1、Unit 7 Art Lesson 1 Masterpieces What do you see in the painting? Activity 1 The Starry Night by Van Gogh What do you see in the painting? Activity 1 The Scream by Edvard Munch What do you see in the painting? Activity 1 The Empire of Light by Ren Magritte Activity 2 Read the descriptions and find o
2、ut what each painting is about. Activity 3 Read again, take notes and talk about each painting. 1. What does the painting show? 2. What may have inspired the painter? 3. What did the artist think or say about the painting? Questions: 1. What does the painting show? 2. What may have inspired the pain
3、ter? 3. What did the artist think or say about the painting? Painting Questions 1 Question 2 Question 3 The Starry Night The Scream The Empire of Light The night sky with clouds, stars and a moon. What he saw from the window. He thought it was a failure. A thin figure with an expression of fear. His
4、 experience of walking with friends. Not mentioned in the text. A beautiful house lit by lights from inside, surrounded by the darkness of the night. His thoughts and ideas. The contrast between day and night in the paintings was surprising. Activity 4 1. Sort the expressions into the correct column
5、s. The Starry Night The Scream The Empire of Light 1 with an expression of fear 2 let out a powerful scream 3 circles of white and yellow racing across the sky 4 a burning orange-red sky 5 surrounded by the darkness of night 6 the night sky with clouds, stars and a moon 7 a beautiful house lit by li
6、ghts from inside 8 full of brightness and soft white clouds 9 looks directly at the viewer 10 a sleeping village and a dark, lonely tree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Activity 4 2. Practise introducing the paintings. The Starry Night The Scream The Empire of Light circles of white and yellow racing across th
7、e sky the night sky with clouds, stars and a moon a sleeping village and a dark, lonely tree with an expression of fear let out a powerful scream a burning orange-red sky looks directly at the viewer surrounded by the darkness of night a beautiful house lit by lights from inside full of brightness a
8、nd soft white clouds Activity 5 Read the first paragraph of each painting. Do they have anything in common? Each painting is focused on the artists interpretation of nature, especially the aspects of the sky. All three paintings paint the sky with bright colours and the darkness in each one manifest
9、s a typical feature. Activity 6 After reading the descriptions, do you like or dislike them more? Give your reasons. Vocabulary Help artistic beauty originality emotional atmosphere colour scheme dramatic contrast highlights the painting makes me feel uneasy/inspired, dark and troubling failure powe
10、rful Activity 7 Group Work: Introduce the paintings. Suppose you are a volunteer at an art exhibition. Introduce one of the three paintings to the visitors. Activity 8 Noun clauses, subject clauses, object clauses, and predicative clauses. A noun clause is a dependent clause that acts as a noun. Nou
11、n clauses can act as subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, or objects of a preposition. Example: 1. Whichever restaurant you pick is fine with me. 2. Do you know what the weather will be like? 3. Be sure to send whoever interviewed you a thank-you note. 4. The focus of o
12、ur work is how we can satisfy customers most effectively. 5. Its important to think about why we make certain decisions. subjecta subject clause direct objectan object clause indirect objectan object clause a predicate nominativean predicative clause an object of a prepositionan object clause Pair W
13、ork: Read the sentences. Answer the questions. 1 Van Gogh painted what he saw from his window. 2 What makes it striking is that it shows a thin figure with an expression of fear. 3 What is strange is that above the house and the tree, we see a daytime sky full of brightness and soft white clouds. 4
14、Some feel that the paintings look dark and troubling. Which sentence is an example of: a a subject clause, or a noun clause that acts as the subject of the sentence b an object clause, or a noun clause that acts as the object of the sentence c a predicative clause, or a noun clause that acts as the
15、predicative of the sentence b a c a c b Activity 9 Combine the two expressions using a subject clause, an object clause or a predicative clause. 1 Magritte painted in this way The reason was that he wanted to challenge how people see the world 2 Looking at the painting, we dont know It is night or d
16、ay 3 The fact remains Munchs The Scream is one of the best-known paintings ever made 4 It is unclear Van Gogh wanted to paint yellow spots or that was what he really saw The reason why Magritte painted in this way was that he wanted to challenge how people see the world. Looking at the painting, we
17、dont know whether it is night or day. The fact remains that Munchs The Scream is one of the best-known paintings ever made. It is unclear whether Van Gogh wanted to paint yellow spots or that was what he really saw. Activity 10 Group Work Read the quotes. Discuss the features of good paintings. A man paints with his brain and not with his hands. Michelangelo, an Italian painter Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. Plutarch, an ancient Greek writer Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted but not explained. Maurice de Vlaminck, a French painter Thank You
