贤

2. What do we call these things? ----
paintings

3. Brain Storm painting painter
Can you name some famous painting and painters?

4. Can you match the painting and the painters?
Monet
Can you tell the ages of the paintings?

5. Who are your favorite painters from China?
Xu Beihong

6. Qi Baishi

7. Zhang Daqian

8. Why do you like them?
…for their painting is very vivid, or their paintings show the real life of the nature or the people in the old days….

9. Comparison of Western and Chinese painting.
Time Western Chinese
5th to 15th century AD
15th to 16th
century
Late 19th century to early 20th century
Which do you think has a greater change? Why?
20th century to today

10. Let’s know some famous Western artists!

11. Giotto di Bondone
乔托·迪·邦多纳
犹大之吻

12. Leonardo da Vinci
( )

13. Masaccio的作品：
Madonna with
Child and Angels
Crucifixion

14. 凡高《向日葵》

15. The Middle Ages
天使报喜
织锦画
圣母与圣婴

16. Compare the two paintings
《圣母子》中世纪
《蒙娜丽莎》文艺复兴
Gods are painted
People are painted.

17. the Renaissance

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

19. 戴帽的自画像--塞尚作
被称为”现代艺术的起源”
Modern Art

20. 2. state or fact of existing 3. being in thought but having a
Match the words in Column A
with those in Column B.
a. realistic
b. abstract
c. existence
d. detailed
e. religious
f. traditional
1. accurate, minute
2. state or fact of existing
3. being in thought but having a
physical or practical existence
4. lifelike, true to life
5. classical, of old beliefs
6. sincere to believe in a god or gods

21. Look at the paintings in this unit and discuss the questions
1. Which would you choose to put up on the
walls of our classroom? And why?
2.Would you rather have Chinese or Western
paintings in your home? Give your reasons.
3.If you were an artist, what kind of pictures
would you paint?
4. What would you rather do--- paint pictures,
make sculptures, or design buildings? Why?

22. Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-
Pre-reading
1.Do you ever visit art galleries?
What kind of paintings have your ever seen?
2.Can you spell out the names of some famous
Western artists and tell me in which century
they lived?
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-
Impressionist (后印象派作家). He was a famous
artist in 19th century.
Henri Matisse was a French Painter
considered to be one of the great formative
figures in 20th-century art.

23. Fast reading What’s the main idea of the text ?
The style of Western art has changed a lot with time going by.
2.How many styles of Western painting are mentioned in the text? What are they?
Four. They are:
The Middle Ages, The Renaissance,
Impressionism and Modern art.

24. Skimming
What were the artists interested in from 5th to 15th century AD? Creating _______ and ____ for God.
2. How did Masaccio paint his paintings? He drew things in__________, which makes pictures very _______.
respect
love
perspective
realistic

25. 3. Why did the impressionists have to paint quickly?
Because the natural light _______ quickly, they had to _____ quickly.
changes
paint

26. Scanning
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.

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

28. 3. In the Renaissance, painters___.
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.

29. 4. ____discovered how to make paintings look more real by using perspective.
Giotto di Bondone.
Masaccio.
Claude Monet.
D. Pablo Picasso

30. 5. What does the text mainly tell us?
How religious painting developed.
How oil painting developed.
How impressionist painting developed.
D. How western art developed.

31. Detailed Reading: True or False
1. Western art has changed very little over the last seventeen centuries.
2. Painters in the Middle Ages painted mainly religious subjects.
3. Paintings in the Middle Ages were very realistic.
4. Renaissance painters tried to paint things in a realistic way. F T F T

32. 5. Two important discoveries in the Renaissance period were oil paints and drawing in perspective.
6. Impressionists painted their pictures mainly indoors.
7. At first people did not like the impressionists’ paintings.
8. Modern art began with the impressionists. T F T T

33. Listen to the tape and fill in the chart:
Ages
Time
Artist
Feature
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Impressionism
Modern

34. Ages: Middle Ages
Time: 5th to 15th century AD
Artist: Giotto
Feature: Religious, realistic

35. Ages: the Renaissance
Time: 15th to 16th century AD
Artist: Masaccio
Feature: perspective, realistic

36. Ages: impressionism
Time: Late 19th to early 20th
Artist: not mentioned
Feature: Not detailed, ridiculous

38. Ages: modern art
Time: 20th century to today
Artist: not mentioned
Feature: controversial, abstract, realistic

39. Now can you tell which period the following pictures belong to?

40. Middle Ages
                                                                                                                                                                

41. Renaissance

42. Impressionism

43. Modern art

44. Now draw the history of western painting:
Middle Ages,from 5th to 15th century.
The Renaissance:
from 15th to 16 century
Impressionism:
late 19th to early 20 century
Modern Art: from 20th to today

45. The style of Western art has changed __________, while Chinese art has changed ________. Art is _________ by the way of ___ and ______.
During the Middle Ages, the main ____ of painters was to _________________ themes. Artists were ___________ creating ______ and _____for God.
many times
less often
influenced
life
beliefs
aim
represent religious
interested in
respect
love

46. In the Renaissance, people became _______ more on _______and less on _______. 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.
focused
religion
humans
people
nature as
were
perspective
convinced
looking through at

47. 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
outdoors
quickly as
detailed as those

48. Today people accept _____________ ________ as the _________ of _______ _______. Some modern art is _______while some is ___.
impressionists’
paintings
beginning
modern
abstract
realistic
art