【素材】Unit1Art-话题阅读(新人教版选修6)

Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci was anamazing guy. But let's get one thingstraight: he didn't have a fucking code.That's no slam on da Vinci, ofcourse. He painted some of the mostmemorable images in history, including"The Last Supper" and the "MonaLisa." And his science was asimpressive as his art. An engineer andarchitect, da Vinci invented thehelicopter 400 years before there wassuch a thing as a bustion engine.Many of his inventions are still used today in one form or another, such as the hygrometer, the transmission drive, the ball-bearing axle and the machine gun. But there was no da Vinci code. Sorry. Get over it.Leonardo was born in 1452, near Tuscany in Italy, the bastard son of a local nobleman. He was reportedly an artistic prodigy, who was allowed to pore through his father's library (although he was never recognized as a legitimate offspring). As a child, he was fascinated by art, anatomy and nature.At the tender age of 14, da Vinci traveled to the big city, Florence, where he became an apprentice to a very successful artist of the day named Andrea del Verrocchio, who is best remembered for such classic works as... well, OK, he's best remembered for having Leonardo as an apprentice. The judgments of history are coldand heartless.del Verrocchio had a number of talented students who"assisted" him in painting his most successful works, in thecustom of the day. Leonardo spent his days and nights hangingout with Verricchio, his fellow apprentices and otherluminaries of the Florence art scene.Now, you may be thinking that "teenage boy in the big city lives with grown-up artists" sounds a bit fishy, but it was a perfectly acceptable situation within the historical context.The perfectly acceptable socialcontext didn't stop da Vinci fromturning out pletely queer, of course.Florence was very much the SanFrancisco of its day; at the time, theGerman word for homosexual literallytranslated as "Florentine." At age 24, daVinci was formally charged withsodomy, although nothing ever came of it. The charge, that is.In 1477, Verrochio made a painting titled "The Baptism ofChrist," a project which Leonardo assisted by painting an angelon the far left of the picture. Although it's not immediatelyapparent to the untrained eye (or even to the trained eye), theangel illustration was so dazzlingly great that it made the rest ofthe painting look like a piece of total crap.According to legend, Verrocchio swore he would never paint again, so humiliated was he by his student's superior talent. Apparently unaware of the legend, Verrocchio appears to have continued painting after 1477 (or, more accurately, he continued to sign his name on the paintings made by his students), but he did refocus his work on sculpture as the years went on.On the heels of this fabulous (if slightly apocryphal) triumph, da Vinci set out to make his own way in the world. His first major mission was a painting for a nearby monastery. "The Adoration of the Magi" was a sepia-toned panel that was never quite finished but is still considered great. With momentum on his side and the public humiliation of the aforementioned sodomy charge nipping at his heels, da Vinci decided it was time to move on up to Milan, where the local duke offered him a patronage.During his 17 years in Milan, da Vinci made numerous sketches and a few really amazing paintings, including his most famous work, "The Last Supper." "The Last Supper" is one of those things. Or rather, it's one of those things, those strange artifacts of culture (like Shakespeare's Hamlet) that swell beyond their physical bounds to bee a swirling object of obsessive deconstruction through the ages.On the face of it, "The Last Supper" is just one of about eleventy-zillion painting depicting Jesus Christ and his Apostles enjoying their last big shindig before the centurions arrive for the opening act of the Crucifixion. Admittedly, it's a pretty good version of the tableaux, and it's an unusually big one at 29 feet wide, painted on the wall of a Milanese convent. Leonardo painted "The Last Supper" over the course of three years, working at the behest of his patron, the Duke of Milan.Artistically, "The Last Supper" is exceptional -- and for several hundred years, that was all anyone had to say about, except for "It's not holding up very well, is it?" The painting was made using an experimental new technique, which was unfortunately not very durable. Numerous restorations have been attempted over the centuries, with varying degrees of success.After Leo's death, "The Last Supper" became the object of a bizarre 20th century fetish cult that believes there are secret messages hidden in every square inch of wall. At first the province of obscure scholars and authors, these theories slowly ballooned into the public eye, culminating in the publication of The Da Vinci Code, a 2003 best-seller that lifted elements from a dozen ancient conspiracy theories, including tales of the Knights Templar, the Cathars, and the Holy Grail.The theory propounded by the book -- that Jesus didn't die on the cross, but in fact survived to father a line of French kings -- is not terribly outrageous, but it's also not proven. The major plot point of the "code" is based on analysis of the painting's tiniestdetails, which happen to loom rather large when you view the picture at its original27-foot width.The connection between da Vinci and the Jesus bloodlinewas first outlined in the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, whoseauthors have sued the publisher of The da Vinci Code forplagiarism. According to the authors, Leonardo was the GrandMaster of a secret society protecting the secret of Jesus' escapefrom the cross. A popular variation on the theory proposes thatLeonardo may have been responsible for forging the Shroud ofTurin, although the historical evidence for that claim is as sketchy as any other part of this mass of theories.While the Jesus bloodline theory is actually pretty interesting, and not pletely outside the realm of possibility, the da Vinci part of the premise is the weakest from an educated perspective. Virtually no one with a shred of credibility believes The Last Supper is Leonardo's coded message from beyond the grave about the paternity of Christ. (Then again, during Leonardo's life, virtually no one with a shred of credibility believed the earth was round, either.)Anyway, after several successfulyears in Milan, da Vinci returned intriumph to Florence, where he was hailedas a conquering artistic hero. Leo traded upthe Duke of Milan for a new patron, Cesar Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI.While da Vinci continued to work his artistic magic, Borgia wasn't interested in pretty pictures so much as he was in war and strategy. da Vinci, who had always been a dabbler in science and engineering, was teamed with Niccol Machiavelli, who lived in Florence at