内容正文:
Reading and Thinking
Unit 1
Art
Learn about different painting styles in Western art
人教版2019选择性必修第三册
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Contents
Lead-in
Read for main idea and structure
Read for details
Self-evaluation
Homework
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✎ Learning objectives ✎
get to know the four main styles of painting and their features;
figure out the changes in Western painting styles;
appreciate Western paintings and distinguish them with what you learn in this period;
share the meaning of art and why people create art.
Lead-in
✎ Lead-in ✎
What do you know about the painting? Do you know who paint it?
What can you see in the painting? Who are these people? What are they doing?
Look and discuss
The photo is the fresco painting School of Athens by Raphael(1483-1520).
Many ancient Greek people gathering in the hall.They are famous philsophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Socrates and Pythagoras. They are debating or thinking or listening to others.
✎ Lead-in ✎
Why did the painter put all these people living at different times together?
Why do you think the painter created this work of art? What idea did the painter want to convey?
Look and discuss
Though these people were from different times, they all symbolised human pursuit of widsom and truth.
To praise the so-called “Golden Age” in history and convey a yearning for a free and open future.
✎ Lead-in ✎
Look and discuss
What is art?
Why do people create art?
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
✎ Talk about some Western paintings before reading ✎
Look at the paintings below. Discuss your feelings and try to put the paintings in time order.
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2
3
4
Read for main idea and structure
✎ Read for main idea and structure ✎
1. Read the title and the first paragraph to get the main idea.
The text mainly tells us ______________ major styles of _____________________, showing the __________________ of it.
Western paintings
four
development/history
✎ Read for main idea and structure ✎
2. Read the subtitles to learn the structure.
Part 1(Para.1) A.Modern Art
Part 2(Para. 2) B.The Middle Ages
Part 3(Paras. 3~5) C.Introduction
Part 4(Paras. 6~7) D.The Renaissance
Part 5(Para. 8) E.Impressionism
3. Why does the author use subtitles in the passage?
The author uses the subtitles to clearyly show the main content and the structure of the text .
✎ Read for main idea and structure ✎
4. Draw the text structure and try to use a timeline to show how the Western painting developed.
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5th 14th 17th 19th 20th
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Impressionism
Modern Art
Read for details
✎ Read for details ✎
1. Read the text carefully to find out more details about Western painting styles.
Period Time Characteristics Famous painters&achievements
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Impressionism
Mordern Art
Check the answers and try to retell the information in the chart.
Period Time Characteristics Famous painters&achievements
The Middle Ages from the 5th to 15th century religious themes
primitive and 2D
Main characters were larger than everyone else
change in the13th century Giotto di Bondone
His paintings showed real people in a real environment.
The Renaissance from the 14th to the 17th century humanistic
accurate portraits
perspective
oil paints Masaccio: the use of perspective.
Leonardo da Vinci ,
Michelangelo, Raphael and Rembrandt:oil paints.
Impressionism late 19th to early 20th century subjective impressions of the scene
inner warmth and humanity Claude Monet: convey the light and movement in the scene.
Renoir:sought to show the inner warmth and humanity.
Mordern Art from the 20th century to today realistic, dream-like quality, abstract Picasso:Cubism
✎ Read for details ✎
2. Read the text again to answer the following questions.
(1) What is the purpose of western art in the middle ages?(Para.2)
(2) Why did painters not focus more on religion at Renaissance period?(Para.3-5)
(3) What’s the background of the social change during this period?(Para.6-7)
During the Middle Ages, the purpose of Western art was to teach people about Christianity.
New ideas and values gradually replaced old ones from the Middle Ages. Poeple began to adopt a more humanistic attitude to life.
Photography was invented in the mid-19th century. After that, paintings were no longer needed to preserve what people and the world looked like.
Why have Western painting styles been changing?
New ideas and value gradually replaced old ones.
Innovations brings new tools, inventions and techniques.
✎ Read for details ✎
Why have Western painting styles been changing?
New ideas and value gradually replaced old ones.
Innovations brings new tools, inventions and techniques.
✎ Read for details ✎
✎ Read for details ✎
✎ Application ✎
Match the paintings below with the correct period of art and give the reasons.
Impressionism
The Middle Age
Modern Art
The Renaissance
✎ Application ✎
Match the paintings below with the correct period of art and give the reasons.
Impressionism
The Middle Age
Modern Art
The Renaissance
✎ Critical thinking ✎
What is art? Why do people create art?
✎ Language points ✎
Key expressions in the text.
给出明确的定义
做某事最好的方式
尤其,特别
使区别于,使不同于
结果
专注于,集中注意力于
对……采取……的态度
在……基础上发展
看起来像
达到顶峰
赢得荣誉
从……转向……
give a precise definition
the best way to do sth
in particular
set apart from
as a result
concentrate on
adopt a/an...attitude to
build upon
look like
reach its hight
gain areputation
shift from ... to...
✎ Language points ✎
Key expressions in the text.
people ofhigh rank
way of doing sth
a detailed record of
focus on
seek to do sth (seek-sought-sought)
not just... but...
as well
exist in
turn to
attempt to do sth
地位高的人
做某事的方式
详细的记录
专注于,集中注意力于
力求做某事
不仅是……而且是……
也(置于句尾)
存在于
转向
试图/尝试做某事
✎ Language points ✎
Key sentences in the text.Translate them into Chinese and try to recite them.
What is Western art? It is hard to give a precise definition.
Perhaps the best way to understand Western art is to look at the development of Western painting over the centuries.
New ideas and values gradually replaced old ones from the Middle Ages.
After that, paintings were no longer needed to preserve what people and the world looked like.
What they attempted to do was no longer show reality, but instead to ask the question, “What is art?”
Self-evaluation
✎ Self-evaluation ✎
Things I can do Scores
I can tell the four main styles of Western painting and their features. 5 3 1
I can tell the changes in Western painting styles and the reasons. 5 3 1
I can apprecaite Western paintings and distinguish them with what I learn in this class. 5 3 1
I can share the meaning of art and why people create art. 5 3 1
Homework
✎ Homework ✎
Choose a western painting that you like. Shoot a video and describe the painting. Share your video on your social media.
Thank You!
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