Unit 7 Art Lesson 1 Masterpieces课件-2021-2022学年高中英语北师大版（2019）必修第三册

Unit 7 Art Lesson 1 Period 1 Warming-up What do you think is the highest honor for an artist? One of the highest honors for an artist is to be considered a master. Artists desire to create artwork that will be remembered forever. Warming-up The following are some of the most famous paintings of all time. Can you recognize them? (name, time, brief description) Warming-up A fifteenth century mural painting done in Milan by da Vinci, The Last Supper depicts the final feast Jesus had with his Twelve Apostles during which he announces one of them would betray him. The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) Warming-up One of Vermeer’s masterpieces, this painting utilizes a pearl earring as a focal point. It is sometimes known as “the Dutch Mona Lisa” or “the Mona Lisa of the North”. Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) Johannes Vermeer Warming-up Whistler painted his mother, Anna McNeill Whistler, when the original model failed to come to the appointment. The painting was not well-received at first, but the public showed much respect for it, which quickly restored Whistler’s honor. Whistler’s Mother (1871) James McNeill Whistler Warming-up Considered to be the best and most famous work of Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night was created from memory and portrays the sight outside the window of his sanitarium room at night. The Starry Night (1889) Vincent van Gogh Warming-up In a series of paintings reproduced with various media known as The Scream, Edvard Munch conveys an extremely anxious and trembling person standing at the fenced edge of a road. The scene was identified as the view from a road overlooking Oslo, Norway. The Scream (1893) Edvard Munch Warming-up Pablo Picasso’s detest of the Spanish Civil War is manifested in an art piece known as Guernica. The piece was commissioned by the Spanish Republican government to portray the pain and suffering caused by wars. Guernica would become a