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Teaching objectives:
By the end of this period, you will be able to
1.know more about different painting styles in Western art.
2.figure out the main idea and the text organization
3.explore the characteristics and the development of western painting.
4.identify different western painting styles and share opinions about the value of art
Love of beauty is taste.
The creation of beauty is art.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unit 1 Art
What do you know about this painting?
School of Athens 《雅典学院》
The fresco shows many famous philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, and Pythagoras, though it is not clear who they all are. Although all shown together, they were not all contemporaries (同时期的;同一时代的).
School of Athens
The painting is of the fresco (湿壁画) painting School of Athens by Raphael (拉斐尔, 1483-1520). It was painted between 1509 and 1511 on a wall in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City (梵蒂冈城的使徒宫殿).
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Fresco painting
Fresco painting is a technique of painting on wet plaster (灰泥). Water is mixed with dry powdered paint (研磨好的干粉颜料), so the painting mixes with the plaster and becomes part of the wall.
该技法兴起于13世纪的意大利,16世纪趋于圆熟。到了画家拉斐尔(Raphael)时其技法已经完全成熟。
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对美的喜爱是品味。
对美的创造是艺术。
——沃尔多·爱默生
Love of beauty is taste.
The creation of beauty is art.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it comes to ART, what forms of art comes into your mind? Can you list some ?
Activity 1 warming up
art
sculpture
memorial
architecture
photography
painting
music
dance
literature
opera
movie
paper cutting
calligraphy
Activity 2 Prediction
Read the title and subtitles for main idea
The text mainly tells us _____ major styles of _______________ , showing the __________________ of it.
four
Western paintings
development/history
Activity 3 Scanning for structure
Can you divide the passage into different parts?
Introduction
Different periods of western painting
The Middle Ages(5th-15th)
The Renaissance(14th-17th)
Impressionism(19th-20th)
Modern Art (20th-)
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Para2-8
Para2
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