the time, to execute an elaborate plan for building a strategic canal system. The plan was a bust, but Macchiavelli and da Vinci remained friends.A highlight of da Vinci's second stint in Florence was a much-anticipated "paint battle" in which da Vinci and Michelangelo were to create murals on facing walls in a city plaza. The battle royale ended in a no-contest. Both artists were notorious for not finishing their works, and they lived up to their respective reputations.During this period, da Vinci finished his other enduring masterpiece, "LaGioconda" -- "the joyful one", or as it isknown in English, the "Mona Lisa".These days, it's taken as an establishedfact that the Mona Lisa's expression holdssome sort of secret, that she wears anenigmatic smile. This interpretation of thepainting, however, is fairly recent, firstbeing made by art historian Walter Paterin 1873. In his book The Rennaisance,Pater wrote the following purple passageon the painting:"La Gioconda" is, in the truest sense, Leonardo's masterpiece. [...] We all know the face and hands of the figure, set in its marble chair, in that circle of fantastic rocks, as in some faint light under sea. [...] The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had e to desire. Hers is the head upon which all "the ends of the world are e," and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed! All the thoughts and experience of the world have etched and moulded there, in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the mysticism of the middle age with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned thesecrets of the grave; and has been a diverin deep seas, and keeps their fallen dayabout her; and trafficked for strange webswith Eastern merchants; and, as Leda, wasthe mother of Helen of Troy, and, as SaintAnne, the mother of Mary; and all this hasbeen to her but as the sound of lyres andflutes, and lives only in the delicacy withwhich it has moulded the changinglineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.As the 15th century gave way to the 16th, da Vinci found himself increasingly interested in science, to the detriment of his painting career. While he still sketched and took missions, Leo began to focus on such disciplines as mathematics, architecture, engineering, geology, botany, hydraulics and anatomy. da Vinci's anatomical sketches are still studied today.To better inform his studies of bone and musculature, Leonardo dissected several cadavers, a practice that was still quite controversial at the time. However, for the most part, da Vinci avoided the sort of religious and political rows that would plague other scientists of the period, like Galileo.Leonardo's fascination with science led him down many dead-ends, but also to quite a few useful discoveries. da Vinci is credited with a number of inventions that were firsts for his time, including some so far ahead of his time that they wouldn't actually be built for centuries. They include:•The jack, the same device that you use today to change a tire•Roller bearings, a ball-bearing driven axle that is extremely similar to what cars use today•The one-man printing press•Mechanical transmissions, i.e. the gear system used in everything from ten-speeds to automobiles•The odometerIn addition to these still-employed devices,da Vinci invented a series of scientificinstruments for measuring everything fromtensile strength to humidity.At least as impressive as the inventions thatworked were the inventions that didn't work.Although he lacked several key ponents and rawmaterials, da Vinci nevertheless envisioned aseries of inventions that would eventually beused in the modern world, sometimes with onlyminor changes to his original designs, including the helicopter, the hang-glider and the machine gun.Leonardo collected his technological innovations in notebooks called codeci. One of the best preserved is the Codex Leicester, deals with everything from fossils to astronomy, included sketches of the how the moon's light is seen from earth, and the properties of water and rocks. For many years, the Codex Leicester was owned by Armand Hammer who called it the Codex Hammer from 1980 until his death; in 1994, it was bought by Bill Gates, who returned its original name.da Vinci had bee an extremely celebrated artist by the time he entered middle age, and in Italy, there was only one more realm for him to conquer: Rome. In 1513, da Vinci entered the patronage of Pope Leo X, a scion of the wealthy and powerful Medici family. At the Vatican, Leonardo had mixed successes. Artistically, he found himselfdominated by his rivals, Michelangelo and Raphael. Although he received several missions for paintings, he also spenta lot of time on architecture andengineering.One of the few paintings he pletedin this period was "St. John theBaptist," another controversial workwhich has been the subject of muchdiscussion over the years. Cattyobservers often cite the painting asone indication of Leonardo'sgayness, which isn't really socontroversial that it needs to becontinually re-proven. In the work,John appears to be sexuallyambiguous, soft and feminine, with a decidedly "e hither" expression.After a couple of years, Leonardo left Rome under the patronage of Giuliano Medici, the Pope's brother, where he appears to have spent the last years of his life quietly.For the last decade of da Vinci's life, his constant panion (and presumed lover) was a much younger man named Francesco Melzi, whose life is mostly distinguished by that relationship. He was reportedly an extremely good looking guy, a minor nobleman from Milan and a talented amateur artist. After Leonardo died, Melzi inherited everything,including the inventions, the codeci, books and numerous drawings and paintings, which he carefully preserved for posterity.Leo was a pretty interesting guy in life, but in death, he took on mythic proportions. For centuries, various untrue legends surrounding his life and his works, including a variety of spurious claims about his death and many forgeries of his work. Among the bullet points you can cross off your list of "things to believe," da Vinci did not die in the arms of the king of France, he didn't invent the bicycle, and he didn't use the same model for Judas as he did for Jesus in "The Last Supper."In the 20th century, Leonardo has been an obsessive figure in the pages of fiction, with appearances in everything from Star Trek to a Saturday morning cartoon of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.One of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was named after da Vinci. Between fiction and nonfiction, Leonardo has been featured in hundreds of movies and television shows, and tens of thousands of books. And with the breakout success of The da Vinci Code, and a movie adaptation on the way... Well, let's just say it won't be long before you're really fucking sick of Leonardo da Vinci. If you aren't already.。

