(共40张PPT)
Love of beauty is taste.
The creation of beauty is art.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
School of Athens
对美的喜爱是品味。
对美的创造是艺术。
—拉尔夫 沃尔多 爱默生
Unit 1 Art
Brainstorm
When it comes to ART, what forms of art comes into your mind Can you list some
1. To understand the passage about history of western painting.
2. To learn about different painting styles in different periods about Western art.
3. To appreciate Chinese and Western-style paintings and describe them.
A short history of
western painting
Can you match the painting and the painters
Monet
Look at other paintings and answer the questions.
What do you know about them
Do you know who painted them
Vincent Van Gogh (1853 — 1890) was a painter of Holland. He’s famous for his idea of emotional expression in painting. His great paintings include The Sunflowers, Starry Night and Wheatfield with Crows.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist. One of his most famous paintings, Guernica(格尔尼卡), is a very large painting showing the bombing of a Spanish town during the Spanish Civil War.
Claude Monet (1840 — 1926), was a French painter who was the initiator (创始人), leader, and unswerving (坚定的) advocate of the Impressionist style. Famous paintings include: Wheatstacks (干草堆), Sunrise (日出), Waterlilies (睡莲).
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath (博学大师), but is most well-known as a painter. Famous paintings include Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He is seen as an example of “Renaissance man”, a person whose skills and desire for knowledge and development know no bounds.
These great works show the changes in Western painting styles.
Read the passage and learn about the changes in Western painting styles.
Task 1
What does the passage mainly talk about
It mainly talks about the most important styles of ____________ in four periods, including the Middle Ages, ______________, _____________, ____________.
Western art
the Renaissance
Impressionism
Modern Art
answer the following questions:
1. What’s the function of the first paragraph
2. The author’s main purpose in writing this passage is _____.
3. What's the order of this article
Task 2
answer the following questions:
1. What’s the function of the first paragraph
A. It tells us what is art .
B. It stresses the importance of art .
C. It introduces the topic and the purpose the passage .
D. It tells us how the Impressionist paintings developed.
Task 2
2. The author’s main purpose in writing this
passage is _____.
A. to advertise the course of painting
B. to make you amused
C. to tell you how to paint pictures
D. to introduce you some information about western painting
3. What's the order of this article
A. time order
B. spatial order(空间顺序)
C. logical order(逻辑顺序)
Fast Reading:
Q: How many periods of the paintings are mentioned in this text What are they
Task 3
time order 时间顺序
Time
Period
The Middle Ages
20th century--today
The Renaissance
Impressionism
Modern art
14th--17th century
late 19th--early 20th century
5th--15th century
Choose the best answers.
1. Which is the purpose of Western art during the Middle Ages
A. Painting realistic scenes.
B. Teaching people about Christianity.
C. Showing real people in a real environment.
D. Showing deep emotional impact.
2. Which of the following artists doesn’t belong to the Renaissance
A. Masaccio. B. Raphael.
C. Claude Monet. D. Leonardo da Vinci.
3. What caused the breakthrough during the Renaissance
A. The use of perspective.
B. The invention of photography.
C. The analyses of the shapes in the natural world.
D. The abstract art.
4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text
A. Artists in the Middle Ages began to adopt a more humanistic attitude to life.
B. Rembrandt gained a reputation as a master of shadow and light.
C. Impression, Sunrise was created by Renoir.
D. Modern artists are sure about the future of art.
Task4
Read the passage and make a flow chart to show the changes in Western painting styles.
