Unit 4 Amazing art Starting out & Understanding ideas 课件-2025-2026学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第三册

Amazing Art Book 3 Unit 4 What is art? What kind of art do you know？ Visual: painting/sculpture/photography/dance/architecture/landscape/acrobatics... Audio: music Visual&Audio: drama/movie/TV series... People express their ideas, thoughts , emotions and aesthetics(美感) through creative and various forms. What can art bring us ? What’s the value of art? experience various forms of beauty express thoughts show cultural meaning illustrate spiritual belief record history promote the development of human and society ... Cities for Art Fans Watch the video and answer the questions. (P49, A1) 1. What cities are introduced in the video? 2. What is each city famous for in the world of art? 3. What examples are mentioned? 4 Cities for Art Fans Cities for Art Fans Florence: a long history of art the birthplace of the Renaissance /rəˈneɪsəns/ great artists in history e.g. Michelangelo /ˌmaɪkəlˈændʒɪˌləʊ/ ; Botticelli /ˌbɑːtɪˈtʃeli/ art museums e.g. painting, sculpture, architecture, fashion 6 Cities for Art Fans New York City: modern art e.g. Museum of Modern Art; Guggenheim Museum; the galleries of Chelsea; the Lower East Side; Brooklyn Cities for Art Fans Beijing: a mixture of traditional and modern Chinese art e.g. the Palace Museum; the 798 Art Zone (the center of contemporary art) So next time you’re visiting a city, make sure to see what’s inside its museums and galleries. Not only will you learn more about art, you’ll see the city with new eyes. Task 2　Watch and Think What’s the suggestion for visiting a city? fill in the blanks. Cities for art fans If you’re a big fan of art, you mustn’t miss these three cities: Florence, New York City and Beijing. Known as the birthplace of the Renaissance, Florence is famous for its long history of art. Several of the greatest artists of that time studied or worked in Florence, including Michelangelo and Botticelli, both of whom left many artistic treasures in the city. In Florence, there are all kinds of art museums. If you’re interested in more recent artworks, where better to go than New York City? Visit the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum to see their amazing modern art collections. And if you want to check out what’s new, head to the art galleries of Chelsea, the Lower East Side and Brooklyn. Task 3　Complete the passage and read it carefully The exciting and original works there will make you think again about what art really is. For a taste of both old and new, head for Beijing.The city is a perfect mixture of traditional and modern Chinese art. While the Palace Museum is home to great traditional works, the 798 Art Zone serves as the centre of Chinese contemporary art. You could easily spend days in the city enjoying the various art exhibitions. So next time you’re visiting a city, make sure to see what’s inside its museums and galleries. Not only will you learn more about art, you’ll see the city with new eyes. Art Forms What forms of art are these works? Folk dance painting opera sculpture The Persistence of Memory: Hard objects become inexplicably limp in this bleak and infinite dreamscape, while metal attracts ants like rotting flesh. Mastering what he called “the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling,” Dalí painted with “the most imperialist fury of precision,” he said, but only “to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality.” It is the classic Surrealist ambition, yet some literal reality is included, too: the distant golden cliffs are the coast of Catalonia, Dalí’s home. 13 Turandot by Giacomo Puccini Opera Turandot《图兰朵》是意大利著名作曲家贾科莫·普契尼根据童话剧改编的三幕歌剧，是普契尼最伟大的作品之一。 Do you know its name? What do you know about it? What form of art is it? The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali Painting 《永恒的记忆》是西班牙超现实主义画家萨尔瓦多·达利于1931年创作的布面油画，现藏于美国纽约现代美术馆。 Do you know its name? What do you know about it? What form of art is it? The Thinker by Auguste Rodin Sculpture 《思想者》：法国雕塑家奥古斯特·罗丹创作于1880-1900年，藏于巴黎罗丹美术馆。 Do you know its name? What do you know about it? What form of art is it? Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, while the former has made us men. 3. What is the most impressive artwork, building or performance you’ve ever seen? Why did it make such an impression on you? paper cutting calligraphy embroidery Chinese painting seal cutting porcelain /ɪmˈbrɔɪdəri/ /ˈpɔːsəlɪn/ Art Forms Complete the passage with the words and expressions in Activity 4. (P56) Yesterday, I went to an amazing Chinese art festival. There were different stands where artists could demonstrate their skills and teach the visitors! It was definitely an exciting experience for a foreign student like me. What caught my attention first was a 15th-century qinghua bowl in a breathtaking exhibition of Chinese 1__________. It vividly illustrated a dragon playing with a ball. Complete the passage with the words and expressions in Activity 4. porcelain Then I tried some 2____________, that is, making images out of paper. It was difficult, but a lot of fun! With help from the artist, I managed to make one in the shape of a fish. Meanwhile, a woman at the next stand was using a needle and some thread to do some 3___________. It looked so pretty! Then I went into a section decorated like a traditional Chinese study, with two beautiful 4________________ of a pine tree and some bamboo hung on the walls. Complete the passage with the words and expressions in Activity 4. paper cutting embroidery Chinese paintings There was also an old man writing Chinese 5__________:his writing was so free and elegant! Another man sitting next to him showed me how 6___________ works. Chinese characters are carved into small squares of stone and stamped onto paper with ink. He made one for me with my name in Chinese – pretty awesome! I also came away with a beautifully embroidered handkerchief made of soft cotton fabric, and a porcelain cup and saucer painted in wonderful shade of blue. Complete the passage with the words and expressions in Activity 4. calligraphy seal cutting Lavf56.40.101 Tencent APD MTS null 148068.67 $