英语课件ReadingA short history of western.ppt

Can you match the painting and the painters? Comparison of Western and Chinese painting. Time Western Chinese 2. 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. 3. In the Renaissance, painters___. Painted religious scenes in a more realistic style. B. focused more on religion than on humans. C. began to paint outdoors. D. returned to classical Roman and Greek ideas about art. 4. ____discovered how to make paintings look more real by using perspective. Giotto di Bondone. Masaccio. Claude Monet. D. Pablo Picasso 5. What does the text mainly tell us? How religious painting developed. How oil painting developed. How impressionist painting developed. D. How western art developed. Detailed Reading: True or False 1. Western art has changed very little over the last seventeen centuries. 2. Painters in the Middle Ages painted mainly religious subjects. 3. Paintings in the Middle Ages were very realistic. 4. Renaissance painters tried to paint things in a realistic way. F T F T 5. Two important discoveries in the Renaissance period were oil paints and drawing in perspective. 6. Impressionists painted their pictures mainly indoors. 7. At first people did not like the impressionists’ paintings. 8. Modern art began with the impressionists. T F T T Listen to the tape and fill in the chart: Modern Impressionism Renaissance Middle Ages Feature Artist Time Ages Ages: Middle Ages Time: 5th to 15th century AD Artist: Giotto Feature: Religious, realistic Ages: the Renaissance Time: 15th to 16th century AD Artist: Masaccio Feature: perspective, realistic Ages: impressionism Time: Late 19th to early 20th Artist: not mentioned Feature: Not detailed, ridiculous Ages: modern art Time: 20th century to today Artist: not mentioned Feature: c