1. Unit 1 Art
A Short History of
Western Painting
广东 林慧贤

2. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a speaking picture.
(画是无言的诗，诗是有声的画。）
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
(好的画犹如佳肴，可以品其美味，却无法解释。）

3. Can you name some famous painting and painters both at home and abroad?
齐白石
1861～1957

5. 张大千
1899～1983

7. 徐悲鸿
1895～1953

9. 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….
Let’s know some famous Western artists!

15. Skimming and Scanning Task1: 1. What’s the main idea of the text?
A. A history of Chinese painting
B. How to draw pictures
C. Different people, different paintings.
D. Art is influenced by the ways of life and beliefs of the people
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.

16. Skimming and Scanning Task2:
Skim the first paragraph to find the sentence that tells the reader what the text is going to be about.
Consequently, this text will describe only a few of the main styles, starting from the 5th century AD.

17. Detailed Reading: Task 1:
How many different time periods are mentioned in the text? What are they?
The Middle Ages (5th to 15th century AD)
The Renaissance (15th to 16th century)
Impressionism (late 19th to early 20th century)
Modern art (20th century to today)

18. Detailed Reading: Task 2: What is the main idea of each time period?
A. The styles of painting were influenced by the way of life.
B. The main aim of painters was to represent religious themes.
C. Where modern art came from and the existing modern art styles.
D. People held new ideas and the painting styles were changed.

19. Have a discussion with your partners to choose the correct answers.
Periods
Main ideas
The Middle Ages B
A few of
the main
styles
The Renaissance D
Impressionism A
Modern art C

20. Detailed Reading: Task 3:
Listen to the tape, after listening, we’ll do some T or F questions as a competition.
If the sentence is wrong , Please find the right sentence on your books (which paragraph, which line).

21. Competition :
1. The style of Chinese art changed more than western art.
(F)
2. It could be possible to describe all different styles of western art in a short text.
(F)
3. The artists in the Middle ages were very
interested in showing nature and people
as they really were.
(F)

22. Competition:
4. Renaissance painters tried to paint things in a realistic way.
(T)
5. The first person to use perspective in
his paintings was Picasso.
(F)
6. In the late 19th, Europe was still a mostly agricultural society.
(F)

23. Competition : 7. Impressionists painted their pictures mainly indoors.
(F)
8. At first, people didn’t like the
impressionists’ paintings.
(T)

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

28. 6. 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. 7. ____discovered how to make paintings look more real by using perspective.
Giotto di Bondone.
Masaccio.
Claude Monet.
D. Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

33. Time: Late 19th to early 20th
Ages: impressionism
Time: Late 19th to early 20th
Artist: not mentioned
Feature: Not detailed painted outdoors
Painted changes in light

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

35. Text --- understanding:
Activity 1:
Which sentences can be replaced by the following ones?
1.Art changes with the way of life and beliefs of the people. And unlike Europe,
The way of life in China has remained almost the same for a very long time.
Art is influenced by the way of life and
beliefs of the people, And China,
unlike Europe, has followed a similar
way of life for a very long time.

36. Text --- understanding:
2.When they were created, the impressionists’ paintings caused public argument. But now people agree that they are the beginning of “modern art”.
At the time they were created, the
impressionists’ s paintings Were
controversial but today they are
accepted as the beginning of what we
now call “modern art”.

37. Text --- understanding:
Activity 2:
Translate this sentence into Chinese.
If the rules of perspective had not been discovered, people would not have been able to paint such realistic pictures.
如果没有发现透视法，人们就不可能画出
如此逼真的画。

38. Post ---- reading: After class ,please think about this question:
Why has the style of Western art
changed more often than Chinese
art?

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

40. Middle Ages

41. Renaissance

42. Impressionism

43. Modern art

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

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

48. The best of Manhattan’s art galleries
Unit 1
The best of Manhattan’s art galleries

49. Guggenheim Museum

50. Metropolitan Museum of Art

51. Whitney Museum of American Art

52. The Frick Collection

53. Museum of Modern Art

57. 上海藏宝艺术画廊

58. 故宫博物馆

59. 卢浮宫
Louvre Museum

60. 大英博物馆
British Museum

61. Metropolitan Museum
大都会博物馆

62. 冬宫博物馆
Winter Palace

63. New Museum of Contemporary Art
纽约新当代艺术馆

64. The Best of Manhattan’s Art Galleries

65. √ Pre reading 1.Where might you read such a passage?
in a newspaper B. in a magazine
C. in a guide book D. in a novel √
2.Who do you think the text was written for?
Tourists and art gallery visitors.

66. Fast Reading
Match the numbers on the map with the museums.

67. ① ② ③ ④ ⑤ Guggenheim Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art ③ ④
The Frick Collection
street ⑤
avenue
Museum of Modern Art

68. Careful reading
Read the passage more carefully and complete the chart below.
name
Which centuries?
What countries?
Art collections
Whitney Museum of American Art
America
Museum of Modern Art
contemporary American painting and sculpture
Contemporary (mainly art by living artists)
late 19th century to the 21st century
western paintings by famous artists
western countries

69. from ancient to modern times
Metropolitan Museum of Art
from ancient to modern times
Guggenheim Museum
western countries
The Frick Collection
the visual delights of art and ancient ways of living
all over the world
modern (from late 19th century onwards)
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings
pre-twentieth century Western paintings
pre-twentieth century