Warming up

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Unit 1 Art
Warming up reading
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Comparison of Western and Chinese painting.

• Time Western
  Chinese

5th to 15th century AD
15th to 16th century
Late 19th century to early 20th century
20th century to today
Which do you think has a greater change?
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• Why do western paintings have a greater change?
  Now wed like to learn something about the
  history of western painting. First please write
  the words according to their explanations.

1.a place where many pictures or paintings are on
display 2.a person, a thing, etc that stand for a
more general quality or situation 3.to give
attention, effect to a particular thing,
situation or person rather than
another 4.something one owns wealth 5.very
funny, silly or unreasonable 6.causing discussion
and disagreement 7.to make sb believe that
something is true 8.foretell to say something
will happen in the future
allery

1. g______
2. s_______
3. f_______
4. p_________
5. r_________
6. c_________
7. c_________
8. p_________

ymbol
ocus
ossession
idiculous
ontroversial
onvince
redict
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• Scanning
• Part One An Introduction to the History of
  Western Painting
• Go 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 cant the text describe all the styles of
  western art?
• Because there are too many different styles.

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• 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.

period
interest
instead
of
filled
symbols
However
for example
created
painting
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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 peoples
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 lets know Giotto di Bondone and one of his
paintings and some other paintings at that time.
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Giotto di Bondone ??????
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The Middle Ages
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• Part Three The Renaissance (15th to 16th
  century)
• Reading the part and deal with the following
  problems

took the place of, became focused more on...
What?
Why?
Rich peoplecollect art for, paid to
paintthemselves, houses, possessions,
activities, achievements
Result?
returned to, tried to paint as .
Fill in the blanks
discovered
in perspective
Painters 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 wouldnt have been able
to paint such realistic pictures. And oil
paints _________ made colors look richer and
deeper.
the first to
were first seen
were convinced
of
Had
development
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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 lets know Masaccio and his paintings,
another two painters at that time Leonardo da
Vinci and Raffaello Sanzio and their most
famous paintings and some other paintings at
that time.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
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Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520) ???
The School of Athens
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• Part Four Impressionism (late 19th to early
  20th century)
• Deal with the following problems

Changed from agricultural to industrial,
inventions
In society
Changes
In life
..moved from country to city
led to changes,broke away from impressionists
in Paris. paint outdoors, to showfellat
different times, becausechange, had to
Three aspects
In art
Feature
not as detailed as
hatedbecame angry, said carelessridiculous.
Criticism
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Lets appreciate some paintings of that times
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Impressionism
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Modern Art
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Discussion
Work in pairs Does the change of art have any
influence on peoples daily life? What style of
art do you like best?