Modern Painting

Разделы: Иностранные языки

Objectives.

1. Educational objectives.

    • To revise the vocabulary associated with painting.
    • To practise listening, note-taking, speaking and discussion.
    • To practise describing paintings using a plan and giving opinions about them.

2. Developmental objectives.

    • To increase awareness of main art styles of the 20th century.
    • To increase awareness of beauty of the modern painting.

3. Educative objectives.

    • To make students understand the importance of studying arts as a world culture to be tolerant to different nations and cultures.

I. Brainstorming activity. (Discussing a quotation)

Let’s pay our attention to the words of the Irish writer O. Wilde “All art is useless”

    • What do you think of this idea?
    • Do you agree with it?

II. Warming up activity. (Revising the vocabulary)

Distribute these words and phrases under the correct heading. (Pair Work)

Realistic, in the foreground, landscape, light, round, in the background, straight, abstract, at the top/ bottom, portrait, dark, geometric, on the left/right, wavy, pop, war, bright, square, clear, cubist, soft, impressionism, scenes from everyday life, strong, street scenes.

III. Listening.

1. Pre listening activity.

Look at the screen. There are works of art by some modern painters of the 20th century.

  • Do you know these names?
  • What do you know about them?

2. Listening Task.

Listen to four people talking about these pictures and identify the paintings. Take notes.

Tapescript

1 Well, I really like this picture – it's easy to see what's happening. I like the bright colours – of the girl's blue dress and her blonde hair. I also like the round shapes in the picture. I think the topic is interesting too – the girl looks worried and she's thinking about her boyfriend '

2 Personally, I think this one is good. It's got very strong lines and you can almost feel the music. And the colours they're great – they're really bright. I like abstract paintings because you have to use your own imagination to understand what the painter is trying to do. I think ...

3 This one's my favourite. It shows the horrors of war really well – with the dark, dark colours and the terrible images. The lines and shapes are square and geometrical. They show violence and pain. Look at the horse and the mother with her dead child. It's a very frightening painting because ...

4 Well, I think this one's the best. I really like the bright colours and the clear lines. I love the colour of the water in the swimming pool. The style's strange – it's realistic but very simple at the same time ...

Answers:

  1. I know… Brad by Roy Lichtenstein
  2. Improvisation 28 by Vassiliy Kandinsky
  3. Guernica by Pablo Picasso
  4. A Bigger Splash by David Hockny

3. After listening activity.

Talk about the paintings. Which of them do you like most? Express you opinion.

IV. Studying the topic. (Styles definitions)

Match the art styles with definitions. (Pair Work)

  1. Impressionism
  2. Cubism
  3. Abstract painting
  4. Realistic style
  5. Pop art
    1. It’s the art that doesn’t represent recognizable objects.
    2. It promotes accurate, detailed depiction of nature or contemporary life. It rejects imaginative idealization in favour of close observation.
    3. It’s the conception of art as imitation of nature. Its subject included landscapes, tress, houses, street scenes. The artists paid attention to effects of light and movement.
    4. The key concept of this style is that essence of the object can only be shown from different points of view at once. Its works reject perspective in favour of geometric forms.
    5. The art in which common objects (such as comic strips, soup cans, road signs, and hamburgers) were used as subject matter.

Answers:

    1. Impressionism – c
    2. Cubism – d
    3. Abstract – a
    4. Realistic – b
    5. Pop art – e

What are the differences among the art styles?

V. Reports about impressionism, Edouard Manet and Pablo Picasso.

Today we’ll get acquainted with two main representatives of painting.

Until the second half of the 19th century, the most important style was Classicism. The usual was that artists displayed their pictures in the official hall. The main palette was in dark colours – brown, black. The main subject was a human, sometimes idealised.

In the late 19th century a new movement called impressionism developed in France. The painters rejected the traditional brown, grey, and green colours in favour of a lighter, more brilliant palette. They often painted out of doors, rather than in the studio. Their subject matter included landscapes, trees, houses, and even street scenes and railroad stations.

Edouard Manet (1832-1883), a French painter, is regarded as the most important master of Impressionism. Edouard Manet travelled to Spain and was touched by its way of life, traditions, folklore and the world of bullfighters and young girls. There, he could learn from works of great painters such as Velazquez and Goya, who absolutely influenced his work.

But he was a painter of modern life, who showed life as it was, without idealisation. It caused a big scandal. The refined public of the moment was not ready to accept a revolution like that.   

Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) was a Spanish painter and one of the recognized figures in the 20th century art, probably most famous as the founder of the cubism.

The movement itself was not long-lived or widespread, but it began an creative explosion in the art of the 20th century.
In 1907 after numerous studies and variations Picasso painted his first cubistic picture – “Les demoiselles d’Avignon”. Impressed with African sculptures at ethnographic museum he tried to combine the angular structures of the “primitive art” and his new ideas about cubism.“

What have you learnt about the artists and their works?

What are the main features of impressionist works? (Light colours, brilliant palette, out of doors, not in a studio)

VI. Describing the paintings. (Group Work)

There are three paintings of different artists on the same topic, the same name: “The Luncheon on the Grass” by Edouard Manet, by Claude Monet, by Pablo Picasso.

Describe one of the paintings using the plan.

  1. What kind of painting is it?
  2. What is the subject?
  3. What is happening in the picture?
  4. What colours/ lines/ shapes are used?
  5. What is your opinion of it?

1) “The Luncheon on the Grass” by… is a good example of … style.

It was painted in the late 19th / in the middle of the 20th century.

2) The main subject of the painting is ... .

  1. It shows people in the park having a picnic…
  2. The artist brilliantly used … in the picture.
  3. I think… / In my opinion…/ To my mind…

VII. Summing up.

– Which of the paintings do you like most? Why?

– How did the artists express the same things?

All people are different.

Even the same things they see in different ways.

But the attempt to understand the art in its variety is an attempt to understand the national culture and the world culture in general.

Understanding of world culture makes people be temperate and tolerant to each other, helping people live in peace (culture of peace)

VII. Home task:

Describe your favourite painting.

Student’s Handout

Ex. 1

Distribute these words and phrases under the correct heading.

Realistic, in the foreground, landscape, light, round, in the background, straight, abstract, at the top/ bottom, portrait, dark, geometric, on the left/right, wavy, pop, war, bright, square, clear, cubist, soft, impressionism, scenes from everyday life, strong, street scenes.

Ex.2

Match the art styles with definitions.

  1. Impressionism
  2. Cubism
  3. Abstract painting
  4. Realistic style
  5. Pop art
    1. It’s the art that doesn’t represent recognizable objects.
    2. It promotes accurate, detailed depiction of nature or contemporary life. It rejects imaginative idealization in favour of close observation.
    3. It’s the conception of art as imitation of nature. Its subject included landscapes, tress, houses, street scenes. The artists paid attention to effects of light and movement.
    4. The key concept of this style is that essence of the object can only be shown from different points of view at once. Its works reject perspective in favour of geometric forms.
    5. The art in which common objects (such as comic strips, soup cans, road signs,

and hamburgers) were used as subject matter.

Ex. 3

Describe the paintings using the plan.

  1. What kind of painting is it?
  2. What is the subject?
  3. What is happening in the picture?
  4. What colours/ lines/ shapes are used?
  5. What is your opinion of it?

1) “The Luncheon on the Grass” by… is a good example of … style.

It was painted in the late 19th / in the middle of the 20th century.

2) The main subject of the painting is ... .

  1. It shows people in the park having a picnic…
  2. The artist brilliantly used … in the picture.
  3. I think… / In my opinion…/ To my mind…

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