2. Warming up, Pre-reading and Reading(I)
The first period
Warming up, Pre-reading and Reading(I)

3. Middle Ages 中世纪
Plum 高延军,4000

4. 东晋·顾恺之《洛神赋图》

5. The last super (达.芬奇 Leonardo Da Vinci)

6. Qi Baishi

7. starry night
Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh
(Dutch, )

8. What kinds of paintings do you like, Chinese or Western ?
Have you ever been to a gallery ?

10. western art

11. Warming up match some new words with the English correct meanings
a. realistic accurate, minute
b. Abstract state or fact of existing
c. Existence being in thought but having a
physical or practical or
practical existence
d. Detailed life like, true to life
e. Religious classical, of old beliefs
f. Traditional sincere to believe in god
or gods
a ---4 ; b ---3 ; c ; d ; e ---6 ; f

12. Giotto
Monet
Masaccio

13. traditional modern abstract figurative photography painting
Who are your favourite artists?
What kind of art do you prefer?
traditional
modern
abstract
figurative
photography
painting

14. Task 1: What’s the main idea and how is the information organized?
skimming
What’s the main idea and how is the information organized?
It is about a short history of western painting
And the information is organized in time
periods ,from earlist to present time.
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.

15. Listen to the text and try to answer the following questions:
1. What were the artists interested in from 5th to 15th century AD?
They are interested in creating respectand love for god.
3. How did Masaccio paint his paintings?
He drew things in perspective which makes pictures very realists
4. Why did the impressionists have to paint quickly?
Because natural light changes quickly, they had to paint quickly

16. 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

17. 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

18. Which century and artists do you learn in the text
name of age (time)
Western artists
Giotto di Bondone
The Middle Ages (5th to 15th AD)
The Renaissance (15th to 16th )
Masaccio
Impressionists: Manet(莫奈);
Da. Vince(达芬奇); Vincent. Van . Gogh(凡高)
Impressionism (late 19th to early 20th)
Modern art (20th to today)
and nowadays
Impressionists
Expressionist

19. Task 3: Group activity .
Now can you tell which period the following pictures belong to?

20. Paintings from the early Middle Ages full of religious symbols
the Middle Ages
Paintings from the early Middle Ages
full of religious symbols

21. By Giotto di Bondone Italy 1305
the Middle Ages
By Giotto di Bondone Italy 1305

22. Monalisa by Da Vinci
Focus
More On
Human
The
Renaissance

23. The Last Supper The complex expressions on the 12 disciples
when Jesus says someone has betrayed him.
The
Renaissance

24. by Masaccio in the 15 century
Renaissance
圣母悼子
by Masaccio in the 15 century
using perspective

25. Impressionism
The Pond by Monet, France

26. Modern Art
Abstract paintings by Picasso in 20th century

27. Modern Art In the 20th century, some paintings
try on concentrating on certain qualities of objects
Modern Art

28. Post-reading: write a summary. Do not include your own opinion, but be
sure to use our own words (about 30words.)
(不能添加自己的见解，但是要用自己的语言概括.
大约30个词左右）
The text describes four of the major movements in
western art over the past 1600 years and tells us
social ,political ,and cultural changes are related to
change in artistic style (31)

29. Write down three new things you have learned about western art:
I learned that :artistic style changes as a society’s
culture and values change.
In the middle ages most paintings had religious
subjects.
Before 1428 western painters didn’t know how to
draw in perspective.
At first people hated impressionist paintings

30. Questions:
Why has the style of Western art changed more often than Chinese art?
Art is influenced by beliefs, values of the people and the way of life. For example, during the Middle Ages, the main aim of painters was to represent religious themes because of the people's respect and love God. But in the Renaissance, people became focused more on humans and less on religion. In Europe in the late 19th century many new inventions were created and society changed greatly, so painting styles were different from the traditional style. But China has lived the similar way of life for a very long time, so Chinese art has changed less often.

31. Homework
1.predict what styles of painting there will be in the future.
2. Choose one of the above paintings and write a short description of it including its style, its painter and what you understand from it.