The Middle Ages
The
Renaissance
Impressionism
Modern
Art
· religious
themes
Identify change
To help identify the changes that an article talks about, look for words that express change, such as development, breakthrough, innovation, begin, and shift, and the construction from … to …
Detailed Reading
Age Main aim Characteristic Artist
________________________ (5th to 15th century AD) to represent ______________________ full of ___________ ___________ in a more __________ way (in the 13th century) __________
__________________________ (14th to 17th century) to paint ________ ________ as they really were adopted a more ____________ attitude to life painted in ____________ Masaccio
The
Middle Ages
religious
themes
religious
symbols
realistic
Giotto di
Bondone
Religious
_________themes
Find Work(s) of the Middle Ages
Detailed Reading
Age Main aim Characteristic Artist
__________________________ (5th to 15th century AD) to represent ________________________ full of ___________ ___________ in a more __________ way (in the 13th century) ___________
______________________ (14th to 17th century) to paint ________ ________ as they really were adopted a more ____________ attitude to life painted in ____________ Masaccio
people and nature
perspective
The
Renaissance
humanistic
Find Work(s) of the Renaissance
______ theme
oil paints
humanistic
Detailed Reading
Age Main aim Characteristic Artist
____________(late 19th to _____________________) to show how _____________________ fell on objects at different times of the day not as ________ as paintings of early painters controversial at first ____________________
____________ (20th century to today) to concentrate on certain ____________ of the object or to make the paintings look like _________ ______________ realistic ___________
early 20th century
light and shadow
detailed
Impressionism
Claude Monet & Renoir
Find Work(s) of
Impressionism
full of light and shadow
scences of
nature or daily life
Detailed Reading
Age Main aim Characteristic Artist
_____________ (late 19th to __________________________) to show how ________________________ fell on objects at different times of the day not as ___________ as paintings of early painters controversial at first ___________
____________ (20th century to today) to concentrate on certain ____________ of the object or to make the paintings look like _________ _____________ realistic ___________
Modern Art
qualities
abstract
photographs
Picasso
Find Work(s) of
Modern art
abstract
art
A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN PAINTING
What is Western art It is hard to give a precise definition. As there have been so many different styles of Western art, it is impossible to describe them all in a short text. Perhaps the best way to understand Western art is to look at the development of Western painting over the centuries.
?什么是西方艺术?很难给出一个确切的定义。由于西方艺术有如此多的不同风格,在一篇简短的文章中把它们全部描述出来是不可能的。也许理解西方艺术的最好方法是看一看西方绘画在过去几个世纪中的发展.
A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN PAINTING
What is Western art It is hard to give a precise definition. As there have been so many different styles of Western art, it is impossible to describe them all in a short text. Perhaps the best way to understand Western art is to look at the development of Western painting over the centuries.
?什么是西方艺术?很难给出一个确切的定义。由于西方艺术有如此多的不同风格,在一篇简短的文章中把它们全部描述出来是不可能的。也许理解西方艺术的最好方法是看一看西方绘画在过去几个世纪中的发展.
The Middle Ages (from the 5th to the 15th century)
During the Middle Ages, the purpose of Western art was to teach people about Christianity. Thus, artists were not interested in painting realistic scenes. Their works were often primitive and two- dimensional, and the main characters were often made much larger than everyone else to show their importance. This began to change in the 13th century with Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337).While his paintings still had religious themes,they showed real people in a real environment. In particular,his paintings are set apart from other paintings by their realistic human faces and deep emotional impact.
Middle Ages
purpose
Christianity
characteristics
artists
works
primitive
two-dimentional
characters
religious
realistic
while
In particular
13th century
human faces
emotional impact
The Renaissance (from the 14th to the 17th century)
New ideas and values gradually replaced old ones from the Middle Ages. As a result, painters concentrated less on religious themes. They began to adopt a more humanistic attitude to life. An important breakthrough during this period was the use of perspective by Masaccio (1401-1428).Influential painters such as Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519),Michelangelo (1475-1564),and Raphael (1483-1520) built upon Giotto and Masaccio's innovations to produce some of the greatest art that Europe had ever seen.
Period The Renaissance (from the 14th to the 17th century)
Cause of change
Artist
Feature
New ideas and values replaced old ones from the Middles Aages.
Masaccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt
concentrated less on religious themes;
adopted a more humanistic attitude to life;
the use of perspective;
the use of oil paints;
look like photographs with deep colours and realism;
portraits of people of high rank;
Impressionism (late 19th to early 20th century)
The development of Western art slowed until the invention of photography in the mid 19th century. After that, paintings were no longer needed to preserve what people and the world looked like. Hence, painters had to find a new way of looking at their art. From this, Impressionism emerged in France. The name of this new movement came from the painting by Claude Monet (1840-1926) called Impression,Sunrise. In this work,Monet's aim was to convey the light and movement in the scene—the subjective impression the scene gave him—but not a detailed record of the scene itself .
Slow
After that
no longer
Hence
new way
From this
Monet
convey
subjective
detailed
Impressionism