Unit One Art

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Unit One Art
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Warming up and reading
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Do you know the following famous paintings and
painters?
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Mona Lisa Smile
Leonardo Da Vinci
(Italian, 1452-1519)
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starry night
Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh
(Dutch, 1853-1890)
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Water Lilies
Claude Monet
(French, 1840-1926)
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Pablo Picasso
Dream
Seated woman
(Spanish, 1881-1973)
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Can you tell the ages of the paintings?
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Comparison of Western and Chinese painting

• Time Western
  Chinese

5th to 15th century AD
15th to 16th century
Which do you think has a greater change? Why?
Late 19th century to early 20th century
20th century to today
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Read Para. 1 and answer the question.

• Which do you think has a greater change? Western
  or Chinese?
• Why?

• Western painting has a greater change.
• Art is influenced by the way of life and beliefs
  of the people, and China, unlike Europe, has
  followed a similar way of life for a very long
  time.

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Scan para.2-5
Time
period
AD5th----15th
The Middle Ages
15th----16th
The Renaissance
Impressionism
Late 19th----early 20th
Modern art
20th ----today
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Fill in the chart
religious, realistic
The Middle Ages
Giotto di Bondone
The Renaissance
perspective realistic
Masaccio
Impressionism
not detailed ridiculous
controversial abstract realistic
Modern art
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The Middle Ages (Para 2)

• Features
• theme
• Artists were not interested in showing
  ___________________ _______but interested in
  creating ___________________.

What are these? Religious symbols.
religion
nature and people as
respect and love for God
Which is more realistic?
B. 13th century
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The Renaissance (Para 3)

• Features
• Focused more on ______ and less on ______.
• Two developments
• a. __________________
• b. _________________

humans
religion
Drawing things in perspective
Oil painting
Masaccio
the first person to use
perspective in painting
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Try to compare them
The color looks richer and deeper.
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Impressionism (Para. 4)

• What changes led to the change in painting
  styles?
• Look at these paintings, what did they paint?
• Why did the impressionist have to paint quickly?
• Did people like this style of painting? Why?

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Modern art (Para 5)
Two extremes
Realistic
Certain qualities of the object
photograph
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Homework

• Underline the useful expressions and the time
  expressions in the reading passage.
• Retell the passage with the help of the chart
  about the text.