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Unit 4 Amazing art 返首页 2 名言潮语 Behind a remarkable scholar one finds, not infrequently, a mediocre man, and behind a mediocre artist quite often a very remarkable man - Nietzsche 在一个杰出的学者背后,往往是一个平庸的人,而在一个平庸的 艺术家的背后,往往是一个非常杰出的人 尼采 返首页 话题感悟 a poor artist wanted to enter an important painting competition. One day he took his paints and brushes to a local cafe to drink his coffee and get inspiration The district where he lived was full of trees which formed a leafy avenue. as he looked around him, he noticed how the shadows of the trees were growing longer as time passed. He decided to paint them in the style of the Impressionists. Taking the brushes from 返首页 8 美文欣赏 Some people like modern art, while others say that is rubbish but a cleaner who works in the Tate Gallery in London isn't able to tell the difference. The woman whose name isnt known, mistook a work of art by the german painter Gustav Metzger as a bag of rubbish, and threw it out with other bags. Embarrassed officials at the museum had to call a meeting with cleaners to explain which things should not be touched. However, to make sure of not happening again, they covered Mr. Metzger's work with a coloured cloth every evening. In this way the cleaners would realize they should not touch 返首页 9 This is not the first time that museum cleaners have had trouble distinguishing exhibits from rubbish. In 2001, in another London gallery a cleaner threw away a work by the well- known british artist damien Hirst.It was an arrangement of empty beer bottles, coffee cups, and overflowing ashtrays which was meant to indicate the chaos in the life of an artist. However, cleaners don' t always throw things away sometimes they clean them This was the case with a dirty bathtub which was on show in a gallery in Germany. Without asking what the bathtub was doing in the gallery, the cleaners simply washed it clean 返首页 探索发现 1. What kind of modern art do you like best? Give an example 2. how do you find art attracts you ? list o