Fine Arts教案
works from his blue period are characterized by their monochromatic blue tones, melancholy ambiance and destitute characters. however, they were sympathetic portrayals, as picasso, too had suffered emotionally, and had been impoverished in 1902. the painting carries symbolic elements of hope, as well: although bent and gaunt, the guitarist is also blind-an inspirational symbol of powerful inner vision—and oblivious to his handicap.
guernica is a painting by pablo picasso, depicting the nazi german bombling of guernica, spain, by twenty-four bombers, on april 26, 1937 during the spanish civil war, in which a number of people variously estimated between 250 and 1600 were killed and many more were injured.
a huge mural had already been commissioned from picasso by the spanish republican government to decorate the spanish pavilion at the paris international exposition (the 1937 world’s fair in paris). picasso’s first sketches were done on may 1st, a week after the bombing. picasso said as he worked on the mural:
“the spanish struggle is the fight of reaction against the people, against freedom. my whole life as an artist has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against reaction and the death of art. how could anybody think for a moment that i could be in agreement with reaction and death? . . . in the panel on which i am working, which i shall call guernica, and in all my recent works of art, i clearly express my abhorrence of the military caste which has sunk spain in an ocean of pain and death. ”
workbook answer keys:
grammar
1 1 visiting 2 visiting 3 to go 4 to come 5 to spend 6 to meet 7 to be 8 getting up9 waiting
2 1 to know2 selling 3 painting, studying 4 learning 5 going 6 selling
3 a likes: be crazy about, like, be fond of, enjoy, love
b dislikes: can’t stand, dislike, hate
4 students’ own answers.
5 1 being able to 2 painting 3 visiting 4 buying 5 being
6 students’ own answers.
vocabulary
7 painting 1: realistic, can, contemporary, pop art, well-known
painting 2: landscape, watercolour, traditional, well-known
8 a)attempt b)decision c)drawing d)exhibition e)express
f)imitation g)movement h)paint i)promise j)refusal
1 attempts 2 imitated 3 promised(decided/refused) 4 painting(exhibition)5 express
9 1 artist 2 brush 3 art gallery 4 ink 5 landscape 6 extraordinary
7 portrait 8 contemporary 9 style
10 students’ own answers.
reading
11 1 wu hang 2 andy warhol 3 andy warhol and zhou sicong 4 pop art, chinese art