译林英语模块8同步教学课件：Unit3SectionⅠ.ppt

which often uses acute angles and where the world is represented as being constructed of cubes and rectangles. Of course，even though Picasso was Spanish， he left Spain while he was still a young and struggling artist，and settled in Paris，France.So，after visiting Spain，we went to Paris.During our four days in Paris we spent one whole day at the Louvre Museum，where we saw the Mona Lisa， painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.He created this work between 1503 and 1506.I was really impressed by this picture of a lady with a mysterious smile.By popular consensus，this is the most valuable painting in the world－it is impossible to calculate what price it would fetch if it ever came on the market.Besides being a painter， da Vinci was also an architect，scientist and engineer.He designed many new inventions，including a primitive form of a helicopter and a tank. Besides the works of da Vinci, the Louvre Museum has more than 6,000 other European paintings, ranging from the 13th century to the 19th century. It doesn’t have any modern paintings in it, however.Modern paintings are all kept at the Musée d’Orsay. We went there on our second day in Paris because my aunt was eager to see the works of Claude Monet. Monet was a French painter who lived between 1840 and 1926. His paintings were typical of a style called Impressionism. With Impressionism, the painter abandons the idea of representing things exactly as they look in a photograph, but seeks to show movement and the feelings of the moment, through the use of colours, light and shadows. Monet loved to paint outdoors, and almost never used a studio. Though when he was younger he painted a wide variety of subjects, when he was older he most often painted the water lilies floating on the surface of the pond in his garden. Yesterday, we went to the Van Gogh Museum, here in Amsterdam. Van Gogh was also a member of the Impressionist Movement. Altogether, he painted about 800 oil paintings and did 1,600 drawings. One o