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Starting out
Understanding ideas
高中英语新外延
选择性必修一 Unit 4
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one of the nine ancient goddesses who
encouraged poetry, music and other branches of
art and literature in ancient Greek and Roman stories.
a person or spirit that gives a writer, painter, etc.
ideas and the desire to create things; a source of
inspiration.
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高中英语新外延
选择性必修一 Unit 4
1 Which artist the video about? Which of his works are mentioned?
2 What inspired the artist?
1 Which artist the video about?
Which of his works are mentioned?
2 What inspired the artist?
The video is about Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
Mona Lisa and many drawings and notes of his ideas for his inventions including a parachute(降落伞), a form of helicopter and a strange flying machine with flapping(挥动的) wings.
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The natural world, such as birds and their mysterious power of flight.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(May 22nd, 1813—February 13th, 1883)
German composer
a romantic music master
At the same time, because of the complexity of his political and religious thoughts (anti-Semitism), he became the most controversial figure in the history of European music.
Auguste Rodin
(November 12th, 1840—November 17th, 1917)
French sculpture artist who is regarded as the greatest realistic sculpture artist in 19th century and early 20th century.
had a deep understanding of the beautiful and vivid techniques of ancient Greek sculpture.
An epoch-making figure in the history of western sculpture
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Zhu Guangqian
(19 September 1897 – 6 March 1986)
an educator, a translator, the founder of the study of aesthetics in 20th-century China
Masterpieces: The Psychology of Art (文艺心理学), On Poetry (诗论), and A History of Western Aesthetics (西方美学史), Letters on Beauty (谈美书简) and so on.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso
(October 25th, 1881—April 8th, 1973)
Spanish painter, sculptor, founder of Cubist School
one of the main representatives of modern art in the 20th century, who is called