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UNIT 1 ART
Reading and Thinking
To understand the passage about history of western painting.
To appreciate Chinese and Western-style paintings and describe them.
To learn about different painting styles in Western art.
Love of beauty is taste.
The creation of beauty is art.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
爱美是一种品味;创造美是一种艺术。
UNIT 1 ART
What is art?
Look at some pictures to
ignite(点燃)
your thinking.
Chinese-style Paintings
Western-style Paintings
dance
music
Can you list some art styles?
sculpture
architecture
literature
movie
painting
calligraphy
paper cutting
photography
n.摄影
Fast reading
Main idea:
Western art has many different styles.
Para. 1
Para. 2-6
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Impressionism
Modern art
5th - 15th AD
14th -17th
late 19th – early 20th
20th - today
Read the title and the first paragraph to get the main idea and read the subtitles to learn the structure.
A short history of western painting
Careful reading
(1)the purpose of the western art:
(2)the features of the paintings:
works:
Main characters :
Changes in the 13th century :
The middle Ages para2
Giotto di Bondone
To teach people about Christianity
primitive
Two-dimensional
were made much larger than everyone else.
paintings showed real people in a real environment,
with realistic human faces and deep emotional impact
Giotto di Bondone
乔托·迪·邦多纳
犹大之吻
2. What are the features of paintings ?
Focused less on ______ ___
They began to _____________________________________
Two developments/breakthoughs/innovations:
a. ___________________ b. ___________________
religion themes
the use of perspective
the use of oil paints.
para3-5
adopt a more humanistic attitude to life.
1.Why did painters not focus more on religion at this period?
Because new ideas and values gradually replaced the old
ones from the middle ages.
3.What were the subject matters this period?
4.Three famous painters at this time
The emphasis increasingly shifted from religious themes to people