高中英语选修6Unit-1--Warming-up-and-Reading

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Unit 1 Art

Warming Up

&

Reading

高二人教新课标版选修六

Can you name some Western artists or paintings?

Let’s appreciate some pictures:

犹大之吻

The kiss of Judas

中世纪

The Middle Ages

蒙娜.丽莎

Mona Lisa

文艺复兴时期

The Renaissance

Sunflower

印象派 Impressionism

Van Gogh

《三个乐师》

Three Musicians

现代艺术

Modern Art

A short history

of western painting

Task 1 Read the title and the first paragraph of the text, predict（预测）:

1. What is the text mainly about?

It is about ___________________________.

2. In what order will the text be arranged?

Time order.

Fast reading:

the history of western painting

1. Find out the time periods of painting in the text and underline them.

2. How many styles of Western painting are mentioned in the text? What are they?

Task 2 Read the rest of the text on P2-3, find out the answers of the following questions:

5th C AD

15th

16th

19th

20th

The Middle Ages

The Renaissance

Impressionism

Modern Art

Time line of Art

Read the text again and fill in the chart:

religious themes

religious symbols

5th to 15th

century AD

Giotto di

Bondone

The

Renaissance

15th to 16th

century

Masaccio

realistic themes

perspective

oil paints

late 19th to

early 20th century

painted outdoors

focused on light changes

not detailed

Modern art

20th century

to today

controversial

abstract

realistic

Please match the paintings with the right styles.

The Middle Ages B. Renaissance

C. Impressionism D. Modern Art

B

C

D

A

Careful reading:

In what way did the painters like Giotto di Bondone begin to paint something?

A. In a new perspective.

B. In a more realistic way.

C. By showing light and shadow on the objects.

D. By using color, light and shape.

2. ____ discovered how to make paintings look more real by using perspective.

Masaccio.

Giotto di Bondone.

Claude Monet.

D. Pablo Picasso

3. What did the rich people want to paint during the 15th to 16th century?

Religious scenes.

Oil paintings.

Abstract qualities of objects.

D. Their own possessions, activities and achievements.

4. At first most people hated the impressionists’ style of painting, because _____.

their painting were very abstract.

their painting were very realistic.

They broke away from the traditional style of painting.

D. their paintings were very ridiculous.

5. According to the text, art is influenced less likely by ____.

A. social changes

B. the way of life

C. agriculture

D. beliefs of people

Tell whether the statements True or False according to the text.

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

2. Painters in the Middle Ages did not use perspective.

3. Impressionists painted landscapes.

4. You cannot recognize any object in abstract modern art.

5. In the Renaissance most artists painted indoors.

6. Abstract art is still art style today.

F

T

T

F

T

T

The passage mainly introduces the most

important four painting styles in Western art: The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, _____________ and Modern Art, which are influenced by the customs and ____ of a people.

During the Middle Ages, the main ___ of painters was to represent religious theme and a ______ picture at this time was full of religious symbols. But it was _______ that ideas were changing in the 13th century.

Impressionism

faith

aim

typical

evident

Retelling

During the Renaissance, people began to ______ a more humanistic attitude to life.

Some rich people also paid famous artists to paint pictures because they wanted to ______

their won paintings. In this period, a new

________, perspective, was first used, and oil paints were also developed by __________.

adopt

possess

technique

coincidence

In the late 19th century, Europe changed __ ____ ___, which led to new painting styles. The _____________ broke away from traditional styles of painting, worked outdoors and were eager to show the changes in light and _______. Because they had to paint quickly, their paintings, which many people thought are _________, were not as ______ as those of the earlier painters.

a great deal

Impressionists

shadow

ridiculous

detailed

Today, there are scores of modern art styles. Some art is very _______ because the painter does not _______ __ paint objects as they really are. But some art is as ________ as a photograph. As for the painting styles in the future, no one can ________.

abstract

attempt to

realistic

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