Unit 1 Art Reading and Thinking 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第三册

ART Unit 1 1 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 Lead-in When it comes to ART, what forms of art comes into your mind? dance literature music opera film painting architecture sculpture ① What do you know about the painting? ② Who painted it? School of Athens Raphael (1483–1520) Pre-reading 亚里士多德 柏拉图 苏格拉底 毕达哥拉斯 拉斐尔 1. What can you see in the painting? More than 50 scholars. 2. Who are these people? They are excellent scholars who symbolised human pursuit of wisdom and truth. 3. Why do you think Raphael created this work of art? To praise the so-called “Golden Age” in the history. A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN PAINTING 1. What’s the main idea of the passage? A. How religious paintings developed. B. How Western art developed. C. How oil paintings developed. D. How Impressionist paintings developed. Fast reading A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN PAINTING 2. The author’s main purpose in writing this passage is to _____. A. to advertise the course of painting B. to make you amused C. to tell you how to paint pictures D. to introduce you some information about western painting 3. What's the order of this article? A. time order B. spatial order C. logical order Fast reading What is Western art? It is hard to give a precise definition. As there have been so many different styles of Western art, it is impossible to describe them all in a short text. Perhaps the best way to understand Western art is to look at the development of Western painting over the centuries. Para.1 A Short History of Western Painting it 作形式主语，真正主语是to give 和to describe to understand 作the way 的后置定语 to look at 作表语 3. over the centuries 在过去的几个世纪中 9 The Middle Ages (from the 5th to the 15th century) (Para.2) During the Middle Ages, t