电子教案 Book1—Unit5.ppt

Unit 5Modern Art Before Reading1. The Absin the Drinker: also known as Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto，is a portrait by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in 1903 during his Blue Period. The oil painting depicts Picassos friend and fellow painter, Angel Fernandez de Soto, in a bar with a glass of absinthe. The painting was previously owned by musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. On 23 June 2010, the painting was sold at auction for ￡34.7 million. 《迪索多肖像》（又名《饮苦艾酒者》 Words and Expressions Background Information Detailed Reading Translation Before Reading Words and Expressions Background Information Detailed Reading Translation Before Reading 2. Rembrandt: with the full name as Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669), was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age when Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative. 伦勃朗 Words and Expressions Background Information Detailed Reading Translation Before Reading   Words and Expressions Background Information Detailed Reading Translation Before Reading 3. Sherrie Levine: (1947-) is an American photographer and appropriation artist. Much of Levines work is in the form of a very direct version of re-photography. A larger category of re-photography and collage is the impulse of artists using this kind of appropriation as its own focus — someone who pulls from the works of others and the worlds they depict to create their own work. 谢丽·莱文妮  Words and Expressions Background Information Detailed Reading Translation Before Reading4. Marcel Duchamp: (1887–1968) was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist