Warming up&

reading

Warming up&

reading

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 do western paintings have a greater change? Now we’d like to learn something about the history of western painting. First please write the words according to their explanations.

1. g______

2. s_______

3. f_______

4. p_________

5. r_________

6. c_________

7. c_________

8. p_________

1.a place where many pictures or paintings are on display2.a person, a thing, etc that stand for a more general quality or situation3.to give attention, effect to a particular thing, situation or person rather than another4.something one owns; wealth5.very funny, silly or unreasonable6.causing discussion and disagreement7.to make sb believe that something is true8.foretell; to say something will happen in the future

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Scanning:Part One An Introduction to the History of

Western PaintingGo through the part and answer the following

questions:What influences art?The way of life and beliefs of the people.Why has Chinese art changed less?Because China has followed a similar way of life for

a very long time.Why can’t the text describe all the styles of western

art?Because there are too many different styles.

Part Two The Middle Ages(5th to 15th century AD)

Read the part carefully and fill in the blanks:

In the ____ of the Middle Ages, artist showed much ______ in showing respect and love for God ____ ___ showing nature and people as they really were. And paintings from this period are _____ with religious _______. _______, things had begun to change by the 13th century when some painters, ____ _____ Giotto di Bondone _____ a more realistic style of ______ religious scenes.

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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.

Now let’s know Giotto di Bondone and one of his paintings and some other paintings at that time.

Giotto di Bondone乔托 · 迪 · 邦多纳

犹大之吻

圣母与圣婴圣母与圣婴天使报喜 织锦画

Part Three The Renaissance (15th to 16th century)Reading the part and deal with the following problems

What?

Why?

Result?

…took the place of…, became focused more on...Rich people…collect art for…, paid… to paint…themselves, houses, possessions, activities, achievements…returned to…, tried to paint …as ….

Fill in the blanksPainters then ________ how to draw things ___ ________. And Masaccio was ___ ___ __use perspective in his paintings. When his paintings ____ ____ _____ , people ____ _______ _____ their reality. ____ the rulers of perspective not been discovered, people wouldn’t have been able to paint such realistic pictures. And oil paints’ _________ made colors look richer and deeper.

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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.

Now let’s know Masaccio and hispaintings, another two painters at that time Leonardo da Vinci and Raffaello Sanzio and their most famous paintings and some otherpaintings at that time.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520)

拉斐尔

The School of Athens

Part Four Impressionism (late 19th to early 20th century)

Deal with the following problems:

Changes

In society

In life

In artThree aspects

Changed …from agricultural to industrial, …inventions…..moved from country to city…led to changes…,…broke away from…impressionists…in Paris. …paint outdoors, … to show…fell…at differenttimes…, because…change…, had to …

Feature …not as detailed as…

Criticism …hated…became angry…, …said…careless…ridiculous.

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

Let’s appreciate some paintings of that times

凡高《向日葵》

戴帽的自画像 -- 塞尚作被称为”现代艺术的起源”

Work in pairs:

Does the change of art have any

influence on people’s daily life?

What style of art do you like best?