What do we call these things? What do we call these things? paintings

What do we call these things? What do we call these things? sculptures

Buildings/ Architectures What do we call these things? What do we call these things?

It makes the environment beautiful and our life colorful! art

Do you know the people below? They are……? Discussion

Leonardo da Vinci ( )

Qi Baishi

Masaccio( ), the first great painter of the Italian Renaissance, who discovered perspective in painting.

圣母子 圣三位一体 Masaccio’s works ：

Let’s see some famous Western painters.

Giotto di Bondone 乔托 · 迪 · 邦多纳 A Judas Kiss 犹大之吻

Sunflowers 向日葵 Van Gogh 凡高

Reading

1.What were the artists interested in from 5th to 15th century AD? 2. What new technique was discovered in the Renaissance? And who first used it? 3. Why did the impressionists have to paint quickly? Skimming Skim the text and answer the following questions.

1. What were the artists interested in from 5th to 15th century AD? Creating _______ and ____ for God. respect love

2. What new technique was discovered in the Renaissance? And who first used it? How to draw things in __________ was discovered. And ________ first used it. perspective Masaccio

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

1. Which of the following statements is true? 2. Why did most people hate the impressionists’ style of painting at first? 3. In the Renaissance, the painter Who discovered how to make paintings look more real by using perspective? 5. What does the text mainly tell us? Scanning Read the text and choose the correct for the following questions.

1. Which of the following statements is true? A. Paintings in Middle Ages were very abstract. B. Western art has changed a lot since the 5 th century. C. Impressionist paintings were painted mainly indoors. D. Modern art began in the Renaissance. Read the text and choose the correct answers.

2. In the Renaissance, painters___. A.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.

3. ____discovered how to make paintings look more real by using perspective. A. Giotto di Bondone. B. Masaccio. C. Claude Monet. D. Pablo Picasso

4. At first most people hated the impressionists’ style of painting, because they thought_____. A.their painting were very abstract. B.their painting were very realistic. C.they broke away from the traditional style of painting. D. their paintings were very ridiculous.

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

1.Western art has changed very little over the last seventeen century. 2.Paintings in the Middle Ages did not use perspective. 3.Impressionists painted landscapes. 1.Western art has changed very little over the last seventeen century. 2.Paintings in the Middle Ages did not use perspective. 3.Impressionists painted landscapes. True or False F T T

4.You can’t recognize any object in abstract modern art. 5.In the Renaissance most artists painted indoors. 6. Abstract art is still an art style today. T T T True or False

Detail reading Read the passage carefully. Then complete the chart.

StylesCharacteristic The Middle Ages The main aim of painters was to represent (1)_______________ ． The Renaissance People adopted (2)__________________ attitude to life and painters tried to paint people and nature as (3)_________________ ． Impressionism The Impressionists worked outdoors and were eager to show (4)___________________ fell on objects at different times of day, but many people said this kind of paintings were (5)________ ． Modern Art Some modern art is (6)________ ； some modern art is realistic. 三、阅读课文，然后完成下列表格 religious themes a more humanistic they really were how light and shadow ridiculous abstract

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

Middle Ages

Renaissance

Impressionism

Modern art

Assignment 1. Please review the new words in the passage we have just learned. 2. Surf the Internet to find out more information on western paintings. 3. Predict what styles of painting there will be in the future.