专家点评（交大附中陈江丽）
该教学设计的科学性较好，能够详细分析教材和学生情况。

对教学重难点的把握很到位；教学目标的设定能够科学，合学生的实际，对于过程与方法目标论述的很到位。

不足之处：
1.在导入环节中没有对教材内容进行整合，因此导入的耗时较长，用了5个问题才进入到课文的学习。

在leading 环节用了一个问题；在导入环节用了4个问题；在pre-reading 中用了一个问题，这些问题都需要讨论才能做出回答。

因耗时太长，建议教师在导入环节中一定要对教材内容进行整合，时间最好控制在5分钟内。

2. 教学环节只有两个，读前和读中，读后的环节缺失。

读后环节是阅读理解的关键，是检验学生阅读是否理解的关键教师要在此处设计一些深层次的理解性的问题，例如对文章中出现的绘画艺术风格的评价等创造性的发散性思维的问题，写作手法的掌握等问题。

Book6 Unit 1 ArtWarming up---Reading第一课时语篇解读：I. First reading(I) The text is a ____________ report. To make the text easier to understand, the author has used ___________ within the text to mark the change to a different time period. In addition, each section begins with a _______ _________ which acts as an introduction to the theme and content of that section.The Style of the Middle Ages：full of _______________create a feeling of ____________ for Godin a more _______ styleThe Style of the Renaissance：Adopt a more _________ attitude to lifetwo important discoveries:Perspective：Who first used this skill?_________oil paints: What's the use ?___________________The Style of Impressionism：Break away from the __________ styleBe eager to show how ______________ fell on objectsNot as _______ as the earlier onesThe Style of Modern Art：On the one hand：____________；Concentrate on_____________of the objectUse color, line and ______On the other hand：__________Look like ____________(II) Are these statements true or false?1. Western art has changed very little over the last seventeen centuries. ( )2. Paintings in the Middle Ages did not use perspective. ( )3. Impressionists painted landscapes. ( )4. You cannot recognize any object in abstract modern art. ( )5. In the Renaissance most artists painted indoors. ( )6. Abstract art is still an art style today. ( )II. Second readingChoose the best answer to each question according to the text.1. What does the passage mainly tell us?A. Art is influenced only by the customs and faith of a people.B. Europe has followed a similar way of life for a very long timeC. There are quite a few different styles of Western art.D. The style of Western art has unchanged many times, while Chinese art has changed many times.2. The art of the Middle Ages shows _________.A. real lifeB. old songsC. natureD. religious themes3. Who was first to use perspective in his paintings in 1428?A. BondoneB. GodC. MasaccioD. Qi Baishi4. The impressionists often painted outdoors___________.A. in the early 20th centuryB. in the fine weatherC. in angerD. in the morning5. It can be inferred that classical Roman and Greek ideas were_______.A. imaginaryB. perspectiveC. impressionisticD. realisticMake a summary of the text.The style of Western art has changed __________, while Chinese art has changed ________. Art is _________ by the way of ___ and ______.During the Middle Ages, the main ____ of painters was to ________ _________ themes. Artists were ___________ creating ______ and _____for God. In the Renaissance, people became _______ more on _______and less on _______. Artists tried to paint ______ and ______ as they really were. Masaccio used __________ in his paintings which made people ________ they were looking through a hole in the wall __ a real scene. In the late 19th century, Europe changed __________ from a mostly __________ society to a mostly ________ one. The ____________ were the first to paint ________. They had to paint ______ and their paintings were not as _________as those of earlier painters. Today people accept _____________ paintings as the beginning of modern abstract. Some modern art is _______while some is _______.高二英语选修六Unit 1 Art Reading 参考答案(I)historical; headings; topic sentence1). religious symbols; respect and love; realistic2). Humanistic; Masaccio; the color richer & deeper3). Traditional; light and shadow; detailed4). bstract; certain qualities; shape; realistic; photographs(II) 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. T 6.TII. CDCADMake a summary of the text.many times；less often；influenced；life；beliefs；aim；represent religious；interested in；respect；love; focused;religion;humans; people;nature;perspective; convinced; at;a great deal; agricultural; industrial; impressionists; outdoors; quickly; detailed; impressionists'; realistic; abstract。

高中英语学习材料***鼎尚图文理制作***Book6 Unit 1 ArtWarming up---Reading第一课时语篇解读：I. First reading(I) The text is a ____________ report. To make the text easier to understand, the author has used ___________ within the text to mark the change to a different time period. In addition, each section begins with a _______ _________ which acts as an introduction to the theme and content of that section.The Style of the Middle Ages：full of _______________create a feeling of ____________ for Godin a more _______ styleThe Style of the Renaissance：Adopt a more _________ attitude to lifetwo important discoveries:Perspective：Who first used this skill?_________oil paints: What's the use ?___________________The Style of Impressionism：Break away from the __________ styleBe eager to show how ______________ fell on objectsNot as _______ as the earlier onesThe Style of Modern Art：On the one hand：____________；Concentrate on_____________of the objectUse color, line and ______On the other hand：__________Look like ____________(II) Are these statements true or false?1. Western art has changed very little over the last seventeen centuries. ( )2. Paintings in the Middle Ages did not use perspective. ( )3. Impressionists painted landscapes. ( )4. You cannot recognize any object in abstract modern art. ( )5. In the Renaissance most artists painted indoors. ( )6. Abstract art is still an art style today. ( )II. Second readingChoose the best answer to each question according to the text.1. What does the passage mainly tell us?A. Art is influenced only by the customs and faith of a people.B. Europe has followed a similar way of life for a very long timeC. There are quite a few different styles of Western art.D. The style of Western art has unchanged many times, while Chinese art has changed many times.2. The art of the Middle Ages shows _________.A. real lifeB. old songsC. natureD. religious themes3. Who was first to use perspective in his paintings in 1428?A. BondoneB. GodC. MasaccioD. Qi Baishi4. The impressionists often painted outdoors___________.A. in the early 20th centuryB. in the fine weatherC. in angerD. in the morning5. It can be inferred that classical Roman and Greek ideas were_______.A. imaginaryB. perspectiveC. impressionisticD. realisticMake a summary of the text.The style of Western art has changed __________, while Chinese art has changed ________. Art is _________ by the way of ___ and ______.During the Middle Ages, the main ____ of painters was to ________ _________ themes. Artists were ___________ creating ______ and _____for God. In the Renaissance, people became _______ more on _______and less on _______. Artists tried to paint ______ and ______ as they really were. Masaccio used __________ in his paintings which made people ________ they were looking through a hole in the wall __ a real scene. In the late 19th century, Europe changed __________ from a mostly __________ society to a mostly ________ one. The ____________ were the first to paint ________. They had to paint ______ and their paintings were not as _________as those of earlier painters. Today people accept _____________ paintings as the beginning of modern abstract. Some modern art is _______while some is _______.高二英语选修六Unit 1 Art Reading 参考答案(I)historical; headings; topic sentence1). religious symbols; respect and love; realistic2). Humanistic; Masaccio; the color richer & deeper3). Traditional; light and shadow; detailed4). bstract; certain qualities; shape; realistic; photographs(II) 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. T 6.TII. CDCADMake a summary of the text.many times；less often；influenced；life；beliefs；aim；represent religious；interested in；respect；love; focused;religion;humans; people;nature;perspective; convinced; at;a great deal; agricultural; industrial; impressionists; outdoors; quickly; detailed; impressionists'; realistic; abstract。