1. Unit One Art

2. Warming up and reading

3. painting
photography
pottery
sculpture
calligraphy
literature
embroidery
art
fashion
music
opera
architecture
paper cutting
There are great v_________ of art forms.
arieties

4. Have you ever wished you could paint as well as a professional artist?
brush
canvas
drawing
oil painting
watercolour painting
quick sketch
palette
easel
paints

5. How much do you know about the Chinese art?
landscape _______ figure drawing ________
water color ______ oil painting ________
handicraft _______ carvings ________ murals _______ pottery __________
sketch______ imitating________
charcoal drawing______
life drawing ________
folk paper cutting ________
风景画
人物画
水彩画 油画
手工艺 雕刻 壁画 陶艺 速写 临摹 素描 写生
民间剪纸

6. A Short
History of
Western Painting

7. 1. What’s the main idea? Fast reading:
The style of Western art has __________ a lot with time going by. Art is influenced by the ________and_______ of a people.
changed
customs
faith

8. A Short History of Western Painting
2. How many styles of Western painting are mentioned in the text? What are they?
Period
Time
The Middle Ages
AD5th---15th
The Renaissance
15th---16th
Impressionism
Late 19th---early 20th
Modern art
20th ---today
A Short History of Western Painting

9. Careful reading
The Middle Ages
天使报喜
织锦画
圣母与圣婴

10. respect and love for God
Period
Painting style
Characteristic
Representa-
tive painter
5th--15th century
Main aim: to ____________
_________________
Created a feeling of _________________________
represent religious themes
The Middle Ages
Giotto di Bondone
respect and love for God

11. Giotto di Bondone
乔托·迪·邦多纳
犹大之吻
The kiss of Judas

12. the Renaissance

13. Painted_______________as____________________;
Period
Painting style
Characteristic
Representative painter
15th--16th century
Began to___________ less on religious themes and ______a more __________ attitude to life.
Painted_______________as____________________;
Two important discoveries:
______________________
concentrate
The Renaissance
adopt
humanistic
Masaccio
people and nature
they really were
perspective; oil painting

14. Masaccio ( ),
the first great painter of
the Italian Renaissance,
whose innovations(创新) in the use of scientific perspective inaugurated（使开始）the modern era in painting.

15. Masaccio的作品：
Madonna with
Child and Angels
Crucifixion
(十字架）

16. Leonardo da Vinci
( )
Mona Lisa

17. (达·芬奇 Leonardo Da Vinci)
最后的晚餐 Lord's Supper
(达·芬奇 Leonardo Da Vinci)

18. Michelangelo
(1475－1564)
米开朗基罗
Creation of Adam

19. 莫瑞桥--阿尔弗莱德·西斯莱
赛艇--局斯塔夫·卡耶博特
蓬图瓦兹. 埃尔米塔日的坡地
--卡米耶·毕沙罗
Impressionism

20. how light and shadow fell on objects
Period
Painting style
Characteristic
Representative painter
The first to paint __________;
Wanted to show____________
___________________________
Paintings were not so ____________as before.
outdoors
late 19th-early 20th century
how light and shadow fell on objects
Impressionism
detailed

21. 日出·印象 (油画/1872年-1873年) 　　　
法国印象派画家
克劳特-莫奈( )

22. 花园中的女人 (油画/1866年-1867年) 克劳德·莫奈
花园中的女人 (油画/1866年-1867年)　　　 克劳德·莫奈

23. Sunflower 凡高
《向日葵》

24. Starry Night 凡高Van Gogh

25. 开花的栗树Chestnut blooming 凡高 (Vincent Van Gogh)

26. Modern Art

27. Scores of a photograph Period Characteristic
Painting style
Characteristic
Representative painter
20th century
- today
_________modern art styles;
Some abstract: not paint as _________________;concentrate on_________________________
Some realistic: look almost like
___________________________
Scores of
Modern art
we see with our eyes
certain qualities of the object
a photograph

28. (Picasso毕加索)
　梦(Dream)

29. 坐着的女人 (Seated Woman)
(Picasso)

30. 戴帽的自画像--塞尚作
被称为”现代艺术的起源”

31. 白杨树 (油画/约作于1879年-1880年) 　　　保罗·塞尚

32. 2. Choose the words or phrases that have the similar meanings to the underlined words in the text.

33. 1) People began to concentrate less on religious themes and adopt a more humanistic attitude to life.
A. put one’s hands …on
B. focus… on
C. depended…on
2) When people first saw his paintings they were convinced they were looking through a hole in the wall at a real scene.
A. suggested B. told
C. persuaded to believe

34. 3) In the late 19th century, Europe changed a great deal from a mostly agricultural society to a mostly industrial one.
a great many B. a lot C. plenty of
4) At the time they were created, the impressionists’ paintings were controversial, but today they are accepted as the beginning of what we now call “modern art”.
A. hard to believe B. easy to accept
C. causing public argument

35. 5) Some modern art is abstract; that is, the painter does not attempt to paint objects as we see them with our eyes.
A. intend B. tried C. hope
6) Who can predict what painting styles there will be in the future.
A. tell B. guess
C. say in advance

36. Post-reading Choose the correct answer
1) 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.

37. 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.

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

39. 4). Who began to paint religious scenes in a more realistic style?
A. Giotto di Bondone.
B. Masaccio.
C. Claude Monet.
D. Pablo Picasso.

40. 5). At first most people hated the impressionists’ style of painting, because _____.
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.

41. Retelling
Styles in Western art have changed __________. Art is _________ by the ________ and ______________.
During the Middle Ages, the main ____ of painters was to _________________ themes. A typical picture at this time was full of religious symbols, which created a feeling of ______ and ____ for God.
many times
influenced
customs
faith of a people
aim
represent religious
respect
love
In the Renaissance, people began to____________ less on religious themes and _____a more __________ attitude to life. 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.
concentrate
adopt
humanistic
people
nature as
were
perspective
convinced
looking through at

42. 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
quickly
outdoors as
detailed as those
Today people accept _____________ ________ as the _________ of _______ _______. Some modern art is _______while some is _______.
impressionists’
paintings
beginning
modern
art
abstract
realistic

43. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a speaking picture.
画是无言的诗, 诗是有声的画。
2. 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。

44. Life is short; art is long.
When viewing a painting, the more you enter into the painting, the more you forget yourself and the more you meet and discover yourself.
Again, this is true of any activity, the more you give of yourself to it, the more you forget yourself and the more you come closer to your true self, that then is the art of living!
Life is short; art is long.