课标人教实验版高二 Module 6

Unit 1

A short history

of western painting

A short history

of western painting

ReadingReading

广东 林慧贤

What do we call these things? ----What do we call these things? ----

paintingspaintings

painting

painter

Brain Storm

Can you name some famous

painting and painters?

Can you match the painting and the painters?

Monet

Can you tell the ages of the paintings?

Xu Beihong

Who are your favorite painters from China?

Qi Baishi

Zhang Daqian

Why do you like them?

…for their painting is very vivid, or

their paintings show the real life of the

nature or the people in the old days….

Comparison of Western and Chinese painting.Time Western Chinese

5th to 15th century AD

15th to 16th centuryLate 19th century to early 20th century

20th century to todayWhich do you think has a greater change? Why?

Let’s know some famous Western artists!

Giotto di Bondone乔托 · 迪 · 邦多纳

犹大之吻

Giotto di Bondone (1267 - 1337). Florentine painter and architect. He was recognized as the first genius of art in the Italian Renaissance. Giotto lived and worked at a time when people’s minds and talents were first being freed from the shackles of medieval restraint. He dealt largely in the traditional religious subjects, but he gave these subjects an earthly, full-blooded life and force.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Michelangelo Bounaroti (1475 － 1564)

米开朗基罗

Creation of Adam

Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520)

拉斐尔

The School of Athens

Masaccio(1401-1427),

the first great painter of

the Italian Renaissance,

whose innovations in

the use of scientific

perspective inaugurated

the modern era in

painting.

Madonna with Child and Angels

Crucifixion

Masaccio 的作品：

凡高《向日葵》

1. state or fact of

existing

2. lifelike, true to life

3. being in thought but

having a physical or

practical existence

a. realistic

b. abstract

c. existence

Match the words with the correct meanings:

[A] [B]

Match the words with the correct meanings:

[A] [B]

4. classical, of old

beliefs

5. accurate, minute

6. sincere to believe in

a god or gods

d. detailed

e. religious

f. traditional

圣母与圣婴圣母与圣婴天使报喜 织锦画

Compare the two paintings

《圣母子》中世纪 《蒙娜丽莎》文艺复兴Gods are painted People are painted.

莫瑞桥 -- 阿尔弗莱德 · 西斯莱

赛艇 -- 局斯塔夫 · 卡耶博特

蓬图瓦兹 . 埃尔米塔日的坡地

-- 卡米耶 · 毕沙罗

戴帽的自画像 -- 塞尚作被称为”现代艺术的起源”

Fast reading

1. What’s the main idea of the text ?The style of Western art has changed a lot

with time going by.

2.How many styles of Western painting are

mentioned in the text? What are they?

Four. They are:

The Middle Ages, The Renaissance,

Impressionism and Modern art.

1. What were the artists interested in

from 5th to 15th century AD?

Creating _______ and ____ for God.

2. How did Masaccio paint his

paintings? He drew things

in__________, which makes pictures

very _______.

respect love

perspective

realistic

Skimming

3. Why did the impressionists have to

paint quickly?

Because the natural light _______

quickly, they had to _____ quickly.

changes

paint

1. Which of the following statements is true?

A. Paintings in Middle Ages were very realistic.

B. Western art has changed a lot since the 5th century.

C. Impressionist paintings were painted mainly indoors.

D. Modern art began in the Renaissance.

Scanning

2. At first most people hated the

impressionists’ style of painting,

because _____.

A. their painting were very abstract.

B. their painting were very realistic.

C. They broke away from the

traditional style of painting.

D. their paintings were very ridiculous.

3. In the Renaissance, painters___.

A. Painted religious scenes in a more

realistic style.

B. focused more on religion than on

humans.

C. began to paint outdoors.

D. returned to classical Roman and

Greek ideas about art.

4. ____discovered how to make pai

ntings look more real by using p

erspective.

A. Giotto di Bondone.

B. Masaccio.

C. Claude Monet.

D. Pablo Picasso

5. What does the text mainly tell us?

A. How religious painting developed.

B. How oil painting developed.

C. How impressionist painting

developed.

D. How western art developed.

Detailed Reading: True or False

1. Western art has changed very little over the last seventeen centuries.

2. Painters in the Middle Ages painted mainly religious subjects.

3. Paintings in the Middle Ages were very realistic.

4. Renaissance painters tried to paint things in a realistic way.

F

T

F

T

5. Two important discoveries in the Renaissance period were oil paints and drawing in perspective.

6. Impressionists painted their pictures mainly indoors.

7. At first people did not like the impressionists’ paintings.

8. Modern art began with the impressionists.

T

F

T

T

Listen to the tape and fill in the chart:

Ages Time Artist Feature

Middle Ages

Renaissance

Impressionism

Modern

Ages: Middle AgesTime: 5th to 15th

century ADArtist: GiottoFeature: Religious,

realistic

Ages: the Renaissance

Time: 15th to 16th

century AD

Artist: Masaccio

Feature: perspective,

realistic

Ages: impressionism

Time: Late 19th to

early 20th

Artist: not mentioned

Feature: Not detailed,

ridiculous

Ages: modern art

Time: 20th century to

today

Artist: not mentioned

Feature: controversial,

abstract,

realistic

Discussion of the text structure

What is the text structured? It is a historical report. The first paragraph

introduces the topic and the theme of the text and then state what the rest of the text will be about. The rest of the report presents the information in chronological order and relates this to the them of the change in artistic style reflecting cultural change.

Now can you tell which period the

following pictures belong to?

                                                                                                                     

                                           

Middle Ages

Renaissance

Impressionism

Modern art

Now draw the history of western painting:

Middle Ages,from 5th to 15th century.

Middle Ages,from 5th to 15th century.

Impressionism:late 19th to early 20 century

Impressionism:late 19th to early 20 century

Modern Art: from 20th to todayModern Art: from 20th to today

The Renaissance:from 15th to 16 century

The Renaissance:from 15th to 16 century

The style of Western art has changed

__________, while Chinese art has

changed ________. Art is _________ by

the way of ___ and ______.

During the Middle Ages, the main ____

of painters was to _________________

themes. Artists were ___________

creating ______ and _____for God.

many timesless often influenced

life beliefs

aim

represent religious

interested in

respect love

In the Renaissance, people became

_______ more on _______and less on

_______. Artists tried to paint ______

and ______ __ they really ____.

Masaccio used __________ in his

paintings which made people ________

they were ______________ a hole in

the wall __ a real scene.

focused

humans

religion

people

nature as were perspective

convinced

looking through

at

In the late 19th century, Europe

changed __________ from a mostly

__________ society to a mostly ________

one. The ____________ were the first to

paint ________. They had to paint

______ and their paintings were not __

______________ of earlier painters.

a great deal

agricultural industrial

impressionists

outdoors

quickly

detailed as those

as

Today people accept _____________

________ as the _________ of _______

_______. Some modern art is

_______while some is ___.

impressionists’

beginning modern

abstract

realistic

paintings

art

Discussion

Work in pairs:

What styles of painting there will be in

the future?

1. Look for more information about

paintings in

http://tu.tom.com/list/culture.html

2. Read the text more after class.

Homework