1. Unit 4 Painting the world. Module 2 The power of images

3. Task A

4. New lesson Van Gogh Get Close to

5. 1853 1864-68 1869 1879 1880 Birth Attends schools. Works as a dealer in a gallery. Becomes a missionary in a mining district. Begins learning the skills needed to be an artist.

6. 1886 1888 1890 Discovers impressionism and post- impressionism. Suffers from mental problems and cuts off his earlobe. Death 1888-90 In a mental hospital

8. Potato Eaters

9. Sunflowers

10. Self-portrait

11. Old Mill

12. Harvest

13. Starry Night

14. Q1: What nationality was Van Gogh? A. French. B. Belgium. C. Dutch. D. Danish. Q2: When was Van Gogh born? A. 30 March 1843. B. 30 March 1853. C. 30 March 1863. D. 30 March 1873.

15. Q3: What was Van Gogh first job? A. Painter. B. Missionary in Belgium. C. Language Teacher. D. Clerk in his uncle's art dealers in The Hague.

16. Q4: Which schools of painting did Vincent encounter in Paris? A. Expressionism and Symbolism. B. Surrealism and Fauvist. C. Abstract and Cubism. D. Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism.

17. Q5: In late 1888, Van Gogh had a breakdown. How did he manifest ( 证实） himself? A. He cut off his left ear and gave it to Gauguin. B. He cut off the tip of his nose and gave it to a prostitute. C. He cut off part of his own ear and gave it to a young girl. D. He started painting in bold colours.

18. Q6: When did Van Gogh die? A.29 July 1860. B. 29 July 1870. C. 29 July 1890. D. 29 July 1900. Q7: How did Van Gogh die? A. Overdose of anti-depressants. B. Gun wound to the stomach. C. Old age. D. Drowning.

19. Q8: How many paintings did Van Gogh sell in his lifetime? A.One. B. Five. C. Ten. D. We don't know for sure.

20. Task B: Vincent’s quotes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

21. 1. I am still far from being what I want to be. 2. I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. 3. An artist certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

22. 4. I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work. 5. You can't be at the pole and the equator( 赤 道 ) at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color. 6. That spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

23. 7. I am risking my life for my work. 8. I think I shall be able to influence it most effectively by working steadily on. 9. My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it. 10. The more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

24. 11. The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. 12. I want to touch people with my art. 13. The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. 14. It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

25. Starry starry night paint your palette _______and grey look out on a ____________day with eyes that know the ___________in my soul. Shadows on the hills sketch the ________and the daffodils catch the breeze and the ________chills in colors on the _______linen land. blue summer's darkness trees winter snowy Task C

26. And now I __________ what you tried to say to me and how you _________for your sanity and how you tried to set them free. They would not listen they did not know how perhaps they'll listen now. understand suffered

27. Starry starry night flaming _______that brightly blaze swirling ______in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue. Colors changing hue morning fields of amber grain weathered faces lined in _____ are soothed beneath the artist's _______hand. flowers clouds pain loving

28. And now I understand what you tried to say to me and how you suffered for your _______ and how you tried to set them free. They would not listen they did not know how perhaps they'll listen now. For they could not love you but still your love was _______ and when no _____was left in sight on that starry starry night. sanity true hope

29. You took your _____ as lovers often do, But I could have told you Vincent this world was never meant for one as ________ as you. Starry starry night portraits hung in empty halls frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can't forget. life beautiful

30. Like the stranger that you've met the ragged men in ragged clothes the silver thorn of bloody ______ lie crushed and broken on the virgin______. And now I think I know what you tried to say to me and how you suffered for your sanity and how you tried to set them free. They would not listen they're not ______ still perhaps they never will. rose snow listening