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

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. —Ralph Waldo Emerson School of Athens 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 Unit 1 Art Game 1：Brainstorm When it comes to ART, what forms of art comes into your mind? Can you list some ? dance music sculpture architecture calligraphy literature painting Monet Game 2：Match the painting and the painters How can you tell them from each other? Vincent Van Gogh (1853 — 1890) was a painter of Holland. He’s famous for his idea of emotional expression in painting. His great paintings include The Sunflowers, Starry Night and Wheatfield with Crows. 4 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist. One of his most famous paintings, Guernica(格尔尼卡), is a very large painting showing the bombing of a Spanish town during the Spanish Civil War. Claude Monet (1840 — 1926), was a French painter who was the initiator (创始人), leader, and unswerving (坚定的) advocate of the Impressionist style. Famous paintings include: Wheatstacks (干草堆), Sunrise (日出), Waterlilies (睡莲). Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath (博学大师), but is most well-known as a painter. Famous paintings include Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He is seen as an example of “Renaissance man”, a person whose skills and desire for knowledge and development know no bounds. Want to know more information about them? 7 1. To understand the passage about history of western painting. 2. To learn about different painting styles in different periods about Western art. 3. To appreciate Chinese and Western-style paintings and describe them. Read the passage and finish your paper in 15minutes. Activity 1: Read the passage and answer the following questions. 1.What does the passage mainly talk about? It mainly talks about the most important styles of Western art in four periods, including the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Impressionism and Modern Art. 2.How is the passage organized? In time order. 3.EDCBA 4.BDCCA