牛津版高中课本模块 M8U3Visiting the masters电子课本
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牛津版高中课本模块 M8U3Visiting the masters电子课本
Visiting the masters
Hi Yang Yan
Here
I am in Amsterdan . This trip has been fantastic!
As you know , I am with my
aunt and
grandmother. They are both good artists, and I am
thinking about starting
painting myself after
I get back .Let me tell you all about our trip.
My gradmother really likes Picasso`s paintings
and thinks he is the greatest artist ever,
so
we started in Spain and went to the city of
Malaga, the birthplace of Picasso. Near
the
house where Picasso was born is a museum full of
his art. Malaga is a lovely city
and the
architecture is beautiful.I was amazed to learn
that Picasso had an output of
more than 20,000
pieces of art . He did not just paint , but made
sculptures and
worked with all kinds of media.
He experimented with different styles of painting
,
but was most famous for his work in Cubism
,which often uses acute angles and
where the
world is represented as being constructed of cubes
and rectangles.
Of course ,even though Picasso
was Spainish , he left Spain while he was still a
young and struggling artist , and settled in
Paris , France. So ,after visiting Spain , we
went to Pairs . 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 1503and 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 13
th
century to the 19
th
century . It doesn`t have
any modern paintings
in it , however,. Modern paintings are all kept at
the Musee
d`Orsay. We went there on our second
day in Paris because my aunt was eager to see
the works if Claude Monet.
Monet was a
French painter who lived between 1840 and 1926.
His paintings were
typical of a style called
Impreeionism, 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 young 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 for the
Impreeionist movement. Altogether , he painted
about 800oil
paintings and did 1,600drawings.
One of his most famous oil paintings is The Potato
Eaters, which he painted in 1885. Among his
works , my favourite is Starry Night ,
which
he completed in 1889. Unfortunately , although van
Gogh committed his
whole being to painting ,
he received little reward for his effort. His
younger brother ,
Theo , acting as his fancs,
before van Gogh died in 1890. Today ,van Gogh`s
paintings are worth upwards of millions of
dollars each.
Tommorrow we are off to another
museum in Amsterdam. The most famous paintings
there are by Rembrandt. He lived from
1606until 1669. My aunt really wants to see
painting of his called The night Watch,
which was painted in 1642.
I`ll tell you more
about my trip when I get back.
Project Unusual
pictures
Someone once said that anything and
everything could be used to make art. A few
years ago , a picture of Mona Lisa was made
out of slices of bread toasted to different
colours. It probably smelled good ,but it look
a long time to do . this web page gives
you
some ideas that you could use to make unusual
pictures.
Put your apron on and get ready to
make a pizza face. Now you can be a chef and an
artist. You can use a variety of different
foods to help you make a face. Here are a few
ideas.
Use small slices of carrot or
pieces of seaweed as hair, and arrange it in the
style that
you want.. Cut up some tomatoes for
eyes, pieces of cheese for ears, and a mushroom
for a nose. Next , you need to think about the
mouth---you could make a smile from a
slice of
bacon. Other foods you could use to create pizza
faces include onion,
pineapple, eggplant and
ham. Most of these foods are available at your
local grocery.
When you have made the face ,
you can take a photo of it, so that you can keep
your
unusual picture forever . Once you have
taken the photo , you can then cook and eat
the pizza face.
An artist in the USA once
made pizza faces from fruit and vegetables. He
took photos
of each one and then used these
photographs to make birthday cards. Since then he
has sold over two million cards.
To make
string pictures ,you need some card, thin string
and glue. Think about what
picture you want to
make . Will it be an abstract pattern, or will it
be a picture of
things , a scene or
people? First ,use a crayon or pencil to draw the
outline of the
picture on the card. Next ,
spread the glue where you want to attach the
string. You
can make solid shapes by using
circles of string. Once the string has dried on
the card,
you could paint different parts of
the string .
This idea is about creating
pictures with feathers and seashells. You will
also need
glue and some card. Choose small
seashells so they will not be very heavy when they
are stuck onto the card. Think about the
pattern or picture that you want to make. You
can lay all the pieces out on the card before
you stick them down. You can collect
seashells
at the beach. Feathers can be found in pillows,
pet shops or parks.
This may sound disgusting
to some, but it is really quite clean and great
fun. Every
day, we produce lots of rubbish,
including different materials like plastic,
aluminum,
cloth and paper. We can use this
rubbish to create pictures. These pictures can be
quite heavy , so you should use strong paper
or card and very strong glue to stick the
rubbish onto the card . Once it is stuck on ,
you can spray the different sections of
picture with paint.
Again , this is using
rubbish , but this time as paintbrushes. For
example, one end of a
tin can be dipped into
paint and used to make circles on a piece of card.
We can use
old pieces of cloth as brushes, or
wrinkle the cloth together to form an interesting
pattern. The shapes and patterns could be
repeated. Shapes can be cut out of other
rubbish, dipped into the paint and pressed on
the card.
There are many other things that you
can use to make unusual pictures, so why not
have a go at some of the ideas above and try
out some ideas of your own?