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Unit 1 Art
Reading and Thinking
What is art ?
Love of beauty is taste.
The creation of beauty is art.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
对美的喜爱是品味。
对美的创造是艺术。
—拉尔夫∙沃尔多∙爱默生
School of Athens
Brainstorm
When it comes to ART, what forms of art comes into your mind?
architecture
sculpture
dance
music
literature
painting
calligraphy
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School of Athens
Guessing Game: What’s the name of the painting?
Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
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School of Athens
Guessing Game: What’s the name of the painting?
Sunflower
Vincent Van Gogh
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School of Athens
Guessing Game: What’s the name of the painting?
Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh
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What do you know about this painting?
What?
Who?
when?
where?
who (in the painting?)
School of Athens
Raphael (拉斐尔)
1509 ~ 1511
in Vatican City
many philosophers like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle (they symbolised human pursuit of wisdom and truth)
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).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).
Raphael’s works of art
A short history of western painting
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Skim the passage, and what can you see?
Title: A short history of western painting
Subtitles:
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Impressionism
Modern Art
Pre-reading
time order
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While-reading
Read the passage and make a flow chart to show the changes in Western painting tyles.
What is a flow chart?
What information should be included in the flow chart?
A flow chart is a tool to show __________________________.
different processes or orders
Information such as time, development stages, characteristics, and characters should be included in the flow chart.
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Read for details
The Middle Ages
5th -15th Century AD
Characteristics:
Achievements:
often _