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2019人教版选择性必修三 一单元 拓展阅读1
Unit One Workbook Reading and Writing
The Starry Night
阅读简案
Cultural Notes
Vincent Willem van Gogh(梵高) (30 March 1853–29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life and died, largely unknown, at the age of 37 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Fast Reading
Mark each paragraph with a number
What does each paragraph talk about?
para 1 background of creating the work
para 2 description of the work
para 3 comments on the work
Detailed Reading
para 1
What happened in the following years
1853
1883
1886
1888
1889
1890
Gogh was born in Netherlands
He started to live as a professional painter
His brother invited to live in Paris
He move to the south of France
He wrote to his brother about the Starry Night
He died
Detailed Reading
para 1
Why did his brother invite him to live in Paris?
Where did he paint The Starry Night
His early work was dark and sad, so his brother hope the bright colors of the impressinist movement in Paris would influene his work
In a hospital in the south of France
Detailed Reading
para 2
Read and describe the items in the painting
tree
hills
vally
village
church
houses
windows
sky
moon
Venus
stars
lines
On the left side of The Starry Night, there is a large tree which shoots up from the ground like a dark fire. It reaches all the way to the top of the painting. In the background are rolling hills, with a small village in a vally. In the centre of the village is a white church. Its tower points up into the sy like a sharp knife. Here and there you can see houses with windows shining with yellow light. Above all this is dark blue sky. A quartre moon fills the top-rightcorner of the painting with yellow. Venus sits low near the tree. It burns with white light. Here and there in the sky above Venus are yellow, orange, and re