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Unit 1 Art
Reading and Thinking
Learning objective
In today’s class, we have:
learned about a short history of Western painting and explored artists’ intention of creation;
analyzed the main idea, structure and stylistic feature of the passage;
summarized and compared the text information by using visualized tool and relevant learning strategies;
summarized the unique features of Western painting history and paintings in different periods through detailed reading.
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本单元的引言出自美国思想家拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生的散文《论美》(Beauty)。在《论美》一文中,爱默生指出:美是人类灵魂的一种需求。人人都有爱美之心,而艺术家不满足于对美的仰慕之情。对美的追求和热爱,激励着艺术家不断创造作品,以新的形式去表现美。这种美的创造就是“艺术”。
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
—— Ralph Waldo Emerson
对美的喜爱是品位。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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As for painting, which Western artists do you know?
Vincent Van Gogh 梵高
Giotto di Bondone 乔托·迪·邦多纳
Leonardo da Vinci 达芬奇
Claude Monet 莫奈
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As for painting, which Chinese artists do you know?
Qi Baishi 齐白石
Xu Beihong 徐悲鸿
Gu Kaizhi 顾恺之
Zhao Mengfu 赵孟頫
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Guessing Game: What’s the name of the painting?
Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
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Guessing Game: What’s the name of the painting?
Sunflower
Vincent Van Gogh
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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?)